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

8.6k citations · 11.4k across the 32 of their papers we have counts for

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33 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

Stellar masses and ages in Gaia Data Release 4 from the Final Luminosity Age Mass Estimator algorithm

Orlagh L. Creevey, Laia Casamiquela, Yveline Lebreton +23

The masses and ages of stars are key quantities for understanding exoplanetary, stellar, and galactic evolution. In the context of Gaia, these parameters provide insights into the…

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

Gaia Focused Product Release: Spatial distribution of two diffuse interstellar bands

Gaia Collaboration, M. Schultheis, H. Zhao +15

Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are absorption features seen in optical and infrared spectra of stars that are probably caused by large and complex molecules in the ISM. Here we…

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.GA2022★ 21 cited

The cerium content of the Milky Way as revealed by Gaia DR3 GSP-Spec abundances

G. Contursi, P. de Laverny, A. Recio-Blanco +12

The recent Gaia Third Data Release contains a homogeneous analysis of millions of high-quality Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) stellar spectra by the GSP-Spec module. This led t…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 83 cited

Gaia DR3: Apsis III -- Non-stellar content and source classification

L. Delchambre, C. A. L. Bailer-Jones, I. Bellas-Velidis +78

Context. As part of the third Gaia data release, we present the contributions of the non-stellar and classification modules from the eighth coordination unit (CU8) of the Data Proc…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 58 cited

Stellar ages, masses, extinctions and orbital parameters based on spectroscopic parameters of Gaia DR3

G. Kordopatis, M. Schultheis, P. J. McMillan +13

Gaia DR3 provides radial velocities for 33 million stars and spectroscopically derived atmospheric parameters for more than five million targets. When combined with the astrometric…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 208 cited

Gaia Data Release 3: Analysis of the Gaia BP/RP spectra using the General Stellar Parameterizer from Photometry

R. Andrae, M. Fouesneau, R. Sordo +80

We present the General Stellar Parameterizer from Photometry (GSP-Phot), which is part of the astrophysical parameters inference system (Apsis). GSP-Phot is designed to produce a h…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 163 cited

Gaia Data Release 3: Apsis II -- Stellar Parameters

M. Fouesneau, Y. Frémat, R. Andrae +78

The third Gaia data release contains, beyond the astrometry and photometry, dispersed light for hundreds of millions of sources from the Gaia prism spectra (BP and RP) and the spec…

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★ 30 cited

Gaia Data Release 3. Stellar chromospheric activity and mass accretion from Ca II IRT observed by the Radial Velocity Spectrometer

A. C. Lanzafame, E. Brugaletta, Y. Frémat +82

The Gaia Radial Velocity Spectrometer provides the unique opportunity of a spectroscopic analysis of millions of stars at medium-resolution in the near-infrared. This wavelength ra…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 252 cited

Gaia Data Release 3: Analysis of RVS spectra using the General Stellar Parametriser from spectroscopy

A. Recio-Blanco, P. de Laverny, P. A. Palicio +77

The chemo-physical parametrisation of stellar spectra is essential for understanding the nature and evolution of stars and of Galactic stellar populations. Gaia DR3 contains the pa…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 4 cited

Solid confirmation of the broad DIB around 864.8 nm using stacked Gaia-RVS spectra

H. Zhao, M. Schultheis, T. Zwitter +26

Studies of the correlation between different diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are important for exploring their origins. However, the Gaia-RVS spectral window between 846 and 870…

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.GA2020★ 23 cited

The AMBRE Project: Spectrum normalisation influence on Mg abundances in the metal-rich Galactic disc

Pablo Santos-Peral, Alejandra Recio-Blanco, Patrick de Laverny +2

The abundance of α-elements provides an important fossil signature in Galactic archaeology to trace the chemical evolution of the different disc populations. High-precision chemica…

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.EP2018★ 102 cited

Gaia Data Release 2: Observations of solar system objects

Gaia Collaboration, F. Spoto, P. Tanga +4

The Gaia spacecraft of the European Space Agency (ESA) has been securing observations of solar system objects (SSOs) since the beginning of its operations. Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 479 cited

Gaia Data Release 2: first stellar parameters from Apsis

Rene Andrae, Morgan Fouesneau, Orlagh Creevey +13

The second Gaia data release (Gaia-DR2) contains, beyond the astrometry, three-band photometry for 1.38 billion sources. We have used these three broad bands to infer stellar effec…

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.SR2018★ 71 cited

Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the variability processing & analysis results

B. Holl, M. Audard, K. Nienartowicz +60

The Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2): we summarise the processing and results of the identification of variable source candidates of RR Lyrae stars, Cepheids, long period variables (LPVs)…