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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.IM2017★ 395 cited

Gaia Data Release 1: Catalogue validation

F. Arenou, X. Luri, C. Babusiaux +42

Before the publication of the Gaia Catalogue, the contents of the first data release have undergone multiple dedicated validation tests. These tests aim at analysing in-depth the C…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 80 cited

Gaia FGK Benchmark stars: Opening the black box of stellar element abundance determination

P. Jofre, U. Heiter, C. C. Worley +10

Gaia and its complementary spectroscopic surveys combined will yield the most comprehensive database of kinematic and chemical information of stars in the Milky Way. The Gaia FGK b…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 2.1k cited

Gaia Data Release 1. Summary of the astrometric, photometric, and survey properties

Gaia Collaboration, A. G. A. Brown, A. Vallenari +5

At about 1000 days after the launch of Gaia we present the first Gaia data release, Gaia DR1, consisting of astrometry and photometry for over 1 billion sources brighter than magni…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 7.1k cited

The Gaia mission

Gaia Collaboration

Gaia is a cornerstone mission in the science programme of the European Space Agency (ESA). The spacecraft construction was approved in 2006, following a study in which the original…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 96 cited

Cannibals in the thick disk: the young rich stars as evolved blue stragglers

P. Jofre, A. Jorissen, S. Van Eck +8

Spectro-seismic measurements of red giants enabled the recent discovery of stars in the thick disk that are more massive than 1.4 M_sun. While it has been claimed that most of thes…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 169 cited

Gaia FGK benchmark stars: abundances of alpha and iron-peak elements

P. Jofré, U. Heiter, C. Soubiran +26

In the current era of large spectroscopic surveys of the Milky Way, reference stars for calibrating astrophysical parameters and chemical abundances are of paramount importance. We…