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

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45 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Gaia Data Release 4: Modelling of drift-scan related effects in Gaia's point spread function

Nicholas Rowell, Michael Davidson, Nigel C. Hambly +5

An accurate model of the point spread function is required in order to estimate positions and brightnesses of stars in digitized images. The PSF of the Gaia space telescope is unus…

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.HE2023

Preparing for Gaia Searches for Optical Counterparts of Gravitational Wave Events during O4

Sumedha Biswas, Zuzanna Kostrzewa-Rutkowska, Peter G. Jonker +9

The discovery of gravitational wave (GW) events and the detection of electromagnetic counterparts from GW170817 has started the era of multimessenger GW astronomy.The field has bee…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 113 cited

Gaia Data Release 3: All-sky classification of 12.4 million variable sources into 25 classes

Lorenzo Rimoldini, Berry Holl, Panagiotis Gavras +31

Gaia DR3 contains 1.8 billion sources with G-band photometry, 1.5 billion of which with BP and RP photometry, complemented by positions on the sky, parallax, and proper motion. The…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 5 cited

Gaia-TESS synergy: Improving the identification of transit candidates

Aviad Panahi, Tsevi Mazeh, Shay Zucker +5

Context: The TESS team periodically issues a new list of transiting exoplanet candidates based on the analysis of the accumulating light curves obtained by the satellite. The list…

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…