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most citedGaia Data Release 2. Summary of the contents and survey properties

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astro-ph.IM2016★ 2.1k cited

Gaia Data Release 1. Summary of the astrometric, photometric, and survey properties

Gaia Collaboration, A. G. A. Brown, A. Vallenari +5

At about 1000 days after the launch of Gaia we present the first Gaia data release, Gaia DR1, consisting of astrometry and photometry for over 1 billion sources brighter than magni…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 7.1k cited

The Gaia mission

Gaia Collaboration

Gaia is a cornerstone mission in the science programme of the European Space Agency (ESA). The spacecraft construction was approved in 2006, following a study in which the original…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 59 cited

Realistic Detectability of Close Interstellar Comets

Nathaniel V. Cook, Darin Ragozzine, Mikael Granvik +1

During the planet formation process, billions of comets are created and ejected into interstellar space. The detection and characterization of such interstellar comets (also known…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 14 cited

Polarimetry of comets 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, 74P/Smirnova-Chernykh, and 152P/Helin-Lawrence

A. Stinson, S. Bagnulo, G. P. Tozzi +5

Aims. Polarimetric characteristics of comets at large heliocentric distances is a relatively unexplored area; we extend the idea by adding and analysing the data for three Jupiter…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 14 cited

Compact Planetary Nebulae in the Galactic Disk: Analysis of the Central Stars

Manuel Moreno-Ibáñez, Eva Villaver, Richard A. Shaw +1

We have obtained multi-wavelength observations of compact Galactic planetary nebulae (PNe) to probe post-Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) evolution from the onset of nebular ejection.…