The analysis of realistic Stellar Gaia mock catalogues. I. Red Clump Stars as tracers of the central bar

Merce Romero-Gomez, Francesca Figueras, Teresa Antoja +2

In this first paper we simulate the population of disc Red Clump stars to be observed by Gaia. We generate a set of test particles and we evolve it in a 3D barred Milky Way like ga…