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

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74 papers

astro-ph.IM2025

Why the Northern Hemisphere Needs a 30-40 m Telescope and the Science at Stake: Resolved Stellar Populations Studies in M31 and its Satellites

C. Gallart, E. Fernández-Alvar, A. B. A. Queiroz +48

A 30 m class optical/near-IR telescope in the Northern Hemisphere, equipped for diffraction-limited imaging and high-resolution, multi-object spectroscopy of faint stars, would ena…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

A new Gaia census of OB associations within 1 kpc

Alexis L. Quintana, Nicholas J. Wright, Lilly A. Kormann +6

OB associations are primordial tracers of star formation and Galactic structure. Originally defined about 80 years ago, their historical membership lists have been superseded thank…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Open clusters in the outer disc studied with MEGARA@GTC Auner 1 and Berkeley 102

J. Carbajo-Hijarrubia, R. Carrera, F. Anders +4

Open clusters offer crucial insights into stellar nucleosynthesis and the chemical evolution of the Galactic disc, as their ages and distances can be determined with higher accurac…

astro-ph.GA2025

The chemical enrichment histories across the Milky Way disk

Valeria Cerqui, Misha Haywood, Owain Snaith +2

The variation of metal production over time and its dilution in the interstellar medium depend on the star formation and gas accretion rates. Measuring age-chemistry relations acro…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 3 cited

Gaia FGK Benchmark Stars: spectral library, metallicities and abundances of and Fe-peak elements of the third version

L. Casamiquela, C. Soubiran, P. Jofré +14

The accurate determination of chemical abundances in stars plays a pivotal role in understanding stellar structure and evolution, nucleosynthesis, and the chemical enrichment histo…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 6 cited

New stellar age estimates using SPInS based on Gaia DR3 photometry and LAMOST DR8 abundances

L. Casamiquela, D. R. Reese, Y. Lebreton +8

Reliable stellar age estimates are fundamental for testing several problems in modern astrophysics, in particular since they set the time scales of Galactic dynamical and chemical…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 14 cited

Abundance ties: Nephele and the globular cluster population accreted with Cen. Based on APOGEE DR17 and Gaia EDR3

Giulia Pagnini, Paola Di Matteo, Misha Haywood +8

The peculiar Galactic globular cluster Centauri (NGC 5139) has drawn attention for its unique features - such as a high stellar mass and a broad distribution of chemical elemen…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 32 cited

Transferring spectroscopic stellar labels to 217 million Gaia DR3 XP stars with SHBoost

A. Khalatyan, F. Anders, C. Chiappini +14

In this paper, we explore the feasibility of using machine learning regression as a method of extracting basic stellar parameters and line-of-sight extinctions from spectro-photome…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 31 cited

OCCASO V. Chemical-abundance trends with Galactocentric distance and age

J. Carbajo-Hijarrubia, L. Casamiquela, R. Carrera +12

Context. Open clusters provide valuable information on stellar nucleosynthesis and the chemical evolution of the Galactic disc, as their age and distances can be measured more prec…

astro-ph.GA2024

How Gaia sheds light on the Milky Way star cluster population

T. Cantat-Gaudin, L. Casamiquela

Star clusters are among the first celestial objects catalogued by early astronomers. As simple and coeval populations, their study has been instrumental in charting the properties…

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.GA2024★ 8 cited

Exploring the dependence of chemical traits on metallicity: chemical trends for red giant stars with asteroseismic ages

S. Vitali, D. Slumstrup, P. Jofré +5

Given the massive spectroscopic surveys and the Gaia mission, the Milky Way has turned into a unique laboratory to be explored using abundance ratios that show a strong dependency…

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.SR2023

Gaia FGK Benchmark Stars: fundamental Teff and log g of the third version

Caroline Soubiran, Orlagh Creevey, Nadege Lagarde +8

Context. Large spectroscopic surveys devoted to the study of the Milky Way, including Gaia, use automated pipelines to massively determine the atmospheric parameters of millions of…

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.GA2023★ 67 cited

Spectroscopic age estimates for APOGEE red-giant stars: Precise spatial and kinematic trends with age in the Galactic disc

F. Anders, P. Gispert, B. Ratcliffe +12

Over the last few years, many studies have found an empirical relationship between the abundance of a star and its age. Here we estimate spectroscopic stellar ages for 178 825 red-…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 30 cited

A machine learning-based tool for open cluster membership determination in Gaia DR3

M. G. J. van Groeningen, A. Castro-Ginard, A. G. A. Brown +2

Membership studies characterising open clusters with Gaia data, most using DR2, are so far limited at magnitude G = 18 due to astrometric uncertainties at the faint end. Our goal i…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 40 cited

The multiplicity fraction in 202 open clusters from Gaia

J. Donada, F. Anders, C. Jordi +7

In this study, we estimate the fraction of binaries with high mass ratios for 202 open clusters in the extended solar neighbourhood (closer than 1.5 kpc from the Sun). This is one…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 211 cited

The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation

Shoko Jin, Scott C. Trager, Gavin B. Dalton +212

WEAVE, the new wide-field, massively multiplexed spectroscopic survey facility for the William Herschel Telescope, will see first light in late 2022. WEAVE comprises a new 2-degree…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 19 cited

Ultracool dwarfs in Gaia DR3

L. M. Sarro, A. Berihuete, R. L. Smart +36

Aims. In this work we use the Gaia DR3 set of ultracool dwarf candidates and complement the Gaia spectrophotometry with additional photometry in order to characterise its global pr…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 6 cited

Chemically Peculiar Stars in the Open Cluster Stock 2

Laia Casamiquela, Marwan Gebran, Marcel Agüeros +2

The recently re-discovered open cluster Stock 2, located roughly 375 pc away and about 400 Myr old, has the potential to be an exciting new testbed for our understanding of stellar…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 133 cited

The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey: Motivation, implementation, GIRAFFE data processing, analysis, and final data products

G. Gilmore, S. Randich, C. C. Worley +165

The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey is an ambitious project designed to obtain astrophysical parameters and elemental abundances for 100,000 stars, including large representat…