activity
20142025
most citedGaia Data Release 2: Photometric content and validation

756 citations · 966 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

10 papers

astro-ph.IM2025

Encapsulating Textual Contents into a MOC data Structure for Advanced Applications

Giuseppe Greco, Thomas Boch, Pierre Fernique +12

Context. The Multi-Order Coverage map (MOC) is a widely adopted standard promoted by the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) to support data sharing and interoperabil…

astro-ph.HE2024

Isolated neutron stars as Science Validation for XMM2ATHENA: Ensuring robust data for future X-ray Astronomy

Adriana Mancini Pires, Christian Motch, Axel Schwope +9

The discovery of radio-quiet, X-ray thermally emitting isolated neutron stars (XINSs) in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey revealed a previously overlooked component of the neutron star pop…

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★ 18 cited

Machines Learn to Infer Stellar Parameters Just by Looking at a Large Number of Spectra

Nima Sedaghat, Martino Romaniello, Jonathan E. Carrick +1

Machine learning has been widely applied to clearly defined problems of astronomy and astrophysics. However, deep learning and its conceptual differences to classical machine learn…

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.IM2016

MocServer: What & Where in a few milliseconds

Pierre Fernique, Thomas Boch, Anais Oberto +1

The MocServer is an astronomical service dedicated to the manipulation of data set coverages. This server sets together about 15 000 spatial footprints associated to catalogs, data…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 1 cited

An Hierarchical Approach to Big Data

M. G. Allen, P. Fernique, T. Boch +7

The increasing volumes of astronomical data require practical methods for data exploration, access and visualisation. The Hierarchical Progressive Survey (HiPS) is a HEALPix based…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 66 cited

Probabilistic multi-catalogue positional cross-match

F. -X. Pineau, S. Derriere, C. Motch +8

We lay the foundations of a statistical framework for multi-catalogue cross-correlation and cross-identification based on explicit simplified catalogue models. A proper identificat…

astro-ph.IM2014

Building an Archive with Saada

Laurent Michel, Christian Motch, Hoan Ngoc Nguyen +1

Saada transforms a set of heterogeneous FITS files or VOTables of various categories (images, tables, spectra ...) in a database without writing code. Databases created with Saada…