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

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34 papers

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

Cepheid Metallicity in the Leavitt Law (C-MetaLL) survey: IX. Metallicity dependence of Period-Wesenheit relations based on a homogeneous spectroscopic sample

V. Ripepi, E. Trentin, G. Catanzaro +8

The C-MetaLL project has provided homogeneous spectroscopic abundances of 290 Classical Cepheids (DCEPs) for which we have the intensity-averaged magnitudes in multiple optical and…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 3 cited

Learning novel representations of variable sources from multi-modal data via autoencoders

P. Huijse, J. De Ridder, L. Eyer +18

Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) published for the first time epoch photometry, BP/RP (XP) low-resolution mean spectra, and supervised classification results for millions of variable sour…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

The VMC survey -- LIII. Data release #7. Complete survey data and data from additional programmes

M. -R. L. Cioni, N. J. G. Cross, V. Ripepi +29

The near-infrared YJKs Visual and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) survey of the Magellanic Clouds (VMC) is complete and there are also data from additional programm…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

Give to Ursa Minor what is Ursa Minor's: an updated census of the RR Lyrae population in the Ursa Minor dwarf galaxy based on Gaia DR3

A. Garofalo, G. Clementini, F. Cusano +2

We use RR Lyrae stars identified by the Gaia third data release (DR3) to explore the outskirts of the Ursa Minor (UMi) dwarf spheroidal galaxy (dSph) and update the census of its v…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

An "alien" called Oosterhoff dichotomy?

E. Luongo, V. Ripepi, M. Marconi +4

In this letter we investigate the origin of the Oosterhoff dichotomy, considering recent discoveries related to several ancient merging events of external galaxies with the Milky W…

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.SR2023★ 3 cited

Cepheid Metallicity in the Leavitt Law (C- MetaLL) survey: IV. The metallicity dependence of Cepheid Period-Luminosity relations

E. Trentin, V. Ripepi, R. Molinaro +10

Classical Cepheids (DCEPs) play a fundamental role in the calibration of the extra-galactic distance ladder which eventually leads to the determination of the Hubble constant(…

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.IM2022★ 56 cited

Gaia Data Release 3: Cross-match of Gaia sources with variable objects from the literature

P. Gavras, L. Rimoldini, K. Nienartowicz +22

Context. In the current ever increasing data volumes of astronomical surveys, automated methods are essential. Objects of known classes from the literature are necessary for traini…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 143 cited

Gaia Data Release 3. Summary of the variability processing and analysis

L. Eyer, M. Audard, B. Holl +55

Context. Gaia has been in operations since 2014. The third Gaia data release expands from the early data release (EDR3) in 2020 by providing 34 months of multi-epoch observations t…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 2 cited

Gaia DR3: Specific processing and validation of all-sky RR Lyrae and Cepheid stars -- The RR Lyrae sample

G. Clementini, V. Ripepi, A. Garofalo +18

Gaia DR3 publishes a catalogue of full-sky RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) observed during the initial 34 months of science operations, that were processed through the Specific Object Study…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 92 cited

Gaia DR3: Specific processing and validation of all-sky RR Lyrae and Cepheid stars -- The Cepheid sample

V. Ripepi, G. Clementini, R. Molinaro +19

Context. Cepheids are pulsating stars that play a crucial role in several astrophysical contexts. Among the different types, the Classical Cepheids are fundamental tools for the ca…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 41 cited

Gaia Data Release 3: A Golden Sample of Astrophysical Parameters

Gaia Collaboration, O. L. Creevey, L. M. Sarro +445

Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) provides a wealth of new data products for the astronomical community to exploit, including astrophysical parameters for a half billion stars. In this wor…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 30 cited

Gaia Data Release 3: The Gaia Andromeda Photometric Survey

D. W. Evans, L. Eyer, G. Busso +14

Context. As part of Gaia Data Release 3 (Gaia DR3), epoch photometry has been released for 1.2 million sources centred on M31. This is a taster for Gaia Data Release 4 where all th…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 147 cited

Gaia Data Release 3: Mapping the asymmetric disc of the Milky Way

Gaia Collaboration, R. Drimmel, M. Romero-Gomez +453

With the most recent Gaia data release the number of sources with complete 6D phase space information (position and velocity) has increased to well over 33 million stars, while ste…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 42 cited

The VMC Survey -- XLVIII. Classical Cepheids unveil the 3D geometry of the LMC

V. Ripepi, L. Chemin, R. Molinaro +12

We employed the {\it VISTA near-infrared survey of the Magellanic System} (VMC), to analyse the light curves of Cepheid stars (DCEPs) in…

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…