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astro-ph2005
The design and performance of the Gaia photometric system
C. Jordi, E. Hoeg, A. G. A. Brown +32
The European Gaia astrometry mission is due for launch in 2011. Gaia will rely on the proven principles of ESA's Hipparcos mission to create an all-sky survey of about one billion…
astro-ph2002
AGB Stars as Tracers of Star Formation Histories: Implications for GAIA Photometry and Spectroscopy
A. Kucinskas, L. Lindegren, T. Tanabe +1
We argue that tracing star formation histories with ESA's space mission GAIA using main sequence turn-off (MSTO) point dating will mainly be effective in cases of mild interstellar…