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20152024
most citedThe Gaia mission

7.1k citations · 9.5k across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

astro-ph.IM2024★ 13 cited

The PLATO Mission

Heike Rauer, Conny Aerts, Juan Cabrera +842

PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) is ESA's M3 mission designed to detect and characterise extrasolar planets and perform asteroseismic monitoring of a large numb…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 91 cited

Gaia Data Release 3: The Galaxy in your preferred colours. Synthetic photometry from Gaia low-resolution spectra

Gaia Collaboration, P. Montegriffo, M. Bellazzini +27

Gaia Data Release 3 provides novel flux-calibrated low-resolution spectrophotometry for about 220 million sources in the wavelength range 330nm - 1050nm (XP spectra). Synthetic pho…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 115 cited

Gaia Data Release 1, Pre-processing and source list creation

C. Fabricius, U. Bastian, J. Portell +1

The first data release from the Gaia mission contains accurate positions and magnitudes for more than a billion sources, and proper motions and parallaxes for the majority of the 2…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 2.1k cited

Gaia Data Release 1. Summary of the astrometric, photometric, and survey properties

Gaia Collaboration, A. G. A. Brown, A. Vallenari +5

At about 1000 days after the launch of Gaia we present the first Gaia data release, Gaia DR1, consisting of astrometry and photometry for over 1 billion sources brighter than magni…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 7.1k cited

The Gaia mission

Gaia Collaboration

Gaia is a cornerstone mission in the science programme of the European Space Agency (ESA). The spacecraft construction was approved in 2006, following a study in which the original…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 32 cited

GaiaNIR: Combining optical and Near-Infra-Red (NIR) capabilities with Time-Delay-Integration (TDI) sensors for a future Gaia-like mission

David Hobbs, Erik Høg, Alcione Mora +22

ESA recently called for new "Science Ideas" to be investigated in terms of feasibility and technological developments -- for technologies not yet sufficiently mature. These ideas m…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 4 cited

Comment on "Evidence for dark matter in the inner Milky Way"

Stacy McGaugh, Federico Lelli, Marcel Pawlowski +21

This is a brief rebuttal to arXiv:1502.03821, which claims to provide the first observational proof of dark matter interior to the solar circle. We point out that this result is no…