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most citedThe Gaia mission

7.1k citations · 10.1k across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

astro-ph.SR2016★ 80 cited

Gaia FGK Benchmark stars: Opening the black box of stellar element abundance determination

P. Jofre, U. Heiter, C. C. Worley +10

Gaia and its complementary spectroscopic surveys combined will yield the most comprehensive database of kinematic and chemical information of stars in the Milky Way. The Gaia FGK b…

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.SR2016★ 514 cited

The Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE): Fifth Data Release

Andrea Kunder, Georges Kordopatis, Matthias Steinmetz +51

Data Release 5 (DR5) of the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) is the fifth data release from a magnitude-limited (9< I < 12) survey of stars randomly selected in the southern hemis…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 96 cited

Cannibals in the thick disk: the young rich stars as evolved blue stragglers

P. Jofre, A. Jorissen, S. Van Eck +8

Spectro-seismic measurements of red giants enabled the recent discovery of stars in the thick disk that are more massive than 1.4 M_sun. While it has been claimed that most of thes…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 16 cited

The Gaia-ESO Survey: Separating disk chemical substructures with cluster models

A. Rojas-Arriagada, A. Recio-Blanco, P. de Laverny +24

(Abridged) Recent spectroscopic surveys have begun to explore the Galactic disk system outside the solar neighborhood on the basis of large data samples. In this way, they provide…