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

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23 papers

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.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.IM2023★ 2 cited

Gaia data processing. SEAPipe: The source environment analysis pipeline

D. L. Harrison, F. van Leeuwen, P. J. Osborne +3

Aims. To describe two potential options for the Source Environment Analysis pipeline, SEAPipe, for the Gaia mission. This pipeline will enable the discovery of sources which are ne…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 181 cited

Gaia Data Release 3: External calibration of BP/RP low-resolution spectroscopic data

P. Montegriffo, F. De Angeli, R. Andrae +46

Context. Gaia Data Release 3 contains astrometry and photometry results for about 1.8 billion sources based on observations collected by the European Space Agency (ESA) Gaia satell…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 219 cited

Gaia Data Release 3: Processing and validation of BP/RP low-resolution spectral data

F. De Angeli, M. Weiler, P. Montegriffo +51

(Abridged) Blue (BP) and Red (RP) Photometer low-resolution spectral data is one of the exciting new products in Gaia Data Release 3 (Gaia DR3). We calibrate about 65 billion indiv…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 134 cited

Gaia Photometric Science Alerts

S. T. Hodgkin, D. L. Harrison, E. Breedt +108

Since July 2014, the Gaia mission has been engaged in a high-spatial-resolution, time-resolved, precise, accurate astrometric, and photometric survey of the entire sky. Aims: We pr…

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.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★ 806 cited

Gaia Early Data Release 3: Photometric content and validation

M. Riello, F. De Angeli, D. W. Evans +39

Gaia Early Data Release 3 contains astrometry and photometry results for about 1.8 billion sources based on observations collected by the ESA Gaia satellite during the first 34 mon…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 8 cited

Electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave events from Gaia

Z. Kostrzewa-Rutkowska, P. G. Jonker, S. T. Hodgkin +15

The recent discoveries of gravitational wave events and in one case also its electromagnetic (EM) counterpart allow us to study the Universe in a novel way. The increased sensitivi…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 8.6k cited

Gaia Data Release 2. Summary of the contents and survey properties

Gaia Collaboration, A. G. A. Brown, A. Vallenari +4

We present the second Gaia data release, Gaia DR2, consisting of astrometry, photometry, radial velocities, and information on astrophysical parameters and variability, for sources…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 20 cited

Gaia Data Release 2. Short-timescale variability processing and analysis

M. Roelens, L. Eyer, N. Mowlavi +13

The Gaia DR2 sample of short-timescale variable candidates results from the investigation of the first 22 months of Gaia photometry for a subsample of sources at the Gaia faint end…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 211 cited

Gaia Data Release 2: Properties and validation of the radial velocities

D. Katz, P. Sartoretti, M. Cropper +51

For Gaia DR2 (GDR2), 280 million spectra, collected by the RVS instrument on-board Gaia, were processed and median radial velocities were derived for 9.8 million sources brighter t…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 158 cited

Gaia Data Release 2: processing of the photometric data

M. Riello, F. De Angeli, D. W. Evans +13

The second Gaia data release is based on 22 months of mission data with an average of 0.9 billion individual CCD observations per day. A data volume of this size and granularity re…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 756 cited

Gaia Data Release 2: Photometric content and validation

D. W. Evans, M. Riello, F. De Angeli +9

Aims. We describe the photometric content of the second data release of the Gaia project (Gaia DR2) and its validation along with the quality of the data. Methods. The validation w…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 22 cited

Gaia Data Release 1: Validation of the photometry

D. W. Evans, M. Riello, F. De Angeli +12

Aims. The photometric validation of the Gaia DR1 release of the ESA Gaia mission is described and the quality of the data shown. Methods. This is carried out via an internal analys…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 60 cited

Gaia data release 1, the photometric data

F. van Leeuwen, D. W. Evans, F. De Angeli +91

Context. This paper presents an overview of the photometric data that are part of the first Gaia data release. Aims. The principles of the processing and the main characteristics o…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 69 cited

Gaia data release 1: Principles of the photometric calibration of the G band

J. M. Carrasco, D. W. Evans, P. Montegriffo +24

Context. Gaia is an ESA cornerstone mission launched on 19 December 2013 aiming to obtain the most complete and precise 3D map of our Galaxy by observing more than one billion sour…