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most citedDiscovery of a dormant 33 solar-mass black hole in pre-release Gaia astrometry

129 citations · 440 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Plato's view on supermassive black hole binaries: Exploring the faint limit of ESA's Plato space mission

Nicholas Jannsen, Pablo Huijse, Kevin Park +3

The search for supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) has, in recent years, seen the dawn of exploration with several hundred candidates claimed from photometric and spectroscop…

astro-ph.EP2026

The PLATO field selection process III. Selection of the Prime Sample for the LOPS2 field

V. Nascimbeni, G. Piotto, V. Granata +30

The PLanetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) mission will begin its four-year nominal mission in early 2027 by monitoring its Long-duration Observation Phase field at S…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

The PLATO Input Catalogue of targets (tPIC) for the first Long Pointing Field

M. Montalto, G. Piotto, P. M. Marrese +31

The ESA PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) mission is designed to detect terrestrial planets in the habitable zones of solar-type stars. Owing to telemetry constr…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 3 cited

Probing stellar rotation in the Pleiades with gravity-mode pulsators

D. J. Fritzewski, A. Kemp, G. Li +1

Due to their proximity, the Pleiades are an important benchmark open cluster. Despite its status, asteroseismic analyses of its members are rare. In particular, the gravity-mode (g…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 3 cited

Learning novel representations of variable sources from multi-modal data via autoencoders

P. Huijse, J. De Ridder, L. Eyer +18

Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) published for the first time epoch photometry, BP/RP (XP) low-resolution mean spectra, and supervised classification results for millions of variable sour…

astro-ph.SR2025

Asteroseismic predictions for a massive main-sequence merger product

J. Henneco, F. R. N. Schneider, M. Heller +2

The products of stellar mergers between two massive main-sequence (MS) stars appear as seemingly normal MS stars after a phase of thermal relaxation, if not for certain peculiariti…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 27 cited

The PLATO field selection process. II. Characterization of LOPS2, the first long-pointing field

V. Nascimbeni, G. Piotto, J. Cabrera +26

PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) is an ESA M-class mission to be launched by the end of 2026 to discover and characterize transiting planets around bright and n…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 5 cited

MOCKA -- A PLATO mock asteroseismic catalogue: Simulations for gravity-mode oscillators

N. Jannsen, A. Tkachenko, P. Royer +14

With ESA's PLATO space mission set for launch in December 2026, a new photometric legacy and a future of new scientific discoveries await. In this work we investigate PLATO's poten…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 7 cited

Variability in hot sub-luminous stars and binaries: Machine-learning analysis of Gaia DR3 multi-epoch photometry

P. Ranaivomanana, M. Uzundag, C. Johnston +3

Hot sub-luminous stars represent a population of stripped and evolved red giants that is located on the extreme horizontal branch. Since they exhibit a wide range of variability du…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 6 cited

Gaia/GSP-spec spectroscopic properties of gamma Doradus pulsators

P. de Laverny, A. Recio-Blanco, C. Aerts +1

Gaia/DR3 has provided a large sample of new g-mode pulsators, among which~11,600 are Gam Dor stars. This work present the spectroscopic parameters of these Gam Dor pulsators estima…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 15 cited

Mode identification and ensemble asteroseismology of 119 Cep stars detected by Gaia light curves and monitored by TESS

D. J. Fritzewski, M. Vanrespaille, C. Aerts +3

The Gaia mission detected many new candidate Cephei ( Cep) pulsators, whose variability classification has since been confirmed from Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (T…

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.SR2023★ 16 cited

Gaia Focused Product Release: Sources from Service Interface Function image analysis -- Half a million new sources in omega Centauri

Gaia Collaboration, K. Weingrill, A. Mints +400

Gaia's readout window strategy is challenged by very dense fields in the sky. Therefore, in addition to standard Gaia observations, full Sky Mapper (SM) images were recorded for ni…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 23 cited

Gaia Focused Product Release: Asteroid orbital solution. Properties and assessment

Gaia Collaboration, P. David, F. Mignard +2

Context. We report the exploitation of a sample of epoch astrometry for 157 000 asteroids, the same object in the Gaia Data Release 3, extended over the time coverage planned for t…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 7 cited

Gaia Focused Product Release: A catalogue of sources around quasars to search for strongly lensed quasars

Gaia Collaboration, A. Krone-Martins, C. Ducourant +398

Context. Strongly lensed quasars are fundamental sources for cosmology. The Gaia space mission covers the entire sky with the unprecedented resolution of " in the optical, ma…

astro-ph.SR2023

Gaia Focused Product Release: Radial velocity time series of long-period variables

Gaia Collaboration, M. Trabucchi, N. Mowlavi +403

The third Gaia Data Release (DR3) provided photometric time series of more than 2 million long-period variable (LPV) candidates. Anticipating the publication of full radial-velocit…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 19 cited

PlatoSim: An end-to-end PLATO camera simulator for modelling high-precision space-based photometry

N. Jannsen, J. De Ridder, D. Seynaeve +21

PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) is the ESA M3 space mission dedicated to detect and characterise transiting exoplanets including information from the asterosei…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 121 cited

Global stellar variability study in the field-of-view of the Kepler satellite

J. Debosscher, J. Blomme, C. Aerts +1

We present the results of an automated variability analysis of the Kepler public data measured in the first quarter (Q1) of the mission. In total, about 150 000 light curves have b…

astro-ph.IM2011★ 39 cited

Automated classification of periodic variable stars{Improved methodology for the automated classification of periodic variable stars}

J. Blomme, L. M. Sarro, F. T. O'Donovan +11

We present a novel automated methodology to detect and classify periodic variable stars in a large database of photometric time series. The methods are based on multivariate Bayesi…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 19 cited

Comparative clustering analysis of variable stars in the Hipparcos, OGLE Large Magellanic Cloud and CoRoT exoplanet databases

L. M. Sarro, J. Debosscher, C. Aerts +1

Context. Discovery of new variability classes in large surveys using multivariate statistics techniques such as clustering, relies heavily on the correct understanding of the distr…