activity
20152024
most citedEstimating distances from parallaxes. V: Geometric and photogeometric distances to 1.47 billion stars in Gaia Early Data Release 3

2k citations · 6.5k across the 43 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

43 papers

physics.soc-ph2024★ 5 cited

Astronomy's climate emissions: Global travel to scientific meetings in 2019

Andrea Gokus, Knud Jahnke, Paul M Woods +11

Travel to academic conferences -- where international flights are the norm -- is responsible for a sizeable fraction of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with academic…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 83 cited

Gaia DR3: Apsis III -- Non-stellar content and source classification

L. Delchambre, C. A. L. Bailer-Jones, I. Bellas-Velidis +78

Context. As part of the third Gaia data release, we present the contributions of the non-stellar and classification modules from the eighth coordination unit (CU8) of the Data Proc…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 208 cited

Gaia Data Release 3: Analysis of the Gaia BP/RP spectra using the General Stellar Parameterizer from Photometry

R. Andrae, M. Fouesneau, R. Sordo +80

We present the General Stellar Parameterizer from Photometry (GSP-Phot), which is part of the astrophysical parameters inference system (Apsis). GSP-Phot is designed to produce a h…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 163 cited

Gaia Data Release 3: Apsis II -- Stellar Parameters

M. Fouesneau, Y. Frémat, R. Andrae +78

The third Gaia data release contains, beyond the astrometry and photometry, dispersed light for hundreds of millions of sources from the Gaia prism spectra (BP and RP) and the spec…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 223 cited

Gaia Data Release 3: Astrophysical parameters inference system (Apsis) I -- methods and content overview

O. L. Creevey, R. Sordo, F. Pailler +86

Gaia Data Release 3 contains a wealth of new data products for the community. Astrophysical parameters are a major component of this release. They were produced by the Astrophysica…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 30 cited

Gaia Data Release 3. Stellar chromospheric activity and mass accretion from Ca II IRT observed by the Radial Velocity Spectrometer

A. C. Lanzafame, E. Brugaletta, Y. Frémat +82

The Gaia Radial Velocity Spectrometer provides the unique opportunity of a spectroscopic analysis of millions of stars at medium-resolution in the near-infrared. This wavelength ra…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 252 cited

Gaia Data Release 3: Analysis of RVS spectra using the General Stellar Parametriser from spectroscopy

A. Recio-Blanco, P. de Laverny, P. A. Palicio +77

The chemo-physical parametrisation of stellar spectra is essential for understanding the nature and evolution of stars and of Galactic stellar populations. Gaia DR3 contains the pa…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 1 cited

A new third planet and the dynamical architecture of the HD33142 planetary system

Trifon Trifonov, Anna Wollbold, Martin Kürster +24

Based on recently-taken and archival HARPS, FEROS and HIRES radial velocities (RVs), we present evidence for a new planet orbiting the first ascent red giant star HD33142 (with an…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 27 cited

Astrophysical Parameters from Gaia DR2, 2MASS & AllWISE

M. Fouesneau, R. Andrae, T. Dharmawardena +3

Stellar physical and dynamical properties are essential knowledge to understanding the structure, formation, and evolution of our Galaxy. We produced an all-sky uniformly derived c…

astro-ph.GA2021

Neutron-capture elements record the ordered chemical evolution of the disc over time

Danny Horta, Melissa K. Ness, Jan Rybizki +2

An ensemble of chemical abundances probing different nucleosynthetic channels can be leveraged to build a comprehensive understanding of the chemical and structural evolution of th…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 43 cited

The challenge of simultaneously matching the observed diversity of chemical abundance patterns in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations

Tobias Buck, Jan Rybizki, Sven Buder +5

With the advent of large spectroscopic surveys the amount of high quality chemo-dynamical data in the Milky Way (MW) increased tremendously. Accurately and correctly capturing and…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 2k cited

Estimating distances from parallaxes. V: Geometric and photogeometric distances to 1.47 billion stars in Gaia Early Data Release 3

C. A. L. Bailer-Jones, J. Rybizki, M. Fouesneau +2

Stellar distances constitute a foundational pillar of astrophysics. The publication of 1.47 billion stellar parallaxes from Gaia is a major contribution to this. Yet despite Gaia's…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 13 cited

Gaia Early Data Release 3: Structure and properties of the Magellanic Clouds

Gaia Collaboration, X. Luri, L. Chemin +417

We compare the Gaia DR2 and Gaia EDR3 performances in the study of the Magellanic Clouds and show the clear improvements in precision and accuracy in the new release. We also show…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 117 cited

A classifier for spurious astrometric solutions in Gaia EDR3

Jan Rybizki, Gregory Green, Hans-Walter Rix +6

The Gaia early Data Release 3 has delivered exquisite astrometric data for 1.47 billion sources, which is revolutionizing many fields in astronomy. For a small fraction of these so…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 99 cited

Gaia Early Data Release 3: The Galactic anticentre

Gaia Collaboration, T. Antoja, P. McMillan +417

We aim to demonstrate the scientific potential of the Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) for the study of the Milky Way structure and evolution. We used astrometric positions, proper…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 340 cited

Gaia Early Data Release 3: The Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars

Gaia Collaboration, R. L. Smart, L. M. Sarro +420

We produce a clean and well-characterised catalogue of objects within 100\,pc of the Sun from the \G\ Early Data Release 3. We characterise the catalogue through comparisons to the…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 112 cited

Gaia Early Data Release 3: Acceleration of the solar system from Gaia astrometry

Gaia Collaboration, S. A. Klioner, F. Mignard +414

Context. Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3) provides accurate astrometry for about 1.6 million compact (QSO-like) extragalactic sources, 1.2 million of which have the best-quali…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 20 cited

Characterising the Gaia Radial Velocity sample selection function in its native photometry

Jan Rybizki, Hans-Walter Rix, Markus Demleitner +2

The Gaia DR2 radial velocity sample (GDR2RVS), which provides six-dimensional phase-space information on 7.2 million stars, is of great value for inferring properties of the Milky…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 43 cited

An astronomical institute's perspective on meeting the challenges of the climate crisis

Knud Jahnke, Christian Fendt, Morgan Fouesneau +10

Analysing greenhouse gas emissions of an astronomical institute is a first step in reducing its environmental impact. Here, we break down the emissions of the Max Planck Institute…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 13 cited

Data-Driven Stellar Models

Gregory M. Green, Hans-Walter Rix, Leon Tschesche +7

We develop a data-driven model to map stellar parameters (effective temperature, surface gravity and metallicity) accurately and precisely to broad-band stellar photometry. This mo…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 47 cited

A Gaia early DR3 mock stellar catalog: Galactic prior and selection function

Jan Rybizki, Markus Demleitner, Coryn Bailer-Jones +7

We present a mock stellar catalog, matching in volume, depth and data model the content of the planned Gaia early data release 3 (Gaia EDR3). We have generated our catalog (GeDR3mo…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 22 cited

From birth associations to field stars: mapping the small-scale orbit distribution in the Galactic disc

Johanna Coronado, Hans-Walter Rix, Wilma H. Trick +3

Stars born at the same time in the same place should have formed from gas of the same element composition. But most stars subsequently disperse from their birth siblings, in orbit…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 3 cited

Inferring Galactic Parameters from Chemical Abundances: A Multi-Star Approach

Oliver Henry Edward Philcox, Jan Rybizki

Constraining parameters such as the initial mass function high-mass slope and the frequency of type Ia supernovae is of critical importance in the ongoing quest to understand galac…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 8 cited

Voyage 2050 White Paper: All-Sky Visible and Near Infrared Space Astrometry

David Hobbs, Anthony Brown, Erik Høg +27

A new all-sky visible and Near-InfraRed (NIR) space astrometry mission with a wavelength cutoff in the K-band is not just focused on a single or small number of key science cases.…