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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.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★ 15 cited

Investigating Gaia EDR3 parallax systematics using asteroseismology of Cool Giant Stars observed by Kepler, K2, and TESS II. Deciphering Gaia parallax systematics using red clump stars

Saniya Khan, Richard I. Anderson, Andrea Miglio +2

We analyse Gaia EDR3 parallax systematics as a function of magnitude and sky location using a recently published catalogue of 12,500 asteroseismic red-giant star distances. We sele…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 11 cited

Investigating Gaia EDR3 parallax systematics using asteroseismology of Cool Giant Stars observed by Kepler, K2, and TESS I. Asteroseismic distances to 12,500 red-giant stars

Saniya Khan, Andrea Miglio, Emma Willett +10

Gaia EDR3 has provided unprecedented data that generate a lot of interest in the astrophysical community, despite the fact that systematics affect the reported parallaxes at the le…

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★ 4 cited

The eta Aquilae System: Radial Velocities and Astrometry in Search of eta Aql B

G. Fritz Benedict, Thomas G. Barnes, Nancy R. Evans +4

The classical Cepheid eta Aql was not included in past Leavitt Law work (Benedict et al. 2007) because of a presumed complicating orbit due to a known B9.8V companion. To determine…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 24 cited

The surface brightness - colour relations based on eclipsing binary stars and calibrated with Gaia EDR3

D. Graczyk, G. Pietrzyński, C. Gałan +23

The surface brightness -- colour relation (SBCR) is a basic tool in establishing precise and accurate distances within the Local Group. Detached eclipsing binary stars with accurat…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 340 cited

Gaia Early Data Release 3: The Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars

Gaia Collaboration, R. L. Smart, L. M. Sarro +420

We produce a clean and well-characterised catalogue of objects within 100\,pc of the Sun from the \G\ Early Data Release 3. We characterise the catalogue through comparisons to the…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 9 cited

Tomography of cool giant and supergiant star atmospheres III. Validation of the method on VLTI/AMBER observations of the Mira star S Ori

Kateryna Kravchenko, Markus Wittkowski, Alain Jorissen +5

The knowledge of the structure and dynamics of AGB-star atmospheres is crucial to better understand the mass loss. The tomographic method, that relies on the design of spectral mas…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 38 cited

Tomography of cool giant and supergiant star atmospheres II. Signature of convection in the atmosphere of the red supergiant star Cep

K. Kravchenko, A. Chiavassa, S. Van Eck +4

Red supergiants are cool massive stars and are the largest and the most luminous stars in the universe. They are characterized by irregular or semi-regular photometric variations,…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 33 cited

Multiplicity of Galactic Cepheids from long-baseline interferometry. IV. New detected companions from MIRC and PIONIER observations

A. Gallenne, P. Kervella, S. Borgniet +10

We aim at detecting and characterizing the main-sequence companions of a sample of known and suspected Galactic binary Cepheids. We used the multi-telescope interferometric combine…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 5 cited

CRIRES high-resolution infrared spectroscopy of the long-period Cepheid l Car

N. Nardetto, E. Poretti, A. Gallenne +17

The dynamical structure of the atmosphere of Cepheids has been well studied in the optical. Several authors have found very interesting spectral features in the J band, but little…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 135 cited

Gaia Data Release 2: Variable stars in the colour-absolute magnitude diagram

Gaia Collaboration, L. Eyer, L. Rimoldini +14

The ESA Gaia mission provides a unique time-domain survey for more than 1.6 billion sources with G ~ 21 mag. We showcase stellar variability across the Galactic colour-absolute mag…

astro-ph.SR2018

Gaia Data Release 2: Observational Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams

Gaia Collaboration, C. Babusiaux, F. van Leeuwen +450

We highlight the power of the Gaia DR2 in studying many fine structures of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (HRD). Gaia allows us to present many different HRDs, depending in partic…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 71 cited

Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the variability processing & analysis results

B. Holl, M. Audard, K. Nienartowicz +60

The Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2): we summarise the processing and results of the identification of variable source candidates of RR Lyrae stars, Cepheids, long period variables (LPVs)…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 22 cited

Tomography of cool giant and supergiant star atmospheres. I. Validation of the method

K. Kravchenko, S. Van Eck, A. Chiavassa +3

Cool giant and supergiant star atmospheres are characterized by complex velocity fields originating from convection and pulsation processes which are not fully understood yet. The…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 101 cited

Gaia Data Release 1. Testing the parallaxes with local Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars

Gaia Collaboration, G. Clementini, L. Eyer +588

Parallaxes for 331 classical Cepheids, 31 Type II Cepheids and 364 RR Lyrae stars in common between Gaia and the Hipparcos and Tycho-2 catalogues are published in Gaia Data Release…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 20 cited

A solar twin in the eclipsing binary LL Aqr

D. Graczyk, R. Smolec, K. Pavlovski +11

In the course of a project to study eclipsing binary stars in vinicity of the Sun, we found that the cooler component of LL Aqr is a solar twin candidate. This is the first known s…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 9 cited

The Araucaria Project. Precise physical parameters of the eclipsing binary IO Aqr

D. Graczyk, P. F. L. Maxted, G. Pietrzynski +11

Our aim is to precisely measure the physical parameters of the eclipsing binary IO Aqr and derive a distance to this system by applying a surface brightness - colour relation. Our…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 30 cited

The Araucaria Project. Accurate stellar parameters and distance to evolved eclipsing binary ASAS J180057-2333.8 in Sagittarius Arm

K. Suchomska, D. Graczyk, R. Smolec +11

We have analyzed the double-lined eclipsing binary system ASAS J180057-2333.8 from the All Sky Automated Survey (ASAS) catalogue . We measure absolute physical and orbital paramete…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 1 cited

New spectroscopic and polarimetric observations of the A0 supergiant HD92207

S. Hubrig, A. F. Kholtygin, M. Schöller +5

Our recent search for the presence of a magnetic field in the bright early A-type supergiant HD92207 using FORS2 in spectropolarimetric mode revealed the presence of a longitudinal…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 13 cited

Discovery of the spectroscopic binary nature of three bright southern Cepheids

L. Szabados, R. I. Anderson, A. Derekas +4

We present an analysis of spectroscopic radial velocity and photometric data of three bright Galactic Cepheids: LR Trianguli Australis (LR TrA), RZ Velorum (RZ Vel), and BG Velorum…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 70 cited

Multi-epoch high-resolution spectroscopy of SN2011fe - Linking the progenitor to its environment

F. Patat, M. A. Cordiner, N. L. J. Cox +10

This study attempts to establish a link between the reasonably well known nature of the progenitor of SN2011fe and its surrounding environment. This is done with the aim of enablin…