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

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46 papers

astro-ph.SR2025

Gaia DR3 Variable White Dwarfs vetted by ZTF

Timour Jestin, Thinh Nguyen, Laurent Eyer +6

The publications of Gaia DR2 and DR3 have brought major improvements in stellar astrometry and photometry, particularly regarding the description of the white dwarf sequence. Notab…

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.GA2024★ 27 cited

The 33 M black hole Gaia BH3 is part of the disrupted ED-2 star cluster

E. Balbinot, E. Dodd, T. Matsuno +19

The Gaia Collaboration has recently reported the detection of a 33 M black hole in a wide binary system located in the Solar neighbourhood. Here we explore the relationship…

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.SR2023★ 59 cited

Evolved Massive Stars at Low-metallicity V. Mass-Loss Rate of Red Supergiant Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud

Ming Yang, Alceste Z. Bonanos, Biwei Jiang +17

We assemble the most complete and clean red supergiant (RSG) sample (2,121 targets) so far in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) with 53 different bands of data to study the MLR of R…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 54 cited

Gaia Data Release 3: Gaia scan-angle dependent signals and spurious periods

B. Holl, C. Fabricius, J. Portell +23

Context: Gaia DR3 time series data may contain spurious signals related to the time-dependent scan angle. Aims: We aim to explain the origin of scan-angle dependent signals and how…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 114 cited

Gaia Data Release 3. The first Gaia catalogue of eclipsing binary candidates

N. Mowlavi, B. Holl, I. Lecœur-Taïbi +11

We present the first Gaia catalogue of eclipsing binary candidates released in Gaia DR3, describe its content, provide tips for its usage, estimate its quality, and show illustrati…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 113 cited

Gaia Data Release 3: All-sky classification of 12.4 million variable sources into 25 classes

Lorenzo Rimoldini, Berry Holl, Panagiotis Gavras +31

Gaia DR3 contains 1.8 billion sources with G-band photometry, 1.5 billion of which with BP and RP photometry, complemented by positions on the sky, parallax, and proper motion. The…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 25 cited

Gaia Data Release 3: The first Gaia catalogue of variable AGN

Maria I. Carnerero, Claudia M. Raiteri, Lorenzo Rimoldini +15

One of the novelties of the Gaia-DR3 with respect to the previous data releases is the publication of the multiband light curves of about 1 million AGN. The goal of this work was t…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 56 cited

Gaia Data Release 3: Cross-match of Gaia sources with variable objects from the literature

P. Gavras, L. Rimoldini, K. Nienartowicz +22

Context. In the current ever increasing data volumes of astronomical surveys, automated methods are essential. Objects of known classes from the literature are necessary for traini…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 14 cited

Gaia Data Release 3: Surface brightness profiles of galaxies and host galaxies of quasars

C. Ducourant, A. Krone-Martins, L. Galluccio +13

Since July 2014, the Gaia space mission has been continuously scanning the sky and observing the extragalactic Universe with unprecedented spatial resolution in the optical domain…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 143 cited

Gaia Data Release 3. Summary of the variability processing and analysis

L. Eyer, M. Audard, B. Holl +55

Context. Gaia has been in operations since 2014. The third Gaia data release expands from the early data release (EDR3) in 2020 by providing 34 months of multi-epoch observations t…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 42 cited

Gaia Data Release 3 Validating the classification of variable Young Stellar Object candidates

Gábor Marton, Péter Ábrahám, Lorenzo Rimoldini +14

Context. The Gaia third Data Release (DR3) presents the first catalogue of full-sky variable Young Stellar Object (YSO) candidates observed by the Gaia space telescope during the i…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 86 cited

Gaia Data Release 3: The second Gaia catalogue of Long-Period Variable candidates

T. Lebzelter, N. Mowlavi, I. Lecoeur-Taibi +9

The third Gaia Data Release, covering 34 months of data, includes the second Gaia catalogue of long-period variables (LPVs), with G variability amplitudes larger than 0.1 mag (5-95…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 35 cited

Gaia Data Release 3. Rotational modulation and patterns of colour variations in solar-like variables

E. Distefano, A. C. Lanzafame, E. Brugaletta +15

The Gaia third Data Release (DR3) presents a catalogue of 474\,026 stars with variability induced by magnetic activity. For each star, the catalogue provides a list of about 70 par…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 16 cited

Evolved Massive Stars at Low-metallicity IV. Using 1.6 m "H-bump" to identify red supergiant stars: a case study of NGC 6822

Ming Yang, Alceste Z. Bonanos, Biwei Jiang +9

We present a case study of using a novel method to identify red supergiant (RSG) candidates in NGC 6822, based on their 1.6 m "H-bump". We collected 32 bands of photometric data…

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.GA2021★ 99 cited

Gaia Early Data Release 3: The Galactic anticentre

Gaia Collaboration, T. Antoja, P. McMillan +417

We aim to demonstrate the scientific potential of the Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) for the study of the Milky Way structure and evolution. We used astrometric positions, proper…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 29 cited

Evolved Massive Stars at Low-metallicity III. A Source Catalog for the Large Magellanic Cloud

Ming Yang, Alceste Z. Bonanos, Biwei Jiang +9

We present a clean, magnitude-limited (IRAC1 or WISE115.0 mag) multiwavelength source catalog for the LMC. The catalog was built upon crossmatching () and deblending ($3…

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…