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

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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.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.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.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.…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 37 cited

The Detailed Science Case for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer, 2019 edition

The MSE Science Team, Carine Babusiaux, Maria Bergemann +258

(Abridged) The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) is an end-to-end science platform for the design, execution and scientific exploitation of spectroscopic surveys. It will unvei…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 311 cited

4MOST: Project overview and information for the First Call for Proposals

R. S. de Jong, O. Agertz, A. Agudo Berbel +335

We introduce the 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST), a new high-multiplex, wide-field spectroscopic survey facility under development for the four-metre-class Vis…