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

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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.GA2023

Metal-poor stars with disc-like orbits. Traces of the Galactic Disc at very early epochs?

M. Bellazzini, D. Massari, E. Ceccarelli +5

We use photometric metallicity estimates for about 700000 stars in the surroundings of the Sun, with very accurate distances and 3-D motions measures from Gaia DR3, to explore the…

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.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.GA2023★ 47 cited

The Pristine survey -- XXIII. Data Release 1 and an all-sky metallicity catalogue based on Gaia DR3 BP/RP spectro-photometry

Nicolas F. Martin, Else Starkenburg, Zhen Yuan +38

We used the spectro-photometric information of ~219 million stars from Gaia's DR3 to calculate synthetic, narrow-band, metallicity-sensitive CaHK magnitudes that mimic the observat…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 19 cited

Photometric metallicity for 694233 Galactic giant stars from Gaia DR3 synthetic Stromgren photometry. Metallicity distribution functions of halo sub-structures

Bellazzini M., Massari D., De Angeli F. +4

We use the calibrations by Calamida et al. and by Hilker et al., and the standardised synthetic photometry in the v, b, and y Stromgren passbands from Gaia DR3 BP/RP spectra, to ob…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 19 cited

Ultracool dwarfs in Gaia DR3

L. M. Sarro, A. Berihuete, R. L. Smart +36

Aims. In this work we use the Gaia DR3 set of ultracool dwarf candidates and complement the Gaia spectrophotometry with additional photometry in order to characterise its global pr…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 181 cited

Gaia Data Release 3: External calibration of BP/RP low-resolution spectroscopic data

P. Montegriffo, F. De Angeli, R. Andrae +46

Context. Gaia Data Release 3 contains astrometry and photometry results for about 1.8 billion sources based on observations collected by the European Space Agency (ESA) Gaia satell…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 219 cited

Gaia Data Release 3: Processing and validation of BP/RP low-resolution spectral data

F. De Angeli, M. Weiler, P. Montegriffo +51

(Abridged) Blue (BP) and Red (RP) Photometer low-resolution spectral data is one of the exciting new products in Gaia Data Release 3 (Gaia DR3). We calibrate about 65 billion indiv…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 223 cited

Gaia Data Release 3: Astrophysical parameters inference system (Apsis) I -- methods and content overview

O. L. Creevey, R. Sordo, F. Pailler +86

Gaia Data Release 3 contains a wealth of new data products for the community. Astrophysical parameters are a major component of this release. They were produced by the Astrophysica…

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.IM2021★ 115 cited

Internal calibration of Gaia BP/RP low-resolution spectra

J. M. Carrasco, M. Weiler, C. Jordi +6

The full third Gaia data release will provide the calibrated spectra obtained with the blue and red Gaia slit-less spectrophotometers. The main challenge when facing Gaia spectral…

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★ 806 cited

Gaia Early Data Release 3: Photometric content and validation

M. Riello, F. De Angeli, D. W. Evans +39

Gaia Early Data Release 3 contains astrometry and photometry results for about 1.8 billion sources based on observations collected by the ESA Gaia satellite during the first 34 mon…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 8.6k cited

Gaia Data Release 2. Summary of the contents and survey properties

Gaia Collaboration, A. G. A. Brown, A. Vallenari +4

We present the second Gaia data release, Gaia DR2, consisting of astrometry, photometry, radial velocities, and information on astrophysical parameters and variability, for sources…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 20 cited

Gaia Data Release 2. Short-timescale variability processing and analysis

M. Roelens, L. Eyer, N. Mowlavi +13

The Gaia DR2 sample of short-timescale variable candidates results from the investigation of the first 22 months of Gaia photometry for a subsample of sources at the Gaia faint end…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 211 cited

Gaia Data Release 2: Properties and validation of the radial velocities

D. Katz, P. Sartoretti, M. Cropper +51

For Gaia DR2 (GDR2), 280 million spectra, collected by the RVS instrument on-board Gaia, were processed and median radial velocities were derived for 9.8 million sources brighter t…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 158 cited

Gaia Data Release 2: processing of the photometric data

M. Riello, F. De Angeli, D. W. Evans +13

The second Gaia data release is based on 22 months of mission data with an average of 0.9 billion individual CCD observations per day. A data volume of this size and granularity re…

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.IM2017★ 22 cited

Gaia Data Release 1: Validation of the photometry

D. W. Evans, M. Riello, F. De Angeli +12

Aims. The photometric validation of the Gaia DR1 release of the ESA Gaia mission is described and the quality of the data shown. Methods. This is carried out via an internal analys…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 69 cited

Gaia data release 1: Principles of the photometric calibration of the G band

J. M. Carrasco, D. W. Evans, P. Montegriffo +24

Context. Gaia is an ESA cornerstone mission launched on 19 December 2013 aiming to obtain the most complete and precise 3D map of our Galaxy by observing more than one billion sour…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 33 cited

GIANO-TNG spectroscopy of red supergiants in the young star cluster RSGC2

L. Origlia, E. Oliva, R. Maiolino +19

The inner disk of the Galaxy has a number of young star clusters dominated by red supergiants that are heavily obscured by dust extinction and observable only at infrared wavelengt…