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On-orbit performance of the Gaia CCDs at L2
C. Crowley, R. Kohley, N. C. Hambly +19
The European Space Agency's Gaia satellite was launched into orbit around L2 in December 2013 with a payload containing 106 large-format scientific CCDs. The primary goal of the mi…
Enabling Gaia observations of naked-eye stars
J. Martín-Fleitas, A. Mora, J. Sahlmann +5
The ESA Gaia space astrometry mission will perform an all-sky survey of stellar objects complete in the nominal magnitude range G = [6.0 - 20.0]. The stars with G lower than 6.0, i…
The Gaia payload uplink commanding system
A. Mora, A. Abreu, N. Cheek +7
This document describes the uplink commanding system for the ESA Gaia mission. The need for commanding, the main actors, data flow and systems involved are described. The system ar…
Gaia on-board metrology: basic angle and best focus
A. Mora, M. Biermann, A. G. A. Brown +21
The Gaia payload ensures maximum passive stability using a single material, SiC, for most of its elements. Dedicated metrology instruments are, however, required to carry out two f…
Gaia broad band photometry
C. Jordi, M. Gebran, J. M. Carrasco +7
The scientific community needs to be prepared to analyse the data from Gaia, one of the most ambitious ESA space missions, to be launched in 2012. The purpose of this paper is to p…