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

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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.SR2021★ 22 cited

The Gaia spectrophotometric standard stars survey -- V. Preliminary flux tables for the calibration of Gaia DR2 and (E)DR3

E. Pancino, N. Sanna, G. Altavilla +15

We present the flux tables of the spectro-photometric standard stars (SPSS) used to calibrate in flux the Gaia DR2 and (E)DR3 data releases. The latest SPSS grid version contains 1…

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.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.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★ 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.SR2017★ 101 cited

Gaia Data Release 1. Testing the parallaxes with local Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars

Gaia Collaboration, G. Clementini, L. Eyer +588

Parallaxes for 331 classical Cepheids, 31 Type II Cepheids and 364 RR Lyrae stars in common between Gaia and the Hipparcos and Tycho-2 catalogues are published in Gaia Data Release…

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…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 65 cited

The Gaia-ESO Survey: calibration strategy

E. Pancino, the Gaia-ESO Survey collaboration

The Gaia-ESO survey (GES) is now in its fifth and last year of observations, and has already produced tens of thousands of high-quality spectra of stars in all Milky Way components…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 33 cited

The Gaia spectrophotometric standard stars survey - III. Short-term variability monitoring

S. Marinoni, E. Pancino, G. Altavilla +14

We present the results of the short-term constancy monitoring of candidate Gaia Spectrophotometric Standard Stars (SPSS). We obtained time series of typically 1.24 hour - with samp…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 21 cited

The Gaia spectrophotometric standard stars survey -II. Instrumental effects of six ground-based observing campaigns

G. Altavilla, S. Marinoni, E. Pancino +16

The Gaia SpectroPhotometric Standard Stars (SPSS) survey started in 2006, it was awarded almost 450 observing nights, and accumulated almost 100,000 raw data frames, with both phot…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 39 cited

The double RGB in M 2: C, N, Sr and Ba abundances

C. Lardo, E. Pancino, A. Mucciarelli +6

The globular cluster M 2 has a photometrically detected double red giant branch (RGB) sequence. We investigate here the chemical differences between the two RGBs in order to gain i…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 61 cited

The Gaia spectrophotometric standard stars survey. I. Preliminary results

E. Pancino, G. Altavilla, S. Marinoni +23

We describe two ground based observing campaigns aimed at building a grid of approximately 200 spectrophotometric standard stars (SPSS), with an internal ~1% precision and tied to…