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

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57 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

XP-TEAL: Gaia XP Tool for Emission and Absorption Lines II. Gaia-HELIX catalogue of H emitters in Gaia BP/RP spectra

S. Malhotra, M. Weiler, F. Anders +8

Context: With Gaia's third Data Release (DR3), low-resolution BP/RP (XP) spectra became available for more than 219 million sources. In previous work, we developed a fast method fo…

astro-ph.GA2026

The high-altitude, inner-disc, and chemically peculiar open cluster UBC 1052

Judit Donada, Laia Casamiquela, Friedrich Anders +8

Out of all the discovered open clusters (OCs) that are located in the inner part of the Galaxy, only a small fraction has been observed with high-resolution spectroscopy. An intrig…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Stellar masses and mass ratios for Gaia open cluster members

Sagar Malhotra, Alfred Castro-Ginard, Friedrich Anders +7

Context: Unresolved binaries in star clusters can bias stellar and cluster mass estimates, making their proper treatment essential for studying cluster dynamics and evolution. Aims…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 4 cited

Astrometric view of companions in the inner dust cavities of protoplanetary disks

Miguel Vioque, Richard A. Booth, Enrico Ragusa +16

Protoplanetary disks with inner dust cavities (often referred to as "transition disks") are potential signposts of planet formation. We use Gaia astrometry to search for planetary…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

The selection function of the Gaia DR3 open cluster census

Emily L. Hunt, Tristan Cantat-Gaudin, Friedrich Anders +4

Open clusters are among the most useful and widespread tracers of Galactic structure. The completeness of the Galactic open cluster census, however, remains poorly understood. For…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 8 cited

The completeness of the open cluster census towards the Galactic anticentre

Emily L. Hunt, Tristan Cantat-Gaudin, Friedrich Anders +9

Open clusters have long been used as tracers of Galactic structure. However, without a selection function to describe the completeness of the cluster census, it is difficult to qua…

astro-ph.EP2025

A planetary-mass candidate imaged in the Young Suns Exoplanet Survey

Pengyu Liu, Matthew A. Kenworthy, Beth A. Biller +26

Directly imaged exoplanets in wide orbits challenge current gas giant formation theories. They need to form quickly and acquire enough material before the disk dissipates, which ca…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 14 cited

Detection and Characterisation of Giant Planets with Gaia Astrometry

A. L. Wallace, A. R. Casey, A. G. A. Brown +1

Astrometric observations with Gaia are expected to play a valuable role in future exoplanet surveys. With current data from Gaia's third data release (DR3), we are sensitive to per…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

The realm of Aurora. Density distribution of metal-poor giants in the heart of the Galaxy

Evgeny P. Kurbatov, Vasily Belokurov, Sergey Koposov +11

The innermost portions of the Milky Way's stellar halo have avoided scrutiny until recently. The lack of wide-area survey data, made it difficult to reconstruct an uninterrupted vi…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 6 cited

GaiaUnlimited: The old stellar disc of the Milky Way as traced by the Red Clump

Shourya Khanna, Jie Yu, Ronald Drimmel +9

We present an exploration of the Milky Way's structural parameters using an all-sky sample of RC giants to map the stellar density from the Galactic disc beyond 3 kpc. These evolve…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 86 cited

Gaia DR3 detectability of unresolved binary systems

Alfred Castro-Ginard, Zephyr Penoyre, Andrew R. Casey +10

Gaia can not individually resolve very close binary systems, however, the collected data can still be used to identify them. A powerful indicator of stellar multiplicity is the sou…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 129 cited

Discovery of a dormant 33 solar-mass black hole in pre-release Gaia astrometry

Gaia Collaboration, P. Panuzzo, T. Mazeh +412

Gravitational waves from black-hole merging events have revealed a population of extra-galactic BHs residing in short-period binaries with masses that are higher than expected base…

astro-ph.GA2024

Uniting Gaia and APOGEE to unveil the cosmic chemistry of the Milky Way disc

Tristan Cantat-Gaudin, Morgan Fouesneau, Hans-Walter Rix +6

The spatial distribution of Galactic stars with different chemical abundances encodes information on the processes that drove the formation and evolution of the Milky Way. Survey s…

astro-ph.GA2023

The bar pattern speed of the Large Magellanic Cloud

Ó. Jiménez-Arranz, L. Chemin, M. Romero-Gómez +6

Context: The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) internal kinematics have been studied in unprecedented depth thanks to the excellent quality of the Gaia mission data, revealing the disc'…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 16 cited

Gaia Focused Product Release: Sources from Service Interface Function image analysis -- Half a million new sources in omega Centauri

Gaia Collaboration, K. Weingrill, A. Mints +400

Gaia's readout window strategy is challenged by very dense fields in the sky. Therefore, in addition to standard Gaia observations, full Sky Mapper (SM) images were recorded for ni…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 23 cited

Gaia Focused Product Release: Asteroid orbital solution. Properties and assessment

Gaia Collaboration, P. David, F. Mignard +2

Context. We report the exploitation of a sample of epoch astrometry for 157 000 asteroids, the same object in the Gaia Data Release 3, extended over the time coverage planned for t…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 7 cited

Gaia Focused Product Release: A catalogue of sources around quasars to search for strongly lensed quasars

Gaia Collaboration, A. Krone-Martins, C. Ducourant +398

Context. Strongly lensed quasars are fundamental sources for cosmology. The Gaia space mission covers the entire sky with the unprecedented resolution of " in the optical, ma…

astro-ph.SR2023

Gaia Focused Product Release: Radial velocity time series of long-period variables

Gaia Collaboration, M. Trabucchi, N. Mowlavi +403

The third Gaia Data Release (DR3) provided photometric time series of more than 2 million long-period variable (LPV) candidates. Anticipating the publication of full radial-velocit…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 17 cited

Constraints on the Galactic Centre environment from \textit{Gaia} hypervelocity stars III: Insights on a possible companion to Sgr A*

Fraser A. Evans, Alexander Rasskazov, Amber Remmelzwaal +4

We consider a scenario in which Sgr A* is in a massive black hole binary (MBHB) with an as-of-yet undetected supermassive or intermediate-mass black hole companion. Dynamical encou…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 33 cited

Estimating the selection function of Gaia DR3 sub-samples

A. Castro-Ginard, A. G. A. Brown, Z. Kostrzewa-Rutkowska +9

Understanding which sources are present in an astronomical catalogue and which are not is crucial for the accurate interpretation of astronomical data. In particular, for the multi…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 30 cited

A machine learning-based tool for open cluster membership determination in Gaia DR3

M. G. J. van Groeningen, A. Castro-Ginard, A. G. A. Brown +2

Membership studies characterising open clusters with Gaia data, most using DR2, are so far limited at magnitude G = 18 due to astrometric uncertainties at the faint end. Our goal i…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 40 cited

The multiplicity fraction in 202 open clusters from Gaia

J. Donada, F. Anders, C. Jordi +7

In this study, we estimate the fraction of binaries with high mass ratios for 202 open clusters in the extended solar neighbourhood (closer than 1.5 kpc from the Sun). This is one…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 211 cited

The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation

Shoko Jin, Scott C. Trager, Gavin B. Dalton +212

WEAVE, the new wide-field, massively multiplexed spectroscopic survey facility for the William Herschel Telescope, will see first light in late 2022. WEAVE comprises a new 2-degree…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 80 cited

An empirical model of the Gaia DR3 selection function

Tristan Cantat-Gaudin, Morgan Fouesneau, Hans-Walter Rix +11

Interpreting and modelling astronomical catalogues requires an understanding of the catalogues' completeness or selection function: objects of what properties had a chance to end u…