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most citedThe Gaia mission

7.1k citations · 10k across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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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.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.SR2014★ 42 cited

STEP: The VST survey of the SMC and the Magellanic Bridge. I. Overview and first results

V. Ripepi, M. Cignoni, M. Tosi +23

STEP (the SMC in Time: Evolution of a Prototype interacting late-type dwarf galaxy) is a Guaranteed Time Observation survey being performed at the VST (the ESO VLT Survey Telescope…

astro-ph1999★ 357 cited

Distances, ages, and epoch of formation of globular clusters

Eugenio Carretta, Raffaele Gratton, Gisella Clementini +1

We review the results on distances and absolute ages of galactic globular clusters (GCs) obtained after the release of the Hipparcos catalogue. Several methods for the Population I…

astro-ph1997★ 294 cited

Ages of Globular Clusters from Hipparcos Parallaxes of Local Subdwarfs

R. G. Gratton, F. Fusi Pecci, E. Carretta +3

We report here initial but still strongly conclusive results on absolute ages of galactic globular clusters (GGCs). This study is based on high precision trigonometric parallaxes f…