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Assessment of PLATO Science Performance
Juan Cabrera, Heike Rauer, Reza Samadi +121
The PLATO mission is scheduled for launch early 2027. In this paper we present an overview of the performance drivers for the mission at the time where all flight models of the cam…
Gaia Data Release 2: The astrometric solution
L. Lindegren, J. Hernandez, A. Bombrun +87
Gaia Data Release 2 (Gaia DR2) contains results for 1693 million sources in the magnitude range 3 to 21 based on observations collected by the European Space Agency Gaia satellite…
On-orbit performance of the Gaia CCDs at L2
C. Crowley, R. Kohley, N. C. Hambly +19
The European Space Agency's Gaia satellite was launched into orbit around L2 in December 2013 with a payload containing 106 large-format scientific CCDs. The primary goal of the mi…
Radiation effects on the Gaia CCDs after 30 months at L2
Cian Crowley, Asier Abreu, Ralf Kohley +2
Since the launch of ESA's Gaia satellite in December 2013, the 106 large-format scientific CCDs onboard have been operating at L2. Due to a combination of the high-precision measur…
Enabling science with Gaia observations of naked-eye stars
J. Sahlmann, J. Martín-Fleitas, A. Mora +3
ESA's Gaia space astrometry mission is performing an all-sky survey of stellar objects. At the beginning of the nominal mission in July 2014, an operation scheme was adopted that e…
The Gaia payload uplink commanding system
A. Mora, A. Abreu, N. Cheek +7
This document describes the uplink commanding system for the ESA Gaia mission. The need for commanding, the main actors, data flow and systems involved are described. The system ar…