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1. Gaia Data Release 3 Apsis. II. Stellar parameters

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Fouesneau, M., Fremat, Y., Andrae, R., Korn, Andreas, Soubiran, C., Kordopatis, G., Vallenari, A., Heiter, U., Creevey, O. L., Sarro, L. M., de laverny, P., Lanzafame, A. C., Lobel, A., Sordo, R., Rybizki, J., Slezak, I., Alvarez, M. A., Drimmel, R., Garabato, D., Delchambre, L., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Hatzidimitriou, D., Lorca, A., Le Fustec, Y., Pailler, F., Mary, N., Robin, C., Utrilla, E., Aramburu, A. Abreu, Bakker, J., Bellas-Velidis, I., Bijaoui, A., Blomme, R., Bouret, J. -C, Brouillet, N., Brugaletta, E., Burlacu, A., Carballo, R., Casamiquela, L., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Dafonte, C., Demouchy, C., Dharmawardena, T. E., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Lebreton, Y., Licata, E. L., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Livanou, E., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Manteiga, M., Marocco, F., Martayan, C., Marshall, D. J., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Riclet, F., Santovena, R., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Silvelo, A., Smart, R. L., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., Zorec, J., Fouesneau, M., Fremat, Y., Andrae, R., Korn, Andreas, Soubiran, C., Kordopatis, G., Vallenari, A., Heiter, U., Creevey, O. L., Sarro, L. M., de laverny, P., Lanzafame, A. C., Lobel, A., Sordo, R., Rybizki, J., Slezak, I., Alvarez, M. A., Drimmel, R., Garabato, D., Delchambre, L., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Hatzidimitriou, D., Lorca, A., Le Fustec, Y., Pailler, F., Mary, N., Robin, C., Utrilla, E., Aramburu, A. Abreu, Bakker, J., Bellas-Velidis, I., Bijaoui, A., Blomme, R., Bouret, J. -C, Brouillet, N., Brugaletta, E., Burlacu, A., Carballo, R., Casamiquela, L., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Dafonte, C., Demouchy, C., Dharmawardena, T. E., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Lebreton, Y., Licata, E. L., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Livanou, E., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Manteiga, M., Marocco, F., Martayan, C., Marshall, D. J., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Riclet, F., Santovena, R., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Silvelo, A., Smart, R. L., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., and Zorec, J.

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Context. The third Gaia data release (Gaia DR3) contains, beyond the astrometry and photometry, dispersed light for hundreds of millions of sources from the Gaia prism spectra (BP and RP) and the spectrograph (RVS). This data release opens a new window on the chemo-dynamical properties of stars in our Galaxy, essential knowledge for understanding the structure, formation, and evolution of the Milky Way. Aims. To provide insight into the physical properties of Milky Way stars, we used these data to produce a uniformly derived all-sky catalogue of stellar astrophysical parameters: atmospheric properties (T-e ff, log g, [M /H], [alpha/Fe], activity index, emission lines, and rotation), 13 chemical abundance estimates, evolution characteristics (radius, age, mass, and bolometric luminosity), distance, and dust extinction. Methods. We developed the astrophysical parameter inference system (Apsis) pipeline to infer astrophysical parameters of Gaia objects by analysing their astrometry, photometry, BP /RP, and RVS spectra. We validate our results against those from other works in the literature, including benchmark stars, interferometry, and asteroseismology. Here we assess the stellar analysis performance from Apsis statistically. Results. We describe the quantities we obtained, including the underlying assumptions and the limitations of our results. We provide guidance and identify regimes in which our parameters should and should not be used. Conclusions. Despite some limitations, this is the most extensive catalogue of uniformly inferred stellar parameters to date. They comprise T-eff, log g, and [M/H] (470 million using BP/RP, 6 million using RVS), radius (470 million), mass (140 million), age (120 million), chemical abundances (5 million), di ffuse interstellar band analysis (half a million), activity indices (2 million), H ff equivalent widths (200 million), and further classifications of spectral types (220 million) and emission-line stars (50 thousand). More preci

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2. Gaia Data Release 3 Apsis. II. Stellar parameters

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Fouesneau, M., Fremat, Y., Andrae, R., Korn, Andreas, Soubiran, C., Kordopatis, G., Vallenari, A., Heiter, U., Creevey, O. L., Sarro, L. M., de laverny, P., Lanzafame, A. C., Lobel, A., Sordo, R., Rybizki, J., Slezak, I., Alvarez, M. A., Drimmel, R., Garabato, D., Delchambre, L., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Hatzidimitriou, D., Lorca, A., Le Fustec, Y., Pailler, F., Mary, N., Robin, C., Utrilla, E., Aramburu, A. Abreu, Bakker, J., Bellas-Velidis, I., Bijaoui, A., Blomme, R., Bouret, J. -C, Brouillet, N., Brugaletta, E., Burlacu, A., Carballo, R., Casamiquela, L., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Dafonte, C., Demouchy, C., Dharmawardena, T. E., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Lebreton, Y., Licata, E. L., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Livanou, E., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Manteiga, M., Marocco, F., Martayan, C., Marshall, D. J., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Riclet, F., Santovena, R., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Silvelo, A., Smart, R. L., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., Zorec, J., Fouesneau, M., Fremat, Y., Andrae, R., Korn, Andreas, Soubiran, C., Kordopatis, G., Vallenari, A., Heiter, U., Creevey, O. L., Sarro, L. M., de laverny, P., Lanzafame, A. C., Lobel, A., Sordo, R., Rybizki, J., Slezak, I., Alvarez, M. A., Drimmel, R., Garabato, D., Delchambre, L., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Hatzidimitriou, D., Lorca, A., Le Fustec, Y., Pailler, F., Mary, N., Robin, C., Utrilla, E., Aramburu, A. Abreu, Bakker, J., Bellas-Velidis, I., Bijaoui, A., Blomme, R., Bouret, J. -C, Brouillet, N., Brugaletta, E., Burlacu, A., Carballo, R., Casamiquela, L., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Dafonte, C., Demouchy, C., Dharmawardena, T. E., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Lebreton, Y., Licata, E. L., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Livanou, E., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Manteiga, M., Marocco, F., Martayan, C., Marshall, D. J., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Riclet, F., Santovena, R., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Silvelo, A., Smart, R. L., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., and Zorec, J.

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Context. The third Gaia data release (Gaia DR3) contains, beyond the astrometry and photometry, dispersed light for hundreds of millions of sources from the Gaia prism spectra (BP and RP) and the spectrograph (RVS). This data release opens a new window on the chemo-dynamical properties of stars in our Galaxy, essential knowledge for understanding the structure, formation, and evolution of the Milky Way. Aims. To provide insight into the physical properties of Milky Way stars, we used these data to produce a uniformly derived all-sky catalogue of stellar astrophysical parameters: atmospheric properties (T-e ff, log g, [M /H], [alpha/Fe], activity index, emission lines, and rotation), 13 chemical abundance estimates, evolution characteristics (radius, age, mass, and bolometric luminosity), distance, and dust extinction. Methods. We developed the astrophysical parameter inference system (Apsis) pipeline to infer astrophysical parameters of Gaia objects by analysing their astrometry, photometry, BP /RP, and RVS spectra. We validate our results against those from other works in the literature, including benchmark stars, interferometry, and asteroseismology. Here we assess the stellar analysis performance from Apsis statistically. Results. We describe the quantities we obtained, including the underlying assumptions and the limitations of our results. We provide guidance and identify regimes in which our parameters should and should not be used. Conclusions. Despite some limitations, this is the most extensive catalogue of uniformly inferred stellar parameters to date. They comprise T-eff, log g, and [M/H] (470 million using BP/RP, 6 million using RVS), radius (470 million), mass (140 million), age (120 million), chemical abundances (5 million), di ffuse interstellar band analysis (half a million), activity indices (2 million), H ff equivalent widths (200 million), and further classifications of spectral types (220 million) and emission-line stars (50 thousand). More preci

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3. Gaia Data Release 3 Apsis. II. Stellar parameters

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Fouesneau, M., Fremat, Y., Andrae, R., Korn, Andreas, Soubiran, C., Kordopatis, G., Vallenari, A., Heiter, U., Creevey, O. L., Sarro, L. M., de laverny, P., Lanzafame, A. C., Lobel, A., Sordo, R., Rybizki, J., Slezak, I., Alvarez, M. A., Drimmel, R., Garabato, D., Delchambre, L., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Hatzidimitriou, D., Lorca, A., Le Fustec, Y., Pailler, F., Mary, N., Robin, C., Utrilla, E., Aramburu, A. Abreu, Bakker, J., Bellas-Velidis, I., Bijaoui, A., Blomme, R., Bouret, J. -C, Brouillet, N., Brugaletta, E., Burlacu, A., Carballo, R., Casamiquela, L., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Dafonte, C., Demouchy, C., Dharmawardena, T. E., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Lebreton, Y., Licata, E. L., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Livanou, E., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Manteiga, M., Marocco, F., Martayan, C., Marshall, D. J., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Riclet, F., Santovena, R., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Silvelo, A., Smart, R. L., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., Zorec, J., Fouesneau, M., Fremat, Y., Andrae, R., Korn, Andreas, Soubiran, C., Kordopatis, G., Vallenari, A., Heiter, U., Creevey, O. L., Sarro, L. M., de laverny, P., Lanzafame, A. C., Lobel, A., Sordo, R., Rybizki, J., Slezak, I., Alvarez, M. A., Drimmel, R., Garabato, D., Delchambre, L., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Hatzidimitriou, D., Lorca, A., Le Fustec, Y., Pailler, F., Mary, N., Robin, C., Utrilla, E., Aramburu, A. Abreu, Bakker, J., Bellas-Velidis, I., Bijaoui, A., Blomme, R., Bouret, J. -C, Brouillet, N., Brugaletta, E., Burlacu, A., Carballo, R., Casamiquela, L., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Dafonte, C., Demouchy, C., Dharmawardena, T. E., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Lebreton, Y., Licata, E. L., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Livanou, E., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Manteiga, M., Marocco, F., Martayan, C., Marshall, D. J., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Riclet, F., Santovena, R., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Silvelo, A., Smart, R. L., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., and Zorec, J.

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Context. The third Gaia data release (Gaia DR3) contains, beyond the astrometry and photometry, dispersed light for hundreds of millions of sources from the Gaia prism spectra (BP and RP) and the spectrograph (RVS). This data release opens a new window on the chemo-dynamical properties of stars in our Galaxy, essential knowledge for understanding the structure, formation, and evolution of the Milky Way. Aims. To provide insight into the physical properties of Milky Way stars, we used these data to produce a uniformly derived all-sky catalogue of stellar astrophysical parameters: atmospheric properties (T-e ff, log g, [M /H], [alpha/Fe], activity index, emission lines, and rotation), 13 chemical abundance estimates, evolution characteristics (radius, age, mass, and bolometric luminosity), distance, and dust extinction. Methods. We developed the astrophysical parameter inference system (Apsis) pipeline to infer astrophysical parameters of Gaia objects by analysing their astrometry, photometry, BP /RP, and RVS spectra. We validate our results against those from other works in the literature, including benchmark stars, interferometry, and asteroseismology. Here we assess the stellar analysis performance from Apsis statistically. Results. We describe the quantities we obtained, including the underlying assumptions and the limitations of our results. We provide guidance and identify regimes in which our parameters should and should not be used. Conclusions. Despite some limitations, this is the most extensive catalogue of uniformly inferred stellar parameters to date. They comprise T-eff, log g, and [M/H] (470 million using BP/RP, 6 million using RVS), radius (470 million), mass (140 million), age (120 million), chemical abundances (5 million), di ffuse interstellar band analysis (half a million), activity indices (2 million), H ff equivalent widths (200 million), and further classifications of spectral types (220 million) and emission-line stars (50 thousand). More preci

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4. Apsis. III. Non-stellar content and source classification

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Delchambre, L., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Bellas-Velidis, I., Drimmel, R., Garabato, D., Carballo, R., Hatzidimitriou, D., Marshall, D. J., Andrae, R., Dafonte, C., Livanou, E., Fouesneau, M., Licata, E. L., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Manteiga, M., Robin, C., Silvelo, A., Aramburu, A. Abreu, Alvarez, M. A., Bakker, J., Bijaoui, A., Brouillet, N., Brugaletta, E., Burlacu, A., Casamiquela, L., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Creevey, O. L., Dapergolas, A., de laverny, P., Demouchy, C., Dharmawardena, T. E., Edvardsson, Bengt, Fremat, Y., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gavel, Alvin, Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Heiter, Ulrike, Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Kordopatis, G., Korn, Andreas, Lanzafame, A. C., Lebreton, Y., Lobel, A., Lorca, A., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Marocco, F., Mary, N., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Pailler, F., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Panem, C., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Riclet, F., Rybizki, J., Santovena, R., Sarro, L. M., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Slezak, I., Smart, R. L., Sordo, R., Soubiran, C., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Vallenari, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., Zorec, J., Delchambre, L., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Bellas-Velidis, I., Drimmel, R., Garabato, D., Carballo, R., Hatzidimitriou, D., Marshall, D. J., Andrae, R., Dafonte, C., Livanou, E., Fouesneau, M., Licata, E. L., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Manteiga, M., Robin, C., Silvelo, A., Aramburu, A. Abreu, Alvarez, M. A., Bakker, J., Bijaoui, A., Brouillet, N., Brugaletta, E., Burlacu, A., Casamiquela, L., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Creevey, O. L., Dapergolas, A., de laverny, P., Demouchy, C., Dharmawardena, T. E., Edvardsson, Bengt, Fremat, Y., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gavel, Alvin, Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Heiter, Ulrike, Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Kordopatis, G., Korn, Andreas, Lanzafame, A. C., Lebreton, Y., Lobel, A., Lorca, A., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Marocco, F., Mary, N., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Pailler, F., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Panem, C., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Riclet, F., Rybizki, J., Santovena, R., Sarro, L. M., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Slezak, I., Smart, R. L., Sordo, R., Soubiran, C., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Vallenari, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., and Zorec, J.

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Context: As part of the third Gaia Data Release, we present the contributions of the non-stellar and classification modules from the eighth coordination unit (CU8) of the Data Processing and Analysis Consortium, which is responsible for the determination of source astrophysical parameters using Gaia data. This is the third in a series of three papers describing the work done within CU8 for this release. Aims: For each of the five relevant modules from CU8, we summarise their objectives, the methods they employ, their performance, and the results they produce for Gaia DR3. We further advise how to use these data products and highlight some limitations. Methods: The Discrete Source Classifier (DSC) module provides classification probabilities associated with five types of sources: quasars, galaxies, stars, white dwarfs, and physical binary stars. A subset of these sources are processed by the Outlier Analysis (OA) module, which performs an unsupervised clustering analysis, and then associates labels with the clusters to complement the DSC classification. The Quasi Stellar Object Classifier (QSOC) and the Unresolved Galaxy Classifier (UGC) determine the redshifts of the sources classified as quasar and galaxy by the DSC module. Finally, the Total Galactic Extinction (TGE) module uses the extinctions of individual stars determined by another CU8 module to determine the asymptotic extinction along all lines of sight for Galactic latitudes |b| > 5 degrees. Results: Gaia DR3 includes 1591 million sources with DSC classifications; 56 million sources to which the OA clustering is applied; 1.4 million sources with redshift estimates from UGC; 6.4 million sources with QSOC redshift; and 3.1 million level 9 HEALPixes of size 0 :013 deg(2) where the extinction is evaluated by TGE. Conclusions: Validation shows that results are in good agreement with values from external catalogues; for example 90% of the QSOC redshifts have absolute error lower than 0:1 for sources with empty

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5. Gaia Data Release 3 : Analysis of the Gaia BP/RP spectra using the General Stellar Parameterizer from Photometry

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Andrae, R., Fouesneau, M., Sordo, R., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Dharmawardena, T. E., Rybizki, J., De Angeli, F., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Marshall, D. J., Drimmel, R., Korn, Andreas, Soubiran, C., Brouillet, N., Casamiquela, L., Rix, H. -W, Aramburu, A. Abreu, Alvarez, M. A., Bakker, J., Bellas-Velidis, I., Bijaoui, A., Brugaletta, E., Burlacu, A., Carballo, R., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Creevey, O. L., Dafonte, C., Dapergolas, A., De laverny, P., Delchambre, L., Demouchy, C., Edvardsson, Bengt, Fremat, Y., Garabato, D., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gavel, Alvin, Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Hatzidimitriou, D., Heiter, Ulrike, Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Kordopatis, G., Lanzafame, A. C., Lebreton, Y., Licata, E. L., Livanou, E., Lobel, A., Lorca, A., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Manteiga, M., Marocco, F., Mary, N., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Pailler, F., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Panem, C., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Riclet, F., Robin, C., Santovena, R., Sarro, L. M., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Silvelo, A., Slezak, I., Smart, R. L., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Vallenari, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., Zorec, J., Andrae, R., Fouesneau, M., Sordo, R., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Dharmawardena, T. E., Rybizki, J., De Angeli, F., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Marshall, D. J., Drimmel, R., Korn, Andreas, Soubiran, C., Brouillet, N., Casamiquela, L., Rix, H. -W, Aramburu, A. Abreu, Alvarez, M. A., Bakker, J., Bellas-Velidis, I., Bijaoui, A., Brugaletta, E., Burlacu, A., Carballo, R., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Creevey, O. L., Dafonte, C., Dapergolas, A., De laverny, P., Delchambre, L., Demouchy, C., Edvardsson, Bengt, Fremat, Y., Garabato, D., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gavel, Alvin, Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Hatzidimitriou, D., Heiter, Ulrike, Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Kordopatis, G., Lanzafame, A. C., Lebreton, Y., Licata, E. L., Livanou, E., Lobel, A., Lorca, A., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Manteiga, M., Marocco, F., Mary, N., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Pailler, F., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Panem, C., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Riclet, F., Robin, C., Santovena, R., Sarro, L. M., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Silvelo, A., Slezak, I., Smart, R. L., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Vallenari, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., and Zorec, J.

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Context: The astrophysical characterisation of sources is among the major new data products in the third Gaia Data Release (DR3). In particular, there are stellar parameters for 471 million sources estimated from low-resolution BP /RP spectra. Aims: We present the General Stellar Parameterizer from Photometry (GSP-Phot), which is part of the astrophysical parameters inference system (Apsis). GSP-Phot is designed to produce a homogeneous catalogue of parameters for hundreds of millions of single non-variable stars based on their astrometry, photometry, and low-resolution BP/RP spectra. These parameters are effective temperature, surface gravity, metallicity, absolute MG magnitude, radius, distance, and extinction for each star. Methods: GSP-Phot uses a Bayesian forward-modelling approach to simultaneously fit the BP /RP spectrum, parallax, and apparent G magnitude. A major design feature of GSP-Phot is the use of the apparent flux levels of BP /RP spectra to derive, in combination with isochrone models, tight observational constraints on radii and distances. We carefully validate the uncertainty estimates by exploiting repeat Gaia observations of the same source. Results: The data release includes GSP-Phot results for 471 million sources with G < 19. Typical differences to literature values are 110K for T-eff and 0.2-0.25 for log g, but these depend strongly on data quality. In particular, GSP-Phot results are significantly better for stars with good parallax measurements (pi/sigma(pi) > 20), mostly within 2 kpc. Metallicity estimates exhibit substantial biases compared to literature values and are only useful at a qualitative level. However, we provide an empirical calibration of our metallicity estimates that largely removes these biases. Extinctions A(0) and A(BP) show typical di fferences from reference values of 0.07-0.09 mag. MCMC samples of the parameters are also available for 95% of the sources. Conclusions: GSP-Phot provides a homogeneous catalogue of

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6. Gaia Data Release 3 : Stellar chromospheric activity and mass accretion from Ca II IRT observed by the Radial Velocity Spectrometer

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Lanzafame, A. C., Brugaletta, E., Fremat, Y., Sordo, R., Creevey, O. L., Andretta, V., Scandariato, G., Busa, I., Distefano, E., Korn, Andreas, de laverny, P., Recio-Blanco, A., Aramburu, A. Abreu, Alvarez, M. A., Andrae, R., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Bakker, J., Bellas-Velidis, I., Bijaoui, A., Brouillet, N., Burlacu, A., Carballo, R., Casamiquela, L., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Dafonte, C., Dapergolas, A., Delchambre, L., Demouchy, C., Dharmawardena, T. E., Drimmel, R., Edvardsson, Bengt, Fouesneau, M., Garabato, D., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gavel, Alvin, Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Hatzidimitriou, D., Heiter, Ulrike, Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Kordopatis, G., Lebreton, Y., Licata, E. L., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Livanou, E., Lobel, A., Lorca, A., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Manteiga, M., Marocco, F., Marshall, D. J., Mary, N., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Pailler, F., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Panem, C., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Riclet, F., Robin, C., Rybizki, J., Santovena, R., Sarro, L. M., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Silvelo, A., Slezak, I., Smart, R. L., Soubiran, C., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Vallenari, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., Zorec, J., Lanzafame, A. C., Brugaletta, E., Fremat, Y., Sordo, R., Creevey, O. L., Andretta, V., Scandariato, G., Busa, I., Distefano, E., Korn, Andreas, de laverny, P., Recio-Blanco, A., Aramburu, A. Abreu, Alvarez, M. A., Andrae, R., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Bakker, J., Bellas-Velidis, I., Bijaoui, A., Brouillet, N., Burlacu, A., Carballo, R., Casamiquela, L., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Dafonte, C., Dapergolas, A., Delchambre, L., Demouchy, C., Dharmawardena, T. E., Drimmel, R., Edvardsson, Bengt, Fouesneau, M., Garabato, D., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gavel, Alvin, Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Hatzidimitriou, D., Heiter, Ulrike, Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Kordopatis, G., Lebreton, Y., Licata, E. L., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Livanou, E., Lobel, A., Lorca, A., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Manteiga, M., Marocco, F., Marshall, D. J., Mary, N., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Pailler, F., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Panem, C., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Riclet, F., Robin, C., Rybizki, J., Santovena, R., Sarro, L. M., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Silvelo, A., Slezak, I., Smart, R. L., Soubiran, C., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Vallenari, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., and Zorec, J.

Abstract

Context: The Gaia Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) provides the unique opportunity of a spectroscopic analysis of millions of stars at medium resolution (lambda/Delta lambda similar to 11 500) in the near-infrared (845 872 nm). This wavelength range includes the Ca ii infrared triplet (IRT) at 850.03, 854.44, and 866.45 nm, which is a good indicator of magnetic activity in the chromosphere of late-type stars. Aims: Here we present the method devised for inferring the Gaia stellar activity index from the analysis of the Ca ii IRT in the RVS spectrum, together with its scientific validation. Methods: The Gaia stellar activity index is derived from the Ca ii IRT excess equivalent width with respect to a reference spectrum, taking the projected rotational velocity (v sin i) into account. We performed scientific validation of the Gaia stellar activity index by deriving a R'(IRT) index, which is largely independent of the photospheric parameters, and considering the correlation with the R'(HK) index for a sample of stars. A sample of well-studied pre-main-sequence (PMS) stars is considered to identify the regime in which the Gaia stellar activity index may be a ffected by mass accretion. The position of these stars in the colour-magnitude diagram and the correlation with the amplitude of the photometric rotational modulation is also scrutinised. Results: Gaia DR3 contains a stellar activity index derived from the Ca ii IRT for some 2 x 10(6) stars in the Galaxy. This represents a `gold mine' for studies on stellar magnetic activity and mass accretion in the solar vicinity. Three regimes of the chromospheric stellar activity are identified, confirming suggestions made by previous authors based on much smaller R-HK(') datasets. The highest stellar activity regime is associated with PMS stars and RS CVn systems, in which activity is enhanced by tidal interaction. Some evidence of a bimodal distribution in main sequence (MS) stars with T-eff >= 5000K is also found, which

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7. Gaia Data Release 3 : Analysis of the Gaia BP/RP spectra using the General Stellar Parameterizer from Photometry

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Andrae, R., Fouesneau, M., Sordo, R., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Dharmawardena, T. E., Rybizki, J., De Angeli, F., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Marshall, D. J., Drimmel, R., Korn, Andreas, Soubiran, C., Brouillet, N., Casamiquela, L., Rix, H. -W, Aramburu, A. Abreu, Alvarez, M. A., Bakker, J., Bellas-Velidis, I., Bijaoui, A., Brugaletta, E., Burlacu, A., Carballo, R., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Creevey, O. L., Dafonte, C., Dapergolas, A., De laverny, P., Delchambre, L., Demouchy, C., Edvardsson, Bengt, Fremat, Y., Garabato, D., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gavel, Alvin, Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Hatzidimitriou, D., Heiter, Ulrike, Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Kordopatis, G., Lanzafame, A. C., Lebreton, Y., Licata, E. L., Livanou, E., Lobel, A., Lorca, A., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Manteiga, M., Marocco, F., Mary, N., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Pailler, F., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Panem, C., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Riclet, F., Robin, C., Santovena, R., Sarro, L. M., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Silvelo, A., Slezak, I., Smart, R. L., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Vallenari, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., Zorec, J., Andrae, R., Fouesneau, M., Sordo, R., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Dharmawardena, T. E., Rybizki, J., De Angeli, F., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Marshall, D. J., Drimmel, R., Korn, Andreas, Soubiran, C., Brouillet, N., Casamiquela, L., Rix, H. -W, Aramburu, A. Abreu, Alvarez, M. A., Bakker, J., Bellas-Velidis, I., Bijaoui, A., Brugaletta, E., Burlacu, A., Carballo, R., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Creevey, O. L., Dafonte, C., Dapergolas, A., De laverny, P., Delchambre, L., Demouchy, C., Edvardsson, Bengt, Fremat, Y., Garabato, D., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gavel, Alvin, Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Hatzidimitriou, D., Heiter, Ulrike, Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Kordopatis, G., Lanzafame, A. C., Lebreton, Y., Licata, E. L., Livanou, E., Lobel, A., Lorca, A., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Manteiga, M., Marocco, F., Mary, N., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Pailler, F., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Panem, C., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Riclet, F., Robin, C., Santovena, R., Sarro, L. M., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Silvelo, A., Slezak, I., Smart, R. L., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Vallenari, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., and Zorec, J.

Abstract

Context: The astrophysical characterisation of sources is among the major new data products in the third Gaia Data Release (DR3). In particular, there are stellar parameters for 471 million sources estimated from low-resolution BP /RP spectra. Aims: We present the General Stellar Parameterizer from Photometry (GSP-Phot), which is part of the astrophysical parameters inference system (Apsis). GSP-Phot is designed to produce a homogeneous catalogue of parameters for hundreds of millions of single non-variable stars based on their astrometry, photometry, and low-resolution BP/RP spectra. These parameters are effective temperature, surface gravity, metallicity, absolute MG magnitude, radius, distance, and extinction for each star. Methods: GSP-Phot uses a Bayesian forward-modelling approach to simultaneously fit the BP /RP spectrum, parallax, and apparent G magnitude. A major design feature of GSP-Phot is the use of the apparent flux levels of BP /RP spectra to derive, in combination with isochrone models, tight observational constraints on radii and distances. We carefully validate the uncertainty estimates by exploiting repeat Gaia observations of the same source. Results: The data release includes GSP-Phot results for 471 million sources with G < 19. Typical differences to literature values are 110K for T-eff and 0.2-0.25 for log g, but these depend strongly on data quality. In particular, GSP-Phot results are significantly better for stars with good parallax measurements (pi/sigma(pi) > 20), mostly within 2 kpc. Metallicity estimates exhibit substantial biases compared to literature values and are only useful at a qualitative level. However, we provide an empirical calibration of our metallicity estimates that largely removes these biases. Extinctions A(0) and A(BP) show typical di fferences from reference values of 0.07-0.09 mag. MCMC samples of the parameters are also available for 95% of the sources. Conclusions: GSP-Phot provides a homogeneous catalogue of

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8. Apsis. III. Non-stellar content and source classification

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Delchambre, L., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Bellas-Velidis, I., Drimmel, R., Garabato, D., Carballo, R., Hatzidimitriou, D., Marshall, D. J., Andrae, R., Dafonte, C., Livanou, E., Fouesneau, M., Licata, E. L., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Manteiga, M., Robin, C., Silvelo, A., Aramburu, A. Abreu, Alvarez, M. A., Bakker, J., Bijaoui, A., Brouillet, N., Brugaletta, E., Burlacu, A., Casamiquela, L., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Creevey, O. L., Dapergolas, A., de laverny, P., Demouchy, C., Dharmawardena, T. E., Edvardsson, Bengt, Fremat, Y., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gavel, Alvin, Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Heiter, Ulrike, Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Kordopatis, G., Korn, Andreas, Lanzafame, A. C., Lebreton, Y., Lobel, A., Lorca, A., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Marocco, F., Mary, N., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Pailler, F., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Panem, C., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Riclet, F., Rybizki, J., Santovena, R., Sarro, L. M., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Slezak, I., Smart, R. L., Sordo, R., Soubiran, C., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Vallenari, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., Zorec, J., Delchambre, L., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Bellas-Velidis, I., Drimmel, R., Garabato, D., Carballo, R., Hatzidimitriou, D., Marshall, D. J., Andrae, R., Dafonte, C., Livanou, E., Fouesneau, M., Licata, E. L., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Manteiga, M., Robin, C., Silvelo, A., Aramburu, A. Abreu, Alvarez, M. A., Bakker, J., Bijaoui, A., Brouillet, N., Brugaletta, E., Burlacu, A., Casamiquela, L., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Creevey, O. L., Dapergolas, A., de laverny, P., Demouchy, C., Dharmawardena, T. E., Edvardsson, Bengt, Fremat, Y., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gavel, Alvin, Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Heiter, Ulrike, Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Kordopatis, G., Korn, Andreas, Lanzafame, A. C., Lebreton, Y., Lobel, A., Lorca, A., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Marocco, F., Mary, N., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Pailler, F., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Panem, C., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Riclet, F., Rybizki, J., Santovena, R., Sarro, L. M., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Slezak, I., Smart, R. L., Sordo, R., Soubiran, C., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Vallenari, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., and Zorec, J.

Abstract

Context: As part of the third Gaia Data Release, we present the contributions of the non-stellar and classification modules from the eighth coordination unit (CU8) of the Data Processing and Analysis Consortium, which is responsible for the determination of source astrophysical parameters using Gaia data. This is the third in a series of three papers describing the work done within CU8 for this release. Aims: For each of the five relevant modules from CU8, we summarise their objectives, the methods they employ, their performance, and the results they produce for Gaia DR3. We further advise how to use these data products and highlight some limitations. Methods: The Discrete Source Classifier (DSC) module provides classification probabilities associated with five types of sources: quasars, galaxies, stars, white dwarfs, and physical binary stars. A subset of these sources are processed by the Outlier Analysis (OA) module, which performs an unsupervised clustering analysis, and then associates labels with the clusters to complement the DSC classification. The Quasi Stellar Object Classifier (QSOC) and the Unresolved Galaxy Classifier (UGC) determine the redshifts of the sources classified as quasar and galaxy by the DSC module. Finally, the Total Galactic Extinction (TGE) module uses the extinctions of individual stars determined by another CU8 module to determine the asymptotic extinction along all lines of sight for Galactic latitudes |b| > 5 degrees. Results: Gaia DR3 includes 1591 million sources with DSC classifications; 56 million sources to which the OA clustering is applied; 1.4 million sources with redshift estimates from UGC; 6.4 million sources with QSOC redshift; and 3.1 million level 9 HEALPixes of size 0 :013 deg(2) where the extinction is evaluated by TGE. Conclusions: Validation shows that results are in good agreement with values from external catalogues; for example 90% of the QSOC redshifts have absolute error lower than 0:1 for sources with empty

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9. Gaia Data Release 3 : Stellar chromospheric activity and mass accretion from Ca II IRT observed by the Radial Velocity Spectrometer

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Lanzafame, A. C., Brugaletta, E., Fremat, Y., Sordo, R., Creevey, O. L., Andretta, V., Scandariato, G., Busa, I., Distefano, E., Korn, Andreas, de laverny, P., Recio-Blanco, A., Aramburu, A. Abreu, Alvarez, M. A., Andrae, R., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Bakker, J., Bellas-Velidis, I., Bijaoui, A., Brouillet, N., Burlacu, A., Carballo, R., Casamiquela, L., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Dafonte, C., Dapergolas, A., Delchambre, L., Demouchy, C., Dharmawardena, T. E., Drimmel, R., Edvardsson, Bengt, Fouesneau, M., Garabato, D., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gavel, Alvin, Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Hatzidimitriou, D., Heiter, Ulrike, Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Kordopatis, G., Lebreton, Y., Licata, E. L., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Livanou, E., Lobel, A., Lorca, A., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Manteiga, M., Marocco, F., Marshall, D. J., Mary, N., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Pailler, F., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Panem, C., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Riclet, F., Robin, C., Rybizki, J., Santovena, R., Sarro, L. M., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Silvelo, A., Slezak, I., Smart, R. L., Soubiran, C., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Vallenari, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., Zorec, J., Lanzafame, A. C., Brugaletta, E., Fremat, Y., Sordo, R., Creevey, O. L., Andretta, V., Scandariato, G., Busa, I., Distefano, E., Korn, Andreas, de laverny, P., Recio-Blanco, A., Aramburu, A. Abreu, Alvarez, M. A., Andrae, R., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Bakker, J., Bellas-Velidis, I., Bijaoui, A., Brouillet, N., Burlacu, A., Carballo, R., Casamiquela, L., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Dafonte, C., Dapergolas, A., Delchambre, L., Demouchy, C., Dharmawardena, T. E., Drimmel, R., Edvardsson, Bengt, Fouesneau, M., Garabato, D., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gavel, Alvin, Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Hatzidimitriou, D., Heiter, Ulrike, Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Kordopatis, G., Lebreton, Y., Licata, E. L., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Livanou, E., Lobel, A., Lorca, A., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Manteiga, M., Marocco, F., Marshall, D. J., Mary, N., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Pailler, F., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Panem, C., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Riclet, F., Robin, C., Rybizki, J., Santovena, R., Sarro, L. M., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Silvelo, A., Slezak, I., Smart, R. L., Soubiran, C., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Vallenari, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., and Zorec, J.

Abstract

Context: The Gaia Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) provides the unique opportunity of a spectroscopic analysis of millions of stars at medium resolution (lambda/Delta lambda similar to 11 500) in the near-infrared (845 872 nm). This wavelength range includes the Ca ii infrared triplet (IRT) at 850.03, 854.44, and 866.45 nm, which is a good indicator of magnetic activity in the chromosphere of late-type stars. Aims: Here we present the method devised for inferring the Gaia stellar activity index from the analysis of the Ca ii IRT in the RVS spectrum, together with its scientific validation. Methods: The Gaia stellar activity index is derived from the Ca ii IRT excess equivalent width with respect to a reference spectrum, taking the projected rotational velocity (v sin i) into account. We performed scientific validation of the Gaia stellar activity index by deriving a R'(IRT) index, which is largely independent of the photospheric parameters, and considering the correlation with the R'(HK) index for a sample of stars. A sample of well-studied pre-main-sequence (PMS) stars is considered to identify the regime in which the Gaia stellar activity index may be a ffected by mass accretion. The position of these stars in the colour-magnitude diagram and the correlation with the amplitude of the photometric rotational modulation is also scrutinised. Results: Gaia DR3 contains a stellar activity index derived from the Ca ii IRT for some 2 x 10(6) stars in the Galaxy. This represents a `gold mine' for studies on stellar magnetic activity and mass accretion in the solar vicinity. Three regimes of the chromospheric stellar activity are identified, confirming suggestions made by previous authors based on much smaller R-HK(') datasets. The highest stellar activity regime is associated with PMS stars and RS CVn systems, in which activity is enhanced by tidal interaction. Some evidence of a bimodal distribution in main sequence (MS) stars with T-eff >= 5000K is also found, which

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10. Gaia Data Release 3 : Analysis of the Gaia BP/RP spectra using the General Stellar Parameterizer from Photometry

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Andrae, R., Fouesneau, M., Sordo, R., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Dharmawardena, T. E., Rybizki, J., De Angeli, F., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Marshall, D. J., Drimmel, R., Korn, Andreas, Soubiran, C., Brouillet, N., Casamiquela, L., Rix, H. -W, Aramburu, A. Abreu, Alvarez, M. A., Bakker, J., Bellas-Velidis, I., Bijaoui, A., Brugaletta, E., Burlacu, A., Carballo, R., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Creevey, O. L., Dafonte, C., Dapergolas, A., De laverny, P., Delchambre, L., Demouchy, C., Edvardsson, Bengt, Fremat, Y., Garabato, D., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gavel, Alvin, Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Hatzidimitriou, D., Heiter, Ulrike, Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Kordopatis, G., Lanzafame, A. C., Lebreton, Y., Licata, E. L., Livanou, E., Lobel, A., Lorca, A., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Manteiga, M., Marocco, F., Mary, N., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Pailler, F., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Panem, C., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Riclet, F., Robin, C., Santovena, R., Sarro, L. M., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Silvelo, A., Slezak, I., Smart, R. L., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Vallenari, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., Zorec, J., Andrae, R., Fouesneau, M., Sordo, R., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Dharmawardena, T. E., Rybizki, J., De Angeli, F., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Marshall, D. J., Drimmel, R., Korn, Andreas, Soubiran, C., Brouillet, N., Casamiquela, L., Rix, H. -W, Aramburu, A. Abreu, Alvarez, M. A., Bakker, J., Bellas-Velidis, I., Bijaoui, A., Brugaletta, E., Burlacu, A., Carballo, R., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Creevey, O. L., Dafonte, C., Dapergolas, A., De laverny, P., Delchambre, L., Demouchy, C., Edvardsson, Bengt, Fremat, Y., Garabato, D., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gavel, Alvin, Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Hatzidimitriou, D., Heiter, Ulrike, Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Kordopatis, G., Lanzafame, A. C., Lebreton, Y., Licata, E. L., Livanou, E., Lobel, A., Lorca, A., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Manteiga, M., Marocco, F., Mary, N., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Pailler, F., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Panem, C., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Riclet, F., Robin, C., Santovena, R., Sarro, L. M., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Silvelo, A., Slezak, I., Smart, R. L., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Vallenari, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., and Zorec, J.

Abstract

Context: The astrophysical characterisation of sources is among the major new data products in the third Gaia Data Release (DR3). In particular, there are stellar parameters for 471 million sources estimated from low-resolution BP /RP spectra. Aims: We present the General Stellar Parameterizer from Photometry (GSP-Phot), which is part of the astrophysical parameters inference system (Apsis). GSP-Phot is designed to produce a homogeneous catalogue of parameters for hundreds of millions of single non-variable stars based on their astrometry, photometry, and low-resolution BP/RP spectra. These parameters are effective temperature, surface gravity, metallicity, absolute MG magnitude, radius, distance, and extinction for each star. Methods: GSP-Phot uses a Bayesian forward-modelling approach to simultaneously fit the BP /RP spectrum, parallax, and apparent G magnitude. A major design feature of GSP-Phot is the use of the apparent flux levels of BP /RP spectra to derive, in combination with isochrone models, tight observational constraints on radii and distances. We carefully validate the uncertainty estimates by exploiting repeat Gaia observations of the same source. Results: The data release includes GSP-Phot results for 471 million sources with G < 19. Typical differences to literature values are 110K for T-eff and 0.2-0.25 for log g, but these depend strongly on data quality. In particular, GSP-Phot results are significantly better for stars with good parallax measurements (pi/sigma(pi) > 20), mostly within 2 kpc. Metallicity estimates exhibit substantial biases compared to literature values and are only useful at a qualitative level. However, we provide an empirical calibration of our metallicity estimates that largely removes these biases. Extinctions A(0) and A(BP) show typical di fferences from reference values of 0.07-0.09 mag. MCMC samples of the parameters are also available for 95% of the sources. Conclusions: GSP-Phot provides a homogeneous catalogue of

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11. Apsis. III. Non-stellar content and source classification

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Delchambre, L., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Bellas-Velidis, I., Drimmel, R., Garabato, D., Carballo, R., Hatzidimitriou, D., Marshall, D. J., Andrae, R., Dafonte, C., Livanou, E., Fouesneau, M., Licata, E. L., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Manteiga, M., Robin, C., Silvelo, A., Aramburu, A. Abreu, Alvarez, M. A., Bakker, J., Bijaoui, A., Brouillet, N., Brugaletta, E., Burlacu, A., Casamiquela, L., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Creevey, O. L., Dapergolas, A., de laverny, P., Demouchy, C., Dharmawardena, T. E., Edvardsson, Bengt, Fremat, Y., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gavel, Alvin, Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Heiter, Ulrike, Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Kordopatis, G., Korn, Andreas, Lanzafame, A. C., Lebreton, Y., Lobel, A., Lorca, A., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Marocco, F., Mary, N., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Pailler, F., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Panem, C., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Riclet, F., Rybizki, J., Santovena, R., Sarro, L. M., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Slezak, I., Smart, R. L., Sordo, R., Soubiran, C., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Vallenari, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., Zorec, J., Delchambre, L., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Bellas-Velidis, I., Drimmel, R., Garabato, D., Carballo, R., Hatzidimitriou, D., Marshall, D. J., Andrae, R., Dafonte, C., Livanou, E., Fouesneau, M., Licata, E. L., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Manteiga, M., Robin, C., Silvelo, A., Aramburu, A. Abreu, Alvarez, M. A., Bakker, J., Bijaoui, A., Brouillet, N., Brugaletta, E., Burlacu, A., Casamiquela, L., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Creevey, O. L., Dapergolas, A., de laverny, P., Demouchy, C., Dharmawardena, T. E., Edvardsson, Bengt, Fremat, Y., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gavel, Alvin, Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Heiter, Ulrike, Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Kordopatis, G., Korn, Andreas, Lanzafame, A. C., Lebreton, Y., Lobel, A., Lorca, A., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Marocco, F., Mary, N., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Pailler, F., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Panem, C., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Riclet, F., Rybizki, J., Santovena, R., Sarro, L. M., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Slezak, I., Smart, R. L., Sordo, R., Soubiran, C., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Vallenari, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., and Zorec, J.

Abstract

Context: As part of the third Gaia Data Release, we present the contributions of the non-stellar and classification modules from the eighth coordination unit (CU8) of the Data Processing and Analysis Consortium, which is responsible for the determination of source astrophysical parameters using Gaia data. This is the third in a series of three papers describing the work done within CU8 for this release. Aims: For each of the five relevant modules from CU8, we summarise their objectives, the methods they employ, their performance, and the results they produce for Gaia DR3. We further advise how to use these data products and highlight some limitations. Methods: The Discrete Source Classifier (DSC) module provides classification probabilities associated with five types of sources: quasars, galaxies, stars, white dwarfs, and physical binary stars. A subset of these sources are processed by the Outlier Analysis (OA) module, which performs an unsupervised clustering analysis, and then associates labels with the clusters to complement the DSC classification. The Quasi Stellar Object Classifier (QSOC) and the Unresolved Galaxy Classifier (UGC) determine the redshifts of the sources classified as quasar and galaxy by the DSC module. Finally, the Total Galactic Extinction (TGE) module uses the extinctions of individual stars determined by another CU8 module to determine the asymptotic extinction along all lines of sight for Galactic latitudes |b| > 5 degrees. Results: Gaia DR3 includes 1591 million sources with DSC classifications; 56 million sources to which the OA clustering is applied; 1.4 million sources with redshift estimates from UGC; 6.4 million sources with QSOC redshift; and 3.1 million level 9 HEALPixes of size 0 :013 deg(2) where the extinction is evaluated by TGE. Conclusions: Validation shows that results are in good agreement with values from external catalogues; for example 90% of the QSOC redshifts have absolute error lower than 0:1 for sources with empty

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12. Gaia Data Release 3 : Stellar chromospheric activity and mass accretion from Ca II IRT observed by the Radial Velocity Spectrometer

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Lanzafame, A. C., Brugaletta, E., Fremat, Y., Sordo, R., Creevey, O. L., Andretta, V., Scandariato, G., Busa, I., Distefano, E., Korn, Andreas, de laverny, P., Recio-Blanco, A., Aramburu, A. Abreu, Alvarez, M. A., Andrae, R., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Bakker, J., Bellas-Velidis, I., Bijaoui, A., Brouillet, N., Burlacu, A., Carballo, R., Casamiquela, L., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Dafonte, C., Dapergolas, A., Delchambre, L., Demouchy, C., Dharmawardena, T. E., Drimmel, R., Edvardsson, Bengt, Fouesneau, M., Garabato, D., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gavel, Alvin, Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Hatzidimitriou, D., Heiter, Ulrike, Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Kordopatis, G., Lebreton, Y., Licata, E. L., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Livanou, E., Lobel, A., Lorca, A., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Manteiga, M., Marocco, F., Marshall, D. J., Mary, N., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Pailler, F., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Panem, C., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Riclet, F., Robin, C., Rybizki, J., Santovena, R., Sarro, L. M., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Silvelo, A., Slezak, I., Smart, R. L., Soubiran, C., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Vallenari, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., Zorec, J., Lanzafame, A. C., Brugaletta, E., Fremat, Y., Sordo, R., Creevey, O. L., Andretta, V., Scandariato, G., Busa, I., Distefano, E., Korn, Andreas, de laverny, P., Recio-Blanco, A., Aramburu, A. Abreu, Alvarez, M. A., Andrae, R., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Bakker, J., Bellas-Velidis, I., Bijaoui, A., Brouillet, N., Burlacu, A., Carballo, R., Casamiquela, L., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Dafonte, C., Dapergolas, A., Delchambre, L., Demouchy, C., Dharmawardena, T. E., Drimmel, R., Edvardsson, Bengt, Fouesneau, M., Garabato, D., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gavel, Alvin, Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Hatzidimitriou, D., Heiter, Ulrike, Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Kordopatis, G., Lebreton, Y., Licata, E. L., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Livanou, E., Lobel, A., Lorca, A., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Manteiga, M., Marocco, F., Marshall, D. J., Mary, N., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Pailler, F., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Panem, C., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Riclet, F., Robin, C., Rybizki, J., Santovena, R., Sarro, L. M., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Silvelo, A., Slezak, I., Smart, R. L., Soubiran, C., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Vallenari, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., and Zorec, J.

Abstract

Context: The Gaia Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) provides the unique opportunity of a spectroscopic analysis of millions of stars at medium resolution (lambda/Delta lambda similar to 11 500) in the near-infrared (845 872 nm). This wavelength range includes the Ca ii infrared triplet (IRT) at 850.03, 854.44, and 866.45 nm, which is a good indicator of magnetic activity in the chromosphere of late-type stars. Aims: Here we present the method devised for inferring the Gaia stellar activity index from the analysis of the Ca ii IRT in the RVS spectrum, together with its scientific validation. Methods: The Gaia stellar activity index is derived from the Ca ii IRT excess equivalent width with respect to a reference spectrum, taking the projected rotational velocity (v sin i) into account. We performed scientific validation of the Gaia stellar activity index by deriving a R'(IRT) index, which is largely independent of the photospheric parameters, and considering the correlation with the R'(HK) index for a sample of stars. A sample of well-studied pre-main-sequence (PMS) stars is considered to identify the regime in which the Gaia stellar activity index may be a ffected by mass accretion. The position of these stars in the colour-magnitude diagram and the correlation with the amplitude of the photometric rotational modulation is also scrutinised. Results: Gaia DR3 contains a stellar activity index derived from the Ca ii IRT for some 2 x 10(6) stars in the Galaxy. This represents a `gold mine' for studies on stellar magnetic activity and mass accretion in the solar vicinity. Three regimes of the chromospheric stellar activity are identified, confirming suggestions made by previous authors based on much smaller R-HK(') datasets. The highest stellar activity regime is associated with PMS stars and RS CVn systems, in which activity is enhanced by tidal interaction. Some evidence of a bimodal distribution in main sequence (MS) stars with T-eff >= 5000K is also found, which

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13. Gaia Data Release 3 : Analysis of the Gaia BP/RP spectra using the General Stellar Parameterizer from Photometry

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Andrae, R., Fouesneau, M., Sordo, R., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Dharmawardena, T. E., Rybizki, J., De Angeli, F., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Marshall, D. J., Drimmel, R., Korn, Andreas, Soubiran, C., Brouillet, N., Casamiquela, L., Rix, H. -W, Aramburu, A. Abreu, Alvarez, M. A., Bakker, J., Bellas-Velidis, I., Bijaoui, A., Brugaletta, E., Burlacu, A., Carballo, R., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Creevey, O. L., Dafonte, C., Dapergolas, A., De laverny, P., Delchambre, L., Demouchy, C., Edvardsson, Bengt, Fremat, Y., Garabato, D., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gavel, Alvin, Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Hatzidimitriou, D., Heiter, Ulrike, Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Kordopatis, G., Lanzafame, A. C., Lebreton, Y., Licata, E. L., Livanou, E., Lobel, A., Lorca, A., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Manteiga, M., Marocco, F., Mary, N., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Pailler, F., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Panem, C., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Riclet, F., Robin, C., Santovena, R., Sarro, L. M., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Silvelo, A., Slezak, I., Smart, R. L., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Vallenari, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., Zorec, J., Andrae, R., Fouesneau, M., Sordo, R., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Dharmawardena, T. E., Rybizki, J., De Angeli, F., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Marshall, D. J., Drimmel, R., Korn, Andreas, Soubiran, C., Brouillet, N., Casamiquela, L., Rix, H. -W, Aramburu, A. Abreu, Alvarez, M. A., Bakker, J., Bellas-Velidis, I., Bijaoui, A., Brugaletta, E., Burlacu, A., Carballo, R., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Creevey, O. L., Dafonte, C., Dapergolas, A., De laverny, P., Delchambre, L., Demouchy, C., Edvardsson, Bengt, Fremat, Y., Garabato, D., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gavel, Alvin, Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Hatzidimitriou, D., Heiter, Ulrike, Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Kordopatis, G., Lanzafame, A. C., Lebreton, Y., Licata, E. L., Livanou, E., Lobel, A., Lorca, A., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Manteiga, M., Marocco, F., Mary, N., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Pailler, F., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Panem, C., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Riclet, F., Robin, C., Santovena, R., Sarro, L. M., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Silvelo, A., Slezak, I., Smart, R. L., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Vallenari, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., and Zorec, J.

Abstract

Context: The astrophysical characterisation of sources is among the major new data products in the third Gaia Data Release (DR3). In particular, there are stellar parameters for 471 million sources estimated from low-resolution BP /RP spectra. Aims: We present the General Stellar Parameterizer from Photometry (GSP-Phot), which is part of the astrophysical parameters inference system (Apsis). GSP-Phot is designed to produce a homogeneous catalogue of parameters for hundreds of millions of single non-variable stars based on their astrometry, photometry, and low-resolution BP/RP spectra. These parameters are effective temperature, surface gravity, metallicity, absolute MG magnitude, radius, distance, and extinction for each star. Methods: GSP-Phot uses a Bayesian forward-modelling approach to simultaneously fit the BP /RP spectrum, parallax, and apparent G magnitude. A major design feature of GSP-Phot is the use of the apparent flux levels of BP /RP spectra to derive, in combination with isochrone models, tight observational constraints on radii and distances. We carefully validate the uncertainty estimates by exploiting repeat Gaia observations of the same source. Results: The data release includes GSP-Phot results for 471 million sources with G < 19. Typical differences to literature values are 110K for T-eff and 0.2-0.25 for log g, but these depend strongly on data quality. In particular, GSP-Phot results are significantly better for stars with good parallax measurements (pi/sigma(pi) > 20), mostly within 2 kpc. Metallicity estimates exhibit substantial biases compared to literature values and are only useful at a qualitative level. However, we provide an empirical calibration of our metallicity estimates that largely removes these biases. Extinctions A(0) and A(BP) show typical di fferences from reference values of 0.07-0.09 mag. MCMC samples of the parameters are also available for 95% of the sources. Conclusions: GSP-Phot provides a homogeneous catalogue of

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14. Gaia Data Release 3 : Stellar chromospheric activity and mass accretion from Ca II IRT observed by the Radial Velocity Spectrometer

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Lanzafame, A. C., Brugaletta, E., Fremat, Y., Sordo, R., Creevey, O. L., Andretta, V., Scandariato, G., Busa, I., Distefano, E., Korn, Andreas, de laverny, P., Recio-Blanco, A., Aramburu, A. Abreu, Alvarez, M. A., Andrae, R., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Bakker, J., Bellas-Velidis, I., Bijaoui, A., Brouillet, N., Burlacu, A., Carballo, R., Casamiquela, L., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Dafonte, C., Dapergolas, A., Delchambre, L., Demouchy, C., Dharmawardena, T. E., Drimmel, R., Edvardsson, Bengt, Fouesneau, M., Garabato, D., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gavel, Alvin, Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Hatzidimitriou, D., Heiter, Ulrike, Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Kordopatis, G., Lebreton, Y., Licata, E. L., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Livanou, E., Lobel, A., Lorca, A., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Manteiga, M., Marocco, F., Marshall, D. J., Mary, N., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Pailler, F., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Panem, C., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Riclet, F., Robin, C., Rybizki, J., Santovena, R., Sarro, L. M., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Silvelo, A., Slezak, I., Smart, R. L., Soubiran, C., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Vallenari, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., Zorec, J., Lanzafame, A. C., Brugaletta, E., Fremat, Y., Sordo, R., Creevey, O. L., Andretta, V., Scandariato, G., Busa, I., Distefano, E., Korn, Andreas, de laverny, P., Recio-Blanco, A., Aramburu, A. Abreu, Alvarez, M. A., Andrae, R., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Bakker, J., Bellas-Velidis, I., Bijaoui, A., Brouillet, N., Burlacu, A., Carballo, R., Casamiquela, L., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Dafonte, C., Dapergolas, A., Delchambre, L., Demouchy, C., Dharmawardena, T. E., Drimmel, R., Edvardsson, Bengt, Fouesneau, M., Garabato, D., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gavel, Alvin, Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Hatzidimitriou, D., Heiter, Ulrike, Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Kordopatis, G., Lebreton, Y., Licata, E. L., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Livanou, E., Lobel, A., Lorca, A., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Manteiga, M., Marocco, F., Marshall, D. J., Mary, N., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Pailler, F., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Panem, C., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Riclet, F., Robin, C., Rybizki, J., Santovena, R., Sarro, L. M., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Silvelo, A., Slezak, I., Smart, R. L., Soubiran, C., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Vallenari, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., and Zorec, J.

Abstract

Context: The Gaia Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) provides the unique opportunity of a spectroscopic analysis of millions of stars at medium resolution (lambda/Delta lambda similar to 11 500) in the near-infrared (845 872 nm). This wavelength range includes the Ca ii infrared triplet (IRT) at 850.03, 854.44, and 866.45 nm, which is a good indicator of magnetic activity in the chromosphere of late-type stars. Aims: Here we present the method devised for inferring the Gaia stellar activity index from the analysis of the Ca ii IRT in the RVS spectrum, together with its scientific validation. Methods: The Gaia stellar activity index is derived from the Ca ii IRT excess equivalent width with respect to a reference spectrum, taking the projected rotational velocity (v sin i) into account. We performed scientific validation of the Gaia stellar activity index by deriving a R'(IRT) index, which is largely independent of the photospheric parameters, and considering the correlation with the R'(HK) index for a sample of stars. A sample of well-studied pre-main-sequence (PMS) stars is considered to identify the regime in which the Gaia stellar activity index may be a ffected by mass accretion. The position of these stars in the colour-magnitude diagram and the correlation with the amplitude of the photometric rotational modulation is also scrutinised. Results: Gaia DR3 contains a stellar activity index derived from the Ca ii IRT for some 2 x 10(6) stars in the Galaxy. This represents a `gold mine' for studies on stellar magnetic activity and mass accretion in the solar vicinity. Three regimes of the chromospheric stellar activity are identified, confirming suggestions made by previous authors based on much smaller R-HK(') datasets. The highest stellar activity regime is associated with PMS stars and RS CVn systems, in which activity is enhanced by tidal interaction. Some evidence of a bimodal distribution in main sequence (MS) stars with T-eff >= 5000K is also found, which

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15. Apsis. III. Non-stellar content and source classification

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Delchambre, L., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Bellas-Velidis, I., Drimmel, R., Garabato, D., Carballo, R., Hatzidimitriou, D., Marshall, D. J., Andrae, R., Dafonte, C., Livanou, E., Fouesneau, M., Licata, E. L., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Manteiga, M., Robin, C., Silvelo, A., Aramburu, A. Abreu, Alvarez, M. A., Bakker, J., Bijaoui, A., Brouillet, N., Brugaletta, E., Burlacu, A., Casamiquela, L., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Creevey, O. L., Dapergolas, A., de laverny, P., Demouchy, C., Dharmawardena, T. E., Edvardsson, Bengt, Fremat, Y., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gavel, Alvin, Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Heiter, Ulrike, Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Kordopatis, G., Korn, Andreas, Lanzafame, A. C., Lebreton, Y., Lobel, A., Lorca, A., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Marocco, F., Mary, N., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Pailler, F., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Panem, C., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Riclet, F., Rybizki, J., Santovena, R., Sarro, L. M., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Slezak, I., Smart, R. L., Sordo, R., Soubiran, C., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Vallenari, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., Zorec, J., Delchambre, L., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Bellas-Velidis, I., Drimmel, R., Garabato, D., Carballo, R., Hatzidimitriou, D., Marshall, D. J., Andrae, R., Dafonte, C., Livanou, E., Fouesneau, M., Licata, E. L., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Manteiga, M., Robin, C., Silvelo, A., Aramburu, A. Abreu, Alvarez, M. A., Bakker, J., Bijaoui, A., Brouillet, N., Brugaletta, E., Burlacu, A., Casamiquela, L., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Creevey, O. L., Dapergolas, A., de laverny, P., Demouchy, C., Dharmawardena, T. E., Edvardsson, Bengt, Fremat, Y., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gavel, Alvin, Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Heiter, Ulrike, Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Kordopatis, G., Korn, Andreas, Lanzafame, A. C., Lebreton, Y., Lobel, A., Lorca, A., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Marocco, F., Mary, N., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Pailler, F., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Panem, C., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Riclet, F., Rybizki, J., Santovena, R., Sarro, L. M., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Slezak, I., Smart, R. L., Sordo, R., Soubiran, C., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Vallenari, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., and Zorec, J.

Abstract

Context: As part of the third Gaia Data Release, we present the contributions of the non-stellar and classification modules from the eighth coordination unit (CU8) of the Data Processing and Analysis Consortium, which is responsible for the determination of source astrophysical parameters using Gaia data. This is the third in a series of three papers describing the work done within CU8 for this release. Aims: For each of the five relevant modules from CU8, we summarise their objectives, the methods they employ, their performance, and the results they produce for Gaia DR3. We further advise how to use these data products and highlight some limitations. Methods: The Discrete Source Classifier (DSC) module provides classification probabilities associated with five types of sources: quasars, galaxies, stars, white dwarfs, and physical binary stars. A subset of these sources are processed by the Outlier Analysis (OA) module, which performs an unsupervised clustering analysis, and then associates labels with the clusters to complement the DSC classification. The Quasi Stellar Object Classifier (QSOC) and the Unresolved Galaxy Classifier (UGC) determine the redshifts of the sources classified as quasar and galaxy by the DSC module. Finally, the Total Galactic Extinction (TGE) module uses the extinctions of individual stars determined by another CU8 module to determine the asymptotic extinction along all lines of sight for Galactic latitudes |b| > 5 degrees. Results: Gaia DR3 includes 1591 million sources with DSC classifications; 56 million sources to which the OA clustering is applied; 1.4 million sources with redshift estimates from UGC; 6.4 million sources with QSOC redshift; and 3.1 million level 9 HEALPixes of size 0 :013 deg(2) where the extinction is evaluated by TGE. Conclusions: Validation shows that results are in good agreement with values from external catalogues; for example 90% of the QSOC redshifts have absolute error lower than 0:1 for sources with empty

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16. Gaia Data Release 3 Apsis. II. Stellar parameters

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Fouesneau, M., Fremat, Y., Andrae, R., Korn, Andreas, Soubiran, C., Kordopatis, G., Vallenari, A., Heiter, U., Creevey, O. L., Sarro, L. M., de laverny, P., Lanzafame, A. C., Lobel, A., Sordo, R., Rybizki, J., Slezak, I., Alvarez, M. A., Drimmel, R., Garabato, D., Delchambre, L., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Hatzidimitriou, D., Lorca, A., Le Fustec, Y., Pailler, F., Mary, N., Robin, C., Utrilla, E., Aramburu, A. Abreu, Bakker, J., Bellas-Velidis, I., Bijaoui, A., Blomme, R., Bouret, J. -C, Brouillet, N., Brugaletta, E., Burlacu, A., Carballo, R., Casamiquela, L., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Dafonte, C., Demouchy, C., Dharmawardena, T. E., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Lebreton, Y., Licata, E. L., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Livanou, E., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Manteiga, M., Marocco, F., Martayan, C., Marshall, D. J., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Riclet, F., Santovena, R., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Silvelo, A., Smart, R. L., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., Zorec, J., Fouesneau, M., Fremat, Y., Andrae, R., Korn, Andreas, Soubiran, C., Kordopatis, G., Vallenari, A., Heiter, U., Creevey, O. L., Sarro, L. M., de laverny, P., Lanzafame, A. C., Lobel, A., Sordo, R., Rybizki, J., Slezak, I., Alvarez, M. A., Drimmel, R., Garabato, D., Delchambre, L., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Hatzidimitriou, D., Lorca, A., Le Fustec, Y., Pailler, F., Mary, N., Robin, C., Utrilla, E., Aramburu, A. Abreu, Bakker, J., Bellas-Velidis, I., Bijaoui, A., Blomme, R., Bouret, J. -C, Brouillet, N., Brugaletta, E., Burlacu, A., Carballo, R., Casamiquela, L., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Dafonte, C., Demouchy, C., Dharmawardena, T. E., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Lebreton, Y., Licata, E. L., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Livanou, E., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Manteiga, M., Marocco, F., Martayan, C., Marshall, D. J., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Riclet, F., Santovena, R., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Silvelo, A., Smart, R. L., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., and Zorec, J.

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Context. The third Gaia data release (Gaia DR3) contains, beyond the astrometry and photometry, dispersed light for hundreds of millions of sources from the Gaia prism spectra (BP and RP) and the spectrograph (RVS). This data release opens a new window on the chemo-dynamical properties of stars in our Galaxy, essential knowledge for understanding the structure, formation, and evolution of the Milky Way. Aims. To provide insight into the physical properties of Milky Way stars, we used these data to produce a uniformly derived all-sky catalogue of stellar astrophysical parameters: atmospheric properties (T-e ff, log g, [M /H], [alpha/Fe], activity index, emission lines, and rotation), 13 chemical abundance estimates, evolution characteristics (radius, age, mass, and bolometric luminosity), distance, and dust extinction. Methods. We developed the astrophysical parameter inference system (Apsis) pipeline to infer astrophysical parameters of Gaia objects by analysing their astrometry, photometry, BP /RP, and RVS spectra. We validate our results against those from other works in the literature, including benchmark stars, interferometry, and asteroseismology. Here we assess the stellar analysis performance from Apsis statistically. Results. We describe the quantities we obtained, including the underlying assumptions and the limitations of our results. We provide guidance and identify regimes in which our parameters should and should not be used. Conclusions. Despite some limitations, this is the most extensive catalogue of uniformly inferred stellar parameters to date. They comprise T-eff, log g, and [M/H] (470 million using BP/RP, 6 million using RVS), radius (470 million), mass (140 million), age (120 million), chemical abundances (5 million), di ffuse interstellar band analysis (half a million), activity indices (2 million), H ff equivalent widths (200 million), and further classifications of spectral types (220 million) and emission-line stars (50 thousand). More preci

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17. Gaia Data Release 3 Apsis. II. Stellar parameters

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Fouesneau, M., Fremat, Y., Andrae, R., Korn, Andreas, Soubiran, C., Kordopatis, G., Vallenari, A., Heiter, U., Creevey, O. L., Sarro, L. M., de laverny, P., Lanzafame, A. C., Lobel, A., Sordo, R., Rybizki, J., Slezak, I., Alvarez, M. A., Drimmel, R., Garabato, D., Delchambre, L., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Hatzidimitriou, D., Lorca, A., Le Fustec, Y., Pailler, F., Mary, N., Robin, C., Utrilla, E., Aramburu, A. Abreu, Bakker, J., Bellas-Velidis, I., Bijaoui, A., Blomme, R., Bouret, J. -C, Brouillet, N., Brugaletta, E., Burlacu, A., Carballo, R., Casamiquela, L., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Dafonte, C., Demouchy, C., Dharmawardena, T. E., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Lebreton, Y., Licata, E. L., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Livanou, E., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Manteiga, M., Marocco, F., Martayan, C., Marshall, D. J., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Riclet, F., Santovena, R., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Silvelo, A., Smart, R. L., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., Zorec, J., Fouesneau, M., Fremat, Y., Andrae, R., Korn, Andreas, Soubiran, C., Kordopatis, G., Vallenari, A., Heiter, U., Creevey, O. L., Sarro, L. M., de laverny, P., Lanzafame, A. C., Lobel, A., Sordo, R., Rybizki, J., Slezak, I., Alvarez, M. A., Drimmel, R., Garabato, D., Delchambre, L., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Hatzidimitriou, D., Lorca, A., Le Fustec, Y., Pailler, F., Mary, N., Robin, C., Utrilla, E., Aramburu, A. Abreu, Bakker, J., Bellas-Velidis, I., Bijaoui, A., Blomme, R., Bouret, J. -C, Brouillet, N., Brugaletta, E., Burlacu, A., Carballo, R., Casamiquela, L., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Dafonte, C., Demouchy, C., Dharmawardena, T. E., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Lebreton, Y., Licata, E. L., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Livanou, E., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Manteiga, M., Marocco, F., Martayan, C., Marshall, D. J., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Riclet, F., Santovena, R., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Silvelo, A., Smart, R. L., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., and Zorec, J.

Abstract

Context. The third Gaia data release (Gaia DR3) contains, beyond the astrometry and photometry, dispersed light for hundreds of millions of sources from the Gaia prism spectra (BP and RP) and the spectrograph (RVS). This data release opens a new window on the chemo-dynamical properties of stars in our Galaxy, essential knowledge for understanding the structure, formation, and evolution of the Milky Way. Aims. To provide insight into the physical properties of Milky Way stars, we used these data to produce a uniformly derived all-sky catalogue of stellar astrophysical parameters: atmospheric properties (T-e ff, log g, [M /H], [alpha/Fe], activity index, emission lines, and rotation), 13 chemical abundance estimates, evolution characteristics (radius, age, mass, and bolometric luminosity), distance, and dust extinction. Methods. We developed the astrophysical parameter inference system (Apsis) pipeline to infer astrophysical parameters of Gaia objects by analysing their astrometry, photometry, BP /RP, and RVS spectra. We validate our results against those from other works in the literature, including benchmark stars, interferometry, and asteroseismology. Here we assess the stellar analysis performance from Apsis statistically. Results. We describe the quantities we obtained, including the underlying assumptions and the limitations of our results. We provide guidance and identify regimes in which our parameters should and should not be used. Conclusions. Despite some limitations, this is the most extensive catalogue of uniformly inferred stellar parameters to date. They comprise T-eff, log g, and [M/H] (470 million using BP/RP, 6 million using RVS), radius (470 million), mass (140 million), age (120 million), chemical abundances (5 million), di ffuse interstellar band analysis (half a million), activity indices (2 million), H ff equivalent widths (200 million), and further classifications of spectral types (220 million) and emission-line stars (50 thousand). More preci

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18. Gaia Data Release 3 : Stellar chromospheric activity and mass accretion from Ca II IRT observed by the Radial Velocity Spectrometer

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Lanzafame, A. C., Brugaletta, E., Fremat, Y., Sordo, R., Creevey, O. L., Andretta, V., Scandariato, G., Busa, I., Distefano, E., Korn, Andreas, de laverny, P., Recio-Blanco, A., Aramburu, A. Abreu, Alvarez, M. A., Andrae, R., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Bakker, J., Bellas-Velidis, I., Bijaoui, A., Brouillet, N., Burlacu, A., Carballo, R., Casamiquela, L., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Dafonte, C., Dapergolas, A., Delchambre, L., Demouchy, C., Dharmawardena, T. E., Drimmel, R., Edvardsson, Bengt, Fouesneau, M., Garabato, D., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gavel, Alvin, Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Hatzidimitriou, D., Heiter, Ulrike, Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Kordopatis, G., Lebreton, Y., Licata, E. L., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Livanou, E., Lobel, A., Lorca, A., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Manteiga, M., Marocco, F., Marshall, D. J., Mary, N., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Pailler, F., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Panem, C., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Riclet, F., Robin, C., Rybizki, J., Santovena, R., Sarro, L. M., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Silvelo, A., Slezak, I., Smart, R. L., Soubiran, C., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Vallenari, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., Zorec, J., Lanzafame, A. C., Brugaletta, E., Fremat, Y., Sordo, R., Creevey, O. L., Andretta, V., Scandariato, G., Busa, I., Distefano, E., Korn, Andreas, de laverny, P., Recio-Blanco, A., Aramburu, A. Abreu, Alvarez, M. A., Andrae, R., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Bakker, J., Bellas-Velidis, I., Bijaoui, A., Brouillet, N., Burlacu, A., Carballo, R., Casamiquela, L., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Dafonte, C., Dapergolas, A., Delchambre, L., Demouchy, C., Dharmawardena, T. E., Drimmel, R., Edvardsson, Bengt, Fouesneau, M., Garabato, D., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gavel, Alvin, Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Hatzidimitriou, D., Heiter, Ulrike, Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Kordopatis, G., Lebreton, Y., Licata, E. L., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Livanou, E., Lobel, A., Lorca, A., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Manteiga, M., Marocco, F., Marshall, D. J., Mary, N., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Pailler, F., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Panem, C., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Riclet, F., Robin, C., Rybizki, J., Santovena, R., Sarro, L. M., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Silvelo, A., Slezak, I., Smart, R. L., Soubiran, C., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Vallenari, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., and Zorec, J.

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Context: The Gaia Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) provides the unique opportunity of a spectroscopic analysis of millions of stars at medium resolution (lambda/Delta lambda similar to 11 500) in the near-infrared (845 872 nm). This wavelength range includes the Ca ii infrared triplet (IRT) at 850.03, 854.44, and 866.45 nm, which is a good indicator of magnetic activity in the chromosphere of late-type stars. Aims: Here we present the method devised for inferring the Gaia stellar activity index from the analysis of the Ca ii IRT in the RVS spectrum, together with its scientific validation. Methods: The Gaia stellar activity index is derived from the Ca ii IRT excess equivalent width with respect to a reference spectrum, taking the projected rotational velocity (v sin i) into account. We performed scientific validation of the Gaia stellar activity index by deriving a R'(IRT) index, which is largely independent of the photospheric parameters, and considering the correlation with the R'(HK) index for a sample of stars. A sample of well-studied pre-main-sequence (PMS) stars is considered to identify the regime in which the Gaia stellar activity index may be a ffected by mass accretion. The position of these stars in the colour-magnitude diagram and the correlation with the amplitude of the photometric rotational modulation is also scrutinised. Results: Gaia DR3 contains a stellar activity index derived from the Ca ii IRT for some 2 x 10(6) stars in the Galaxy. This represents a `gold mine' for studies on stellar magnetic activity and mass accretion in the solar vicinity. Three regimes of the chromospheric stellar activity are identified, confirming suggestions made by previous authors based on much smaller R-HK(') datasets. The highest stellar activity regime is associated with PMS stars and RS CVn systems, in which activity is enhanced by tidal interaction. Some evidence of a bimodal distribution in main sequence (MS) stars with T-eff >= 5000K is also found, which

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19. Apsis. III. Non-stellar content and source classification

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Delchambre, L., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Bellas-Velidis, I., Drimmel, R., Garabato, D., Carballo, R., Hatzidimitriou, D., Marshall, D. J., Andrae, R., Dafonte, C., Livanou, E., Fouesneau, M., Licata, E. L., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Manteiga, M., Robin, C., Silvelo, A., Aramburu, A. Abreu, Alvarez, M. A., Bakker, J., Bijaoui, A., Brouillet, N., Brugaletta, E., Burlacu, A., Casamiquela, L., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Creevey, O. L., Dapergolas, A., de laverny, P., Demouchy, C., Dharmawardena, T. E., Edvardsson, Bengt, Fremat, Y., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gavel, Alvin, Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Heiter, Ulrike, Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Kordopatis, G., Korn, Andreas, Lanzafame, A. C., Lebreton, Y., Lobel, A., Lorca, A., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Marocco, F., Mary, N., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Pailler, F., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Panem, C., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Riclet, F., Rybizki, J., Santovena, R., Sarro, L. M., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Slezak, I., Smart, R. L., Sordo, R., Soubiran, C., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Vallenari, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., Zorec, J., Delchambre, L., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Bellas-Velidis, I., Drimmel, R., Garabato, D., Carballo, R., Hatzidimitriou, D., Marshall, D. J., Andrae, R., Dafonte, C., Livanou, E., Fouesneau, M., Licata, E. L., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Manteiga, M., Robin, C., Silvelo, A., Aramburu, A. Abreu, Alvarez, M. A., Bakker, J., Bijaoui, A., Brouillet, N., Brugaletta, E., Burlacu, A., Casamiquela, L., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Creevey, O. L., Dapergolas, A., de laverny, P., Demouchy, C., Dharmawardena, T. E., Edvardsson, Bengt, Fremat, Y., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gavel, Alvin, Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Heiter, Ulrike, Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Kordopatis, G., Korn, Andreas, Lanzafame, A. C., Lebreton, Y., Lobel, A., Lorca, A., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Marocco, F., Mary, N., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Pailler, F., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Panem, C., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Riclet, F., Rybizki, J., Santovena, R., Sarro, L. M., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Slezak, I., Smart, R. L., Sordo, R., Soubiran, C., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Vallenari, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., and Zorec, J.

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Context: As part of the third Gaia Data Release, we present the contributions of the non-stellar and classification modules from the eighth coordination unit (CU8) of the Data Processing and Analysis Consortium, which is responsible for the determination of source astrophysical parameters using Gaia data. This is the third in a series of three papers describing the work done within CU8 for this release. Aims: For each of the five relevant modules from CU8, we summarise their objectives, the methods they employ, their performance, and the results they produce for Gaia DR3. We further advise how to use these data products and highlight some limitations. Methods: The Discrete Source Classifier (DSC) module provides classification probabilities associated with five types of sources: quasars, galaxies, stars, white dwarfs, and physical binary stars. A subset of these sources are processed by the Outlier Analysis (OA) module, which performs an unsupervised clustering analysis, and then associates labels with the clusters to complement the DSC classification. The Quasi Stellar Object Classifier (QSOC) and the Unresolved Galaxy Classifier (UGC) determine the redshifts of the sources classified as quasar and galaxy by the DSC module. Finally, the Total Galactic Extinction (TGE) module uses the extinctions of individual stars determined by another CU8 module to determine the asymptotic extinction along all lines of sight for Galactic latitudes |b| > 5 degrees. Results: Gaia DR3 includes 1591 million sources with DSC classifications; 56 million sources to which the OA clustering is applied; 1.4 million sources with redshift estimates from UGC; 6.4 million sources with QSOC redshift; and 3.1 million level 9 HEALPixes of size 0 :013 deg(2) where the extinction is evaluated by TGE. Conclusions: Validation shows that results are in good agreement with values from external catalogues; for example 90% of the QSOC redshifts have absolute error lower than 0:1 for sources with empty

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20. Gaia Data Release 3 : Analysis of the Gaia BP/RP spectra using the General Stellar Parameterizer from Photometry

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Andrae, R., Fouesneau, M., Sordo, R., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Dharmawardena, T. E., Rybizki, J., De Angeli, F., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Marshall, D. J., Drimmel, R., Korn, Andreas, Soubiran, C., Brouillet, N., Casamiquela, L., Rix, H. -W, Aramburu, A. Abreu, Alvarez, M. A., Bakker, J., Bellas-Velidis, I., Bijaoui, A., Brugaletta, E., Burlacu, A., Carballo, R., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Creevey, O. L., Dafonte, C., Dapergolas, A., De laverny, P., Delchambre, L., Demouchy, C., Edvardsson, Bengt, Fremat, Y., Garabato, D., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gavel, Alvin, Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Hatzidimitriou, D., Heiter, Ulrike, Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Kordopatis, G., Lanzafame, A. C., Lebreton, Y., Licata, E. L., Livanou, E., Lobel, A., Lorca, A., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Manteiga, M., Marocco, F., Mary, N., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Pailler, F., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Panem, C., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Riclet, F., Robin, C., Santovena, R., Sarro, L. M., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Silvelo, A., Slezak, I., Smart, R. L., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Vallenari, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., Zorec, J., Andrae, R., Fouesneau, M., Sordo, R., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Dharmawardena, T. E., Rybizki, J., De Angeli, F., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Marshall, D. J., Drimmel, R., Korn, Andreas, Soubiran, C., Brouillet, N., Casamiquela, L., Rix, H. -W, Aramburu, A. Abreu, Alvarez, M. A., Bakker, J., Bellas-Velidis, I., Bijaoui, A., Brugaletta, E., Burlacu, A., Carballo, R., Chaoul, L., Chiavassa, A., Contursi, G., Cooper, W. J., Creevey, O. L., Dafonte, C., Dapergolas, A., De laverny, P., Delchambre, L., Demouchy, C., Edvardsson, Bengt, Fremat, Y., Garabato, D., Garcia-Lario, P., Garcia-Torres, M., Gavel, Alvin, Gomez, A., Gonzalez-Santamaria, I., Hatzidimitriou, D., Heiter, Ulrike, Piccolo, A. Jean-Antoine, Kontizas, M., Kordopatis, G., Lanzafame, A. C., Lebreton, Y., Licata, E. L., Livanou, E., Lobel, A., Lorca, A., Romeo, A. Magdaleno, Manteiga, M., Marocco, F., Mary, N., Nicolas, C., Ordenovic, C., Pailler, F., Palicio, P. A., Pallas-Quintela, L., Panem, C., Pichon, B., Poggio, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Riclet, F., Robin, C., Santovena, R., Sarro, L. M., Schultheis, M. S., Segol, M., Silvelo, A., Slezak, I., Smart, R. L., Suveges, M., Thevenin, F., Elipe, G. Torralba, Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Vallenari, A., van Dillen, E., Zhao, H., and Zorec, J.

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Context: The astrophysical characterisation of sources is among the major new data products in the third Gaia Data Release (DR3). In particular, there are stellar parameters for 471 million sources estimated from low-resolution BP /RP spectra. Aims: We present the General Stellar Parameterizer from Photometry (GSP-Phot), which is part of the astrophysical parameters inference system (Apsis). GSP-Phot is designed to produce a homogeneous catalogue of parameters for hundreds of millions of single non-variable stars based on their astrometry, photometry, and low-resolution BP/RP spectra. These parameters are effective temperature, surface gravity, metallicity, absolute MG magnitude, radius, distance, and extinction for each star. Methods: GSP-Phot uses a Bayesian forward-modelling approach to simultaneously fit the BP /RP spectrum, parallax, and apparent G magnitude. A major design feature of GSP-Phot is the use of the apparent flux levels of BP /RP spectra to derive, in combination with isochrone models, tight observational constraints on radii and distances. We carefully validate the uncertainty estimates by exploiting repeat Gaia observations of the same source. Results: The data release includes GSP-Phot results for 471 million sources with G < 19. Typical differences to literature values are 110K for T-eff and 0.2-0.25 for log g, but these depend strongly on data quality. In particular, GSP-Phot results are significantly better for stars with good parallax measurements (pi/sigma(pi) > 20), mostly within 2 kpc. Metallicity estimates exhibit substantial biases compared to literature values and are only useful at a qualitative level. However, we provide an empirical calibration of our metallicity estimates that largely removes these biases. Extinctions A(0) and A(BP) show typical di fferences from reference values of 0.07-0.09 mag. MCMC samples of the parameters are also available for 95% of the sources. Conclusions: GSP-Phot provides a homogeneous catalogue of

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21. Gaia Data Release 2 The celestial reference frame (Gaia-CRF2)

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Mignard, F., Klioner, S. A., Lindegren, L., Hernandez, J., Bastian, U., Bombrun, A., Hobbs, D., Lammers, U., Michalik, D., Ramos-Lerate, M., Biermann, M., Fernandez-Hernandez, J., Geyer, R., Hilger, T., Siddiqui, H. I., Steidelmueller, H., Babusiaux, C., Barache, C., Lambert, S., Andrei, A. H., Bourda, G., Charlot, P., Brown, A. G. A., Vallenari, A., Prusti, T., de Bruijne, J. H. J., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Evans, D. W., Eyer, L., Jansen, F., Jordi, C., Luri, X., Panem, C., Pourbaix, D., Randich, S., Sartoretti, P., Soubiran, C., van Leeuwen, F., Walton, N. A., Arenou, F., Cropper, M., Drimmel, R., Katz, D., Lattanzi, M. G., Bakker, J., Cacciari, C., Castaneda, J., Chaoul, L., Cheek, N., De Angeli, F., Fabricius, C., Guerra, R., Holl, B., Masana, E., Messineo, R., Mowlavi, N., Nienartowicz, K., Panuzzo, P., Portell, J., Riello, M., Seabroke, G. M., Tanga, P., Thevenin, F., Gracia-Abril, G., Comoretto, G., Garcia-Reinaldos, M., Teyssier, D., Altmann, M., Andrae, R., Audard, M., Bellas-Velidis, I., Benson, K., Berthier, J., Blomme, R., Burgess, P., Busso, G., Carry, B., Cellino, A., Clementini, G., Clotet, M., Creevey, O., Davidson, M., De Ridder, J., Delchambre, L., Dell'Oro, A., Ducourant, C., Fouesneau, M., Fremat, Y., Galluccio, L., Garcia-Torres, M., Gonzalez-Nunez, J., Gonzalez-Vidal, J. J., Gosset, E., Guy, L. P., Halbwachs, J. -L, Hambly, N. C., Harrison, D. L., Hestroffer, D., Hodgkin, S. T., Hutton, A., Jasniewicz, G., Jean-Antoine-Piccolo, A., Jordan, S., Korn, Andreas, Krone-Martins, A., Lanzafame, A. C., Lebzelter, T., Loeffler, W., Manteiga, M., Marrese, P. M., Martin-Fleitas, J. M., Moitinho, A., Mora, A., Muinonen, K., Osinde, J., Pancino, E., Pauwels, T., Petit, J. -M, Recio-Blanco, A., Richards, P. J., Rimoldini, L., Robin, A. C., Sarro, L. M., Siopis, C., Smith, M., Sozzetti, A., Sueveges, M., Torra, J., van Reeven, W., Abbas, U., Abreu Aramburu, A., Accart, S., Aerts, C., Altavilla, G., Alvarez, M. A., Alvarez, R., Alves, J., Anderson, R. I., Anglada Varela, E., Antiche, E., Antoja, T., Arcay, B., Astraatmadja, T. L., Bach, N., Baker, S. G., Balaguer-Nunez, L., Balm, P., Barata, C., Barbato, D., Barblan, F., Barklem, Paul, Barrado, D., Barros, M., Barstow, M. A., Bartholome Munoz, S., Bassilana, J. -L, Becciani, U., Bellazzini, M., Berihuete, A., Bertone, S., Bianchi, L., Bienayme, O., Blanco-Cuaresma, S., Boch, T., Boeche, C., Borrachero, R., Bossini, D., Bouquillon, S., Bragaglia, A., Bramante, L., Breddels, M. A., Bressan, A., Brouillet, N., Bruesemeister, T., Brugaletta, E., Bucciarelli, B., Burlacu, A., Busonero, D., Butkevich, A. G., Buzzi, R., Caffau, E., Cancelliere, R., Cannizzaro, G., Cantat-Gaudin, T., Carballo, R., Carlucci, T., Carrasco, J. 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B., Teixeira, R., Terrett, D., Teyssandier, P., Thuillot, W., Titarenko, A., Torra Clotet, F., Turon, C., Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Uzzi, S., Vaillant, M., Valentini, G., Valette, V., van Elteren, A., Van Hemelryck, E., van Leeuwen, M., Vaschetto, M., Vecchiato, A., Veljanoski, J., Viala, Y., Vicente, D., Vogt, S., von Essen, C., Voss, H., Votruba, V., Voutsinas, S., Walmsley, G., Weiler, M., Wertz, O., Wevers, T., Wyrzykowski, L., Yoldas, A., Zerjal, M., Ziaeepour, H., Zorec, J., Zschocke, S., Zucker, S., Zurbach, C., Zwitter, T., Mignard, F., Klioner, S. A., Lindegren, L., Hernandez, J., Bastian, U., Bombrun, A., Hobbs, D., Lammers, U., Michalik, D., Ramos-Lerate, M., Biermann, M., Fernandez-Hernandez, J., Geyer, R., Hilger, T., Siddiqui, H. I., Steidelmueller, H., Babusiaux, C., Barache, C., Lambert, S., Andrei, A. H., Bourda, G., Charlot, P., Brown, A. G. A., Vallenari, A., Prusti, T., de Bruijne, J. H. J., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Evans, D. W., Eyer, L., Jansen, F., Jordi, C., Luri, X., Panem, C., Pourbaix, D., Randich, S., Sartoretti, P., Soubiran, C., van Leeuwen, F., Walton, N. A., Arenou, F., Cropper, M., Drimmel, R., Katz, D., Lattanzi, M. G., Bakker, J., Cacciari, C., Castaneda, J., Chaoul, L., Cheek, N., De Angeli, F., Fabricius, C., Guerra, R., Holl, B., Masana, E., Messineo, R., Mowlavi, N., Nienartowicz, K., Panuzzo, P., Portell, J., Riello, M., Seabroke, G. M., Tanga, P., Thevenin, F., Gracia-Abril, G., Comoretto, G., Garcia-Reinaldos, M., Teyssier, D., Altmann, M., Andrae, R., Audard, M., Bellas-Velidis, I., Benson, K., Berthier, J., Blomme, R., Burgess, P., Busso, G., Carry, B., Cellino, A., Clementini, G., Clotet, M., Creevey, O., Davidson, M., De Ridder, J., Delchambre, L., Dell'Oro, A., Ducourant, C., Fouesneau, M., Fremat, Y., Galluccio, L., Garcia-Torres, M., Gonzalez-Nunez, J., Gonzalez-Vidal, J. J., Gosset, E., Guy, L. P., Halbwachs, J. -L, Hambly, N. C., Harrison, D. L., Hestroffer, D., Hodgkin, S. 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A., Bartholome Munoz, S., Bassilana, J. -L, Becciani, U., Bellazzini, M., Berihuete, A., Bertone, S., Bianchi, L., Bienayme, O., Blanco-Cuaresma, S., Boch, T., Boeche, C., Borrachero, R., Bossini, D., Bouquillon, S., Bragaglia, A., Bramante, L., Breddels, M. A., Bressan, A., Brouillet, N., Bruesemeister, T., Brugaletta, E., Bucciarelli, B., Burlacu, A., Busonero, D., Butkevich, A. G., Buzzi, R., Caffau, E., Cancelliere, R., Cannizzaro, G., Cantat-Gaudin, T., Carballo, R., Carlucci, T., Carrasco, J. M., Casamiquela, L., Castellani, M., Castro-Ginard, A., Chemin, L., Chiavassa, A., Cocozza, G., Costigan, G., Cowell, S., Crifo, F., Crosta, M., Crowley, C., Cuypers, J., Dafonte, C., Damerdji, Y., Dapergolas, A., David, P., David, M., de Laverny, P., De Luise, F., De March, R., de Souza, R., de Torres, A., Debosscher, J., del Pozo, E., Delbo, M., Delgado, A., Delgado, H. E., Diakite, S., Diener, C., Distefano, E., Dolding, C., Drazinos, P., Duran, J., Edvardsson, Bengt, Enke, H., Eriksson, Kjell, Esquej, P., Bontemps, G. Eynard, Fabre, C., Fabrizio, M., Faigler, S., Falcao, A. J., Farras Casas, M., Federici, L., Fedorets, G., Fernique, P., Figueras, F., Filippi, F., Findeisen, K., Fonti, A., Fraile, E., Fraser, M., Frezouls, B., Gai, M., Galleti, S., Garabato, D., Garcia-Sedano, F., Garofalo, A., Garralda, N., Gavel, Alvin, Gavras, P., Gerssen, J., Giacobbe, P., Gilmore, G., Girona, S., Giuffrida, G., Glass, F., Gomes, M., Granvik, M., Gueguen, A., Guerrier, A., Guiraud, J., Gutierrez-Sanchez, R., Haigron, R., Hatzidimitriou, D., Hauser, M., Haywood, M., Heiter, Ulrike, Helmi, A., Heu, J., Hofmann, W., Holland, G., Huckle, H. E., Hypki, A., Icardi, V., Janssen, K., de Fombelle, G. Jevardat, Jonker, P. G., Juhasz, A. L., Julbe, F., Karampelas, A., Kewley, A., Klar, J., Kochoska, A., Kohley, R., Kolenberg, K., Kontizas, M., Kontizas, E., Koposov, S. 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Context: The second release of Gaia data (Gaia DR2) contains the astrometric parameters for more than half a million quasars. This set defines a kinematically non-rotating reference frame in the optical domain. A subset of these quasars have accurate VLBI positions that allow the axes of the reference frame to be aligned with the International Celestial Reference System (ICRF) radio frame. Aims: We describe the astrometric and photometric properties of the quasars that were selected to represent the celestial reference frame of Gaia DR2 (Gaia-CRF2), and to compare the optical and radio positions for sources with accurate VLBI positions. Methods: Descriptive statistics are used to characterise the overall properties of the quasar sample. Residual rotation and orientation errors and large-scale systematics are quantified by means of expansions in vector spherical harmonics. Positional differences are calculated relative to a prototype version of the forthcoming ICRF3. Results: Gaia-CRF2 consists of the positions of a sample of 556 869 sources in Gaia DR2, obtained from a positional cross-match with the ICRF3-prototype and AllWISE AGN catalogues. The sample constitutes a clean, dense, and homogeneous set of extragalactic point sources in the magnitude range G similar or equal to 16 to 21 mag with accurately known optical positions. The median positional uncertainty is 0.12 mas for G < 18 mag and 0.5 mas at G = 20 mag. Large-scale systematics are estimated to be in the range 20 to 30 mu as. The accuracy claims are supported by the parallaxes and proper motions of the quasars in Gaia DR2. The optical positions for a subset of 2820 sources in common with the ICRF3-prototype show very good overall agreement with the radio positions, but several tens of sources have significantly discrepant positions. Conclusions: Based on less than 40% of the data expected from the nominal Gaia mission, Gaia-CRF2 is the first realisation of a non-rotating global optical reference frame

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22. Gaia Data Release 2 : Observations of solar system objects

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Spoto, F., Tanga, P., Mignard, F., Berthier, J., Carry, B., Cellino, A., Dell'Oro, A., Hestroffer, D., Muinonen, K., Pauwels, T., Petit, J. -M, David, P., De Angeli, F., Delbo, M., Frezouls, B., Galluccio, L., Granvik, M., Guiraud, J., Hernandez, J., Ordenovic, C., Portell, J., Poujoulet, E., Thuillot, W., Walmsley, G., Brown, A. G. A., Vallenari, A., Prusti, T., de Bruijne, J. H. J., Babusiaux, C., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Biermann, M., Evans, D. W., Eyer, L., Jansen, F., Jordi, C., Klioner, S. A., Lammers, U., Lindegren, L., Luri, X., Panem, C., Pourbaix, D., Randich, S., Sartoretti, P., Siddiqui, H. I., Soubiran, C., van Leeuwen, F., Walton, N. A., Arenou, F., Bastian, U., Cropper, M., Drimmel, R., Katz, D., Lattanzi, M. G., Bakker, J., Cacciari, C., Castaneda, J., Chaoul, L., Cheek, N., Fabricius, C., Guerra, R., Holl, B., Masana, E., Messineo, R., Mowlavi, N., Nienartowicz, K., Panuzzo, P., Riello, M., Seabroke, G. M., Thevenin, F., Gracia-Abril, G., Comoretto, G., Garcia-Reinaldos, M., Teyssier, D., Altmann, M., Andrae, R., Audard, M., Bellas-Velidis, I., Benson, K., Blomme, R., Burgess, P., Busso, G., Clementini, G., Clotet, M., Creevey, O., Davidson, M., De Ridder, J., Delchambre, L., Ducourant, C., Fernandez-Hernandez, J., Fouesneau, M., Fremat, Y., Garcia-Torres, M., Gonzalez-Nunez, J., Gonzalez-Vidal, J. J., Gosset, E., Guy, L. P., Halbwachs, J. -L, Hambly, N. C., Harrison, D. L., Hodgkin, S. T., Hutton, A., Jasniewicz, G., Jean-Antoine-Piccolo, A., Jordan, S., Korn, Andreas, Krone-Martins, A., Lanzafame, A. C., Lebzelter, T., Loeffler, W., Manteiga, M., Marrese, P. M., Martin-Fleitas, J. M., Moitinho, A., Mora, A., Osinde, J., Pancino, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Richards, P. J., Rimoldini, L., Robin, A. C., Sarro, L. M., Siopis, C., Smith, M., Sozzetti, A., Sueveges, M., Torra, J., van Reeven, W., Abbas, U., Abreu Aramburu, A., Accart, S., Aerts, C., Altavilla, G., Alvarez, M. 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Context: The Gaia spacecraft of the European Space Agency (ESA) has been securing observations of solar system objects (SSOs) since the beginning of its operations. Data Release 2 (DR2) contains the observations of a selected sample of 14,099 SSOs. These asteroids have been already identified and have been numbered by the Minor Planet Center repository. Positions are provided for each Gaia observation at CCD level. As additional information, complementary to astrometry, the apparent brightness of SSOs in the unfiltered G band is also provided for selected observations. Aims: We explain the processing of SSO data, and describe the criteria we used to select the sample published in Gaia DR2. We then explore the data set to assess its quality. Methods: To exploit the main data product for the solar system in Gaia DR2, which is the epoch astrometry of asteroids, it is necessary to take into account the unusual properties of the uncertainty, as the position information is nearly one-dimensional. When this aspect is handled appropriately, an orbit fit can be obtained with post-fit residuals that are overall consistent with the a-priori error model that was used to define individual values of the astrometric uncertainty. The role of both random and systematic errors is described. The distribution of residuals allowed us to identify possible contaminants in the data set (such as stars). Photometry in the G band was compared to computed values from reference asteroid shapes and to the flux registered at the corresponding epochs by the red and blue photometers (RP and BP). Results: The overall astrometric performance is close to the expectations, with an optimal range of brightness G similar to 12 - 17. In this range, the typical transit-level accuracy is well below 1 mas. For fainter asteroids, the growing photon noise deteriorates the performance. Asteroids brighter than G similar to 12 are affected by a lower performance of the processing of their signals. The dramatic imp

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Spoto, F., Tanga, P., Mignard, F., Berthier, J., Carry, B., Cellino, A., Dell'Oro, A., Hestroffer, D., Muinonen, K., Pauwels, T., Petit, J. -M, David, P., De Angeli, F., Delbo, M., Frezouls, B., Galluccio, L., Granvik, M., Guiraud, J., Hernandez, J., Ordenovic, C., Portell, J., Poujoulet, E., Thuillot, W., Walmsley, G., Brown, A. G. A., Vallenari, A., Prusti, T., de Bruijne, J. H. J., Babusiaux, C., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Biermann, M., Evans, D. W., Eyer, L., Jansen, F., Jordi, C., Klioner, S. A., Lammers, U., Lindegren, L., Luri, X., Panem, C., Pourbaix, D., Randich, S., Sartoretti, P., Siddiqui, H. I., Soubiran, C., van Leeuwen, F., Walton, N. A., Arenou, F., Bastian, U., Cropper, M., Drimmel, R., Katz, D., Lattanzi, M. G., Bakker, J., Cacciari, C., Castaneda, J., Chaoul, L., Cheek, N., Fabricius, C., Guerra, R., Holl, B., Masana, E., Messineo, R., Mowlavi, N., Nienartowicz, K., Panuzzo, P., Riello, M., Seabroke, G. M., Thevenin, F., Gracia-Abril, G., Comoretto, G., Garcia-Reinaldos, M., Teyssier, D., Altmann, M., Andrae, R., Audard, M., Bellas-Velidis, I., Benson, K., Blomme, R., Burgess, P., Busso, G., Clementini, G., Clotet, M., Creevey, O., Davidson, M., De Ridder, J., Delchambre, L., Ducourant, C., Fernandez-Hernandez, J., Fouesneau, M., Fremat, Y., Garcia-Torres, M., Gonzalez-Nunez, J., Gonzalez-Vidal, J. J., Gosset, E., Guy, L. P., Halbwachs, J. -L, Hambly, N. C., Harrison, D. L., Hodgkin, S. T., Hutton, A., Jasniewicz, G., Jean-Antoine-Piccolo, A., Jordan, S., Korn, Andreas, Krone-Martins, A., Lanzafame, A. C., Lebzelter, T., Loeffler, W., Manteiga, M., Marrese, P. M., Martin-Fleitas, J. M., Moitinho, A., Mora, A., Osinde, J., Pancino, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Richards, P. J., Rimoldini, L., Robin, A. C., Sarro, L. M., Siopis, C., Smith, M., Sozzetti, A., Sueveges, M., Torra, J., van Reeven, W., Abbas, U., Abreu Aramburu, A., Accart, S., Aerts, C., Altavilla, G., Alvarez, M. 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Context: The Gaia spacecraft of the European Space Agency (ESA) has been securing observations of solar system objects (SSOs) since the beginning of its operations. Data Release 2 (DR2) contains the observations of a selected sample of 14,099 SSOs. These asteroids have been already identified and have been numbered by the Minor Planet Center repository. Positions are provided for each Gaia observation at CCD level. As additional information, complementary to astrometry, the apparent brightness of SSOs in the unfiltered G band is also provided for selected observations. Aims: We explain the processing of SSO data, and describe the criteria we used to select the sample published in Gaia DR2. We then explore the data set to assess its quality. Methods: To exploit the main data product for the solar system in Gaia DR2, which is the epoch astrometry of asteroids, it is necessary to take into account the unusual properties of the uncertainty, as the position information is nearly one-dimensional. When this aspect is handled appropriately, an orbit fit can be obtained with post-fit residuals that are overall consistent with the a-priori error model that was used to define individual values of the astrometric uncertainty. The role of both random and systematic errors is described. The distribution of residuals allowed us to identify possible contaminants in the data set (such as stars). Photometry in the G band was compared to computed values from reference asteroid shapes and to the flux registered at the corresponding epochs by the red and blue photometers (RP and BP). Results: The overall astrometric performance is close to the expectations, with an optimal range of brightness G similar to 12 - 17. In this range, the typical transit-level accuracy is well below 1 mas. For fainter asteroids, the growing photon noise deteriorates the performance. Asteroids brighter than G similar to 12 are affected by a lower performance of the processing of their signals. The dramatic imp

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Spoto, F., Tanga, P., Mignard, F., Berthier, J., Carry, B., Cellino, A., Dell'Oro, A., Hestroffer, D., Muinonen, K., Pauwels, T., Petit, J. -M, David, P., De Angeli, F., Delbo, M., Frezouls, B., Galluccio, L., Granvik, M., Guiraud, J., Hernandez, J., Ordenovic, C., Portell, J., Poujoulet, E., Thuillot, W., Walmsley, G., Brown, A. G. A., Vallenari, A., Prusti, T., de Bruijne, J. H. J., Babusiaux, C., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Biermann, M., Evans, D. W., Eyer, L., Jansen, F., Jordi, C., Klioner, S. A., Lammers, U., Lindegren, L., Luri, X., Panem, C., Pourbaix, D., Randich, S., Sartoretti, P., Siddiqui, H. I., Soubiran, C., van Leeuwen, F., Walton, N. A., Arenou, F., Bastian, U., Cropper, M., Drimmel, R., Katz, D., Lattanzi, M. G., Bakker, J., Cacciari, C., Castaneda, J., Chaoul, L., Cheek, N., Fabricius, C., Guerra, R., Holl, B., Masana, E., Messineo, R., Mowlavi, N., Nienartowicz, K., Panuzzo, P., Riello, M., Seabroke, G. 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Context: The Gaia spacecraft of the European Space Agency (ESA) has been securing observations of solar system objects (SSOs) since the beginning of its operations. Data Release 2 (DR2) contains the observations of a selected sample of 14,099 SSOs. These asteroids have been already identified and have been numbered by the Minor Planet Center repository. Positions are provided for each Gaia observation at CCD level. As additional information, complementary to astrometry, the apparent brightness of SSOs in the unfiltered G band is also provided for selected observations. Aims: We explain the processing of SSO data, and describe the criteria we used to select the sample published in Gaia DR2. We then explore the data set to assess its quality. Methods: To exploit the main data product for the solar system in Gaia DR2, which is the epoch astrometry of asteroids, it is necessary to take into account the unusual properties of the uncertainty, as the position information is nearly one-dimensional. When this aspect is handled appropriately, an orbit fit can be obtained with post-fit residuals that are overall consistent with the a-priori error model that was used to define individual values of the astrometric uncertainty. The role of both random and systematic errors is described. The distribution of residuals allowed us to identify possible contaminants in the data set (such as stars). Photometry in the G band was compared to computed values from reference asteroid shapes and to the flux registered at the corresponding epochs by the red and blue photometers (RP and BP). Results: The overall astrometric performance is close to the expectations, with an optimal range of brightness G similar to 12 - 17. In this range, the typical transit-level accuracy is well below 1 mas. For fainter asteroids, the growing photon noise deteriorates the performance. Asteroids brighter than G similar to 12 are affected by a lower performance of the processing of their signals. The dramatic imp

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Spoto, F., Tanga, P., Mignard, F., Berthier, J., Carry, B., Cellino, A., Dell'Oro, A., Hestroffer, D., Muinonen, K., Pauwels, T., Petit, J. -M, David, P., De Angeli, F., Delbo, M., Frezouls, B., Galluccio, L., Granvik, M., Guiraud, J., Hernandez, J., Ordenovic, C., Portell, J., Poujoulet, E., Thuillot, W., Walmsley, G., Brown, A. G. A., Vallenari, A., Prusti, T., de Bruijne, J. H. J., Babusiaux, C., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Biermann, M., Evans, D. W., Eyer, L., Jansen, F., Jordi, C., Klioner, S. A., Lammers, U., Lindegren, L., Luri, X., Panem, C., Pourbaix, D., Randich, S., Sartoretti, P., Siddiqui, H. I., Soubiran, C., van Leeuwen, F., Walton, N. A., Arenou, F., Bastian, U., Cropper, M., Drimmel, R., Katz, D., Lattanzi, M. G., Bakker, J., Cacciari, C., Castaneda, J., Chaoul, L., Cheek, N., Fabricius, C., Guerra, R., Holl, B., Masana, E., Messineo, R., Mowlavi, N., Nienartowicz, K., Panuzzo, P., Riello, M., Seabroke, G. 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E., Kordopatis, G., Kostrzewa-Rutkowska, Z., Koubsky, P., Lambert, S., Lanza, A. F., Lasne, Y., Lavigne, J. -B, Le Fustec, Y., Le Poncin-Lafitte, C., Lebreton, Y., Leccia, S., Leclerc, N., Lecoeur-Taibi, I., Lenhardt, H., Leroux, F., Liao, S., Licata, E., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Lister, T. A., Livanou, E., Lobel, A., Lopez, M., Managau, S., Mann, R. G., Mantelet, G., Marchal, O., Marchant, J. M., Marconi, M., Marinoni, S., Marschalko, G., Marshall, D. J., Martino, M., Marton, G., Mary, N., Massari, D., Matijevic, G., Mazeh, T., McMillan, P. J., Messina, S., Michalik, D., Millar, N. R., Molina, D., Molinaro, R., Molnar, L., Montegriffo, P., Mor, R., Morbidelli, R., Morel, T., Morris, D., Mulone, A. F., Muraveva, T., Musella, I., Nelemans, G., Nicastro, L., Noval, L., O'Mullane, W., Ordonez-Blanco, D., Osborne, P., Pagani, C., Pagano, I., Pailler, F., Palacin, H., Palaversa, L., Panahi, A., Pawlak, M., Piersimoni, A. 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B., Teixeira, R., Terrett, D., Teyssandier, P., Titarenko, A., Torra Clotet, F., Turon, C., Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Uzzi, S., Vaillant, M., Valentini, G., Valette, V., van Elteren, A., Van Hemelryck, E., van Leeuwen, M., Vaschetto, M., Vecchiato, A., Veljanoski, J., Viala, Y., Vicente, D., Vogt, S., von Essen, C., Voss, H., Votruba, V., Voutsinas, S., Weiler, M., Wertz, O., Wevers, T., Wyrzykowski, L., Yoldas, A., Zerjal, M., Ziaeepour, H., Zorec, J., Zschocke, S., Zucker, S., Zurbach, C., and Zwitter, T.

Abstract

Context: The Gaia spacecraft of the European Space Agency (ESA) has been securing observations of solar system objects (SSOs) since the beginning of its operations. Data Release 2 (DR2) contains the observations of a selected sample of 14,099 SSOs. These asteroids have been already identified and have been numbered by the Minor Planet Center repository. Positions are provided for each Gaia observation at CCD level. As additional information, complementary to astrometry, the apparent brightness of SSOs in the unfiltered G band is also provided for selected observations. Aims: We explain the processing of SSO data, and describe the criteria we used to select the sample published in Gaia DR2. We then explore the data set to assess its quality. Methods: To exploit the main data product for the solar system in Gaia DR2, which is the epoch astrometry of asteroids, it is necessary to take into account the unusual properties of the uncertainty, as the position information is nearly one-dimensional. When this aspect is handled appropriately, an orbit fit can be obtained with post-fit residuals that are overall consistent with the a-priori error model that was used to define individual values of the astrometric uncertainty. The role of both random and systematic errors is described. The distribution of residuals allowed us to identify possible contaminants in the data set (such as stars). Photometry in the G band was compared to computed values from reference asteroid shapes and to the flux registered at the corresponding epochs by the red and blue photometers (RP and BP). Results: The overall astrometric performance is close to the expectations, with an optimal range of brightness G similar to 12 - 17. In this range, the typical transit-level accuracy is well below 1 mas. For fainter asteroids, the growing photon noise deteriorates the performance. Asteroids brighter than G similar to 12 are affected by a lower performance of the processing of their signals. The dramatic imp

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26. Gaia Data Release 2 : Observations of solar system objects

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Spoto, F., Tanga, P., Mignard, F., Berthier, J., Carry, B., Cellino, A., Dell'Oro, A., Hestroffer, D., Muinonen, K., Pauwels, T., Petit, J. -M, David, P., De Angeli, F., Delbo, M., Frezouls, B., Galluccio, L., Granvik, M., Guiraud, J., Hernandez, J., Ordenovic, C., Portell, J., Poujoulet, E., Thuillot, W., Walmsley, G., Brown, A. G. A., Vallenari, A., Prusti, T., de Bruijne, J. H. J., Babusiaux, C., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Biermann, M., Evans, D. W., Eyer, L., Jansen, F., Jordi, C., Klioner, S. A., Lammers, U., Lindegren, L., Luri, X., Panem, C., Pourbaix, D., Randich, S., Sartoretti, P., Siddiqui, H. I., Soubiran, C., van Leeuwen, F., Walton, N. A., Arenou, F., Bastian, U., Cropper, M., Drimmel, R., Katz, D., Lattanzi, M. G., Bakker, J., Cacciari, C., Castaneda, J., Chaoul, L., Cheek, N., Fabricius, C., Guerra, R., Holl, B., Masana, E., Messineo, R., Mowlavi, N., Nienartowicz, K., Panuzzo, P., Riello, M., Seabroke, G. M., Thevenin, F., Gracia-Abril, G., Comoretto, G., Garcia-Reinaldos, M., Teyssier, D., Altmann, M., Andrae, R., Audard, M., Bellas-Velidis, I., Benson, K., Blomme, R., Burgess, P., Busso, G., Clementini, G., Clotet, M., Creevey, O., Davidson, M., De Ridder, J., Delchambre, L., Ducourant, C., Fernandez-Hernandez, J., Fouesneau, M., Fremat, Y., Garcia-Torres, M., Gonzalez-Nunez, J., Gonzalez-Vidal, J. J., Gosset, E., Guy, L. P., Halbwachs, J. -L, Hambly, N. C., Harrison, D. L., Hodgkin, S. T., Hutton, A., Jasniewicz, G., Jean-Antoine-Piccolo, A., Jordan, S., Korn, Andreas, Krone-Martins, A., Lanzafame, A. C., Lebzelter, T., Loeffler, W., Manteiga, M., Marrese, P. M., Martin-Fleitas, J. M., Moitinho, A., Mora, A., Osinde, J., Pancino, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Richards, P. J., Rimoldini, L., Robin, A. C., Sarro, L. M., Siopis, C., Smith, M., Sozzetti, A., Sueveges, M., Torra, J., van Reeven, W., Abbas, U., Abreu Aramburu, A., Accart, S., Aerts, C., Altavilla, G., Alvarez, M. A., Alvarez, R., Alves, J., Anderson, R. I., Andrei, A. H., Anglada Varela, E., Antiche, E., Antoja, T., Arcay, B., Astraatmadja, T. L., Bach, N., Baker, S. G., Balaguer-Nunez, L., Balm, P., Barache, C., Barata, C., Barbato, D., Barblan, F., Barklem, Paul, Barrado, D., Barros, M., Barstow, M. A., Bartholome Munoz, S., Bassilana, J. -L, Becciani, U., Bellazzini, M., Berihuete, A., Bertone, S., Bianchi, L., Bienayme, O., Blanco-Cuaresma, S., Boch, T., Boeche, C., Bombrun, A., Borrachero, R., Bossini, D., Bouquillon, S., Bourda, G., Bragaglia, A., Bramante, L., Breddels, M. A., Bressan, A., Brouillet, N., Bruesemeister, T., Brugaletta, E., Bucciarelli, B., Burlacu, A., Busonero, D., Butkevich, A. G., Buzzi, R., Caffau, E., Cancelliere, R., Cannizzaro, G., Cantat-Gaudin, T., Carballo, R., Carlucci, T., Carrasco, J. M., Casamiquela, L., Castellani, M., Castro-Ginard, A., Charlot, P., Chemin, L., Chiavassa, A., Cocozza, G., Costigan, G., Cowell, S., Crifo, F., Crosta, M., Crowley, C., Cuypers, J., Dafonte, C., Damerdji, Y., Dapergolas, A., David, M., de Laverny, P., De Luise, F., De March, R., de Souza, R., de Torres, A., Debosscher, J., del Pozo, E., Delgado, A., Delgado, H. E., Diakite, S., Diener, C., Distefano, E., Dolding, C., Drazinos, P., Duran, J., Edvardsson, Bengt, Enke, H., Eriksson, Kjell, Esquej, P., Bontemps, G. Eynard, Fabre, C., Fabrizio, M., Faigler, S., Falcao, A. J., Farras Casas, M., Federici, L., Fedorets, G., Fernique, P., Figueras, F., Filippi, F., Findeisen, K., Fonti, A., Fraile, E., Fraser, M., Gai, M., Galleti, S., Garabato, D., Garcia-Sedano, F., Garofalo, A., Garralda, N., Gavel, Alvin, Gavras, P., Gerssen, J., Geyer, R., Giacobbe, P., Gilmore, G., Girona, S., Giuffrida, G., Glass, F., Gomes, M., Gueguen, A., Guerrier, A., Gutierrez-Sanchez, R., Haigron, R., Hatzidimitriou, D., Hauser, M., Haywood, M., Heiter, Ulrike, Helmi, A., Heu, J., Hilger, T., Hobbs, D., Hofmann, W., Holland, G., Huckle, H. E., Hypki, A., Icardi, V., Janssen, K., de Fombelle, G. Jevardat, Jonker, P. G., Juhasz, A. L., Julbe, F., Karampelas, A., Kewley, A., Klar, J., Kochoska, A., Kohley, R., Kolenberg, K., Kontizas, M., Kontizas, E., Koposov, S. E., Kordopatis, G., Kostrzewa-Rutkowska, Z., Koubsky, P., Lambert, S., Lanza, A. F., Lasne, Y., Lavigne, J. -B, Le Fustec, Y., Le Poncin-Lafitte, C., Lebreton, Y., Leccia, S., Leclerc, N., Lecoeur-Taibi, I., Lenhardt, H., Leroux, F., Liao, S., Licata, E., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Lister, T. A., Livanou, E., Lobel, A., Lopez, M., Managau, S., Mann, R. G., Mantelet, G., Marchal, O., Marchant, J. M., Marconi, M., Marinoni, S., Marschalko, G., Marshall, D. J., Martino, M., Marton, G., Mary, N., Massari, D., Matijevic, G., Mazeh, T., McMillan, P. J., Messina, S., Michalik, D., Millar, N. R., Molina, D., Molinaro, R., Molnar, L., Montegriffo, P., Mor, R., Morbidelli, R., Morel, T., Morris, D., Mulone, A. F., Muraveva, T., Musella, I., Nelemans, G., Nicastro, L., Noval, L., O'Mullane, W., Ordonez-Blanco, D., Osborne, P., Pagani, C., Pagano, I., Pailler, F., Palacin, H., Palaversa, L., Panahi, A., Pawlak, M., Piersimoni, A. M., Pineau, F. -X, Plachy, E., Plum, G., Poggio, E., Prsa, A., Pulone, L., Racero, E., Ragaini, S., Rambaux, N., Ramos-Lerate, M., Regibo, S., Reyle, C., Riclet, F., Ripepi, V., Riva, A., Rivard, A., Rixon, G., Roegiers, T., Roelens, M., Romero-Gomez, M., Rowell, N., Royer, F., Ruiz-Dern, L., Sadowski, G., Selles, T. Sagrista, Sahlmann, J., Salgado, J., Salguero, E., Sanna, N., Santana-Ros, T., Sarasso, M., Savietto, H., Schultheis, M., Sciacca, E., Segol, M., Segovia, J. C., Segransan, D., Shih, I-C, Siltala, L., Silva, A. F., Smart, R. L., Smith, K. W., Solano, E., Solitro, F., Sordo, R., Soria Nieto, S., Souchay, J., Spagna, A., Stampa, U., Steele, I. A., Steidelmueller, H., Stephenson, C. A., Stoev, H., Suess, F. F., Surdej, J., Szabados, L., Szegedi-Elek, E., Tapiador, D., Taris, F., Tauran, G., Taylor, M. B., Teixeira, R., Terrett, D., Teyssandier, P., Titarenko, A., Torra Clotet, F., Turon, C., Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Uzzi, S., Vaillant, M., Valentini, G., Valette, V., van Elteren, A., Van Hemelryck, E., van Leeuwen, M., Vaschetto, M., Vecchiato, A., Veljanoski, J., Viala, Y., Vicente, D., Vogt, S., von Essen, C., Voss, H., Votruba, V., Voutsinas, S., Weiler, M., Wertz, O., Wevers, T., Wyrzykowski, L., Yoldas, A., Zerjal, M., Ziaeepour, H., Zorec, J., Zschocke, S., Zucker, S., Zurbach, C., Zwitter, T., Spoto, F., Tanga, P., Mignard, F., Berthier, J., Carry, B., Cellino, A., Dell'Oro, A., Hestroffer, D., Muinonen, K., Pauwels, T., Petit, J. -M, David, P., De Angeli, F., Delbo, M., Frezouls, B., Galluccio, L., Granvik, M., Guiraud, J., Hernandez, J., Ordenovic, C., Portell, J., Poujoulet, E., Thuillot, W., Walmsley, G., Brown, A. G. A., Vallenari, A., Prusti, T., de Bruijne, J. H. J., Babusiaux, C., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Biermann, M., Evans, D. W., Eyer, L., Jansen, F., Jordi, C., Klioner, S. A., Lammers, U., Lindegren, L., Luri, X., Panem, C., Pourbaix, D., Randich, S., Sartoretti, P., Siddiqui, H. I., Soubiran, C., van Leeuwen, F., Walton, N. A., Arenou, F., Bastian, U., Cropper, M., Drimmel, R., Katz, D., Lattanzi, M. G., Bakker, J., Cacciari, C., Castaneda, J., Chaoul, L., Cheek, N., Fabricius, C., Guerra, R., Holl, B., Masana, E., Messineo, R., Mowlavi, N., Nienartowicz, K., Panuzzo, P., Riello, M., Seabroke, G. M., Thevenin, F., Gracia-Abril, G., Comoretto, G., Garcia-Reinaldos, M., Teyssier, D., Altmann, M., Andrae, R., Audard, M., Bellas-Velidis, I., Benson, K., Blomme, R., Burgess, P., Busso, G., Clementini, G., Clotet, M., Creevey, O., Davidson, M., De Ridder, J., Delchambre, L., Ducourant, C., Fernandez-Hernandez, J., Fouesneau, M., Fremat, Y., Garcia-Torres, M., Gonzalez-Nunez, J., Gonzalez-Vidal, J. J., Gosset, E., Guy, L. P., Halbwachs, J. -L, Hambly, N. C., Harrison, D. L., Hodgkin, S. T., Hutton, A., Jasniewicz, G., Jean-Antoine-Piccolo, A., Jordan, S., Korn, Andreas, Krone-Martins, A., Lanzafame, A. C., Lebzelter, T., Loeffler, W., Manteiga, M., Marrese, P. M., Martin-Fleitas, J. M., Moitinho, A., Mora, A., Osinde, J., Pancino, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Richards, P. J., Rimoldini, L., Robin, A. C., Sarro, L. M., Siopis, C., Smith, M., Sozzetti, A., Sueveges, M., Torra, J., van Reeven, W., Abbas, U., Abreu Aramburu, A., Accart, S., Aerts, C., Altavilla, G., Alvarez, M. A., Alvarez, R., Alves, J., Anderson, R. I., Andrei, A. H., Anglada Varela, E., Antiche, E., Antoja, T., Arcay, B., Astraatmadja, T. L., Bach, N., Baker, S. G., Balaguer-Nunez, L., Balm, P., Barache, C., Barata, C., Barbato, D., Barblan, F., Barklem, Paul, Barrado, D., Barros, M., Barstow, M. A., Bartholome Munoz, S., Bassilana, J. -L, Becciani, U., Bellazzini, M., Berihuete, A., Bertone, S., Bianchi, L., Bienayme, O., Blanco-Cuaresma, S., Boch, T., Boeche, C., Bombrun, A., Borrachero, R., Bossini, D., Bouquillon, S., Bourda, G., Bragaglia, A., Bramante, L., Breddels, M. A., Bressan, A., Brouillet, N., Bruesemeister, T., Brugaletta, E., Bucciarelli, B., Burlacu, A., Busonero, D., Butkevich, A. G., Buzzi, R., Caffau, E., Cancelliere, R., Cannizzaro, G., Cantat-Gaudin, T., Carballo, R., Carlucci, T., Carrasco, J. M., Casamiquela, L., Castellani, M., Castro-Ginard, A., Charlot, P., Chemin, L., Chiavassa, A., Cocozza, G., Costigan, G., Cowell, S., Crifo, F., Crosta, M., Crowley, C., Cuypers, J., Dafonte, C., Damerdji, Y., Dapergolas, A., David, M., de Laverny, P., De Luise, F., De March, R., de Souza, R., de Torres, A., Debosscher, J., del Pozo, E., Delgado, A., Delgado, H. E., Diakite, S., Diener, C., Distefano, E., Dolding, C., Drazinos, P., Duran, J., Edvardsson, Bengt, Enke, H., Eriksson, Kjell, Esquej, P., Bontemps, G. Eynard, Fabre, C., Fabrizio, M., Faigler, S., Falcao, A. J., Farras Casas, M., Federici, L., Fedorets, G., Fernique, P., Figueras, F., Filippi, F., Findeisen, K., Fonti, A., Fraile, E., Fraser, M., Gai, M., Galleti, S., Garabato, D., Garcia-Sedano, F., Garofalo, A., Garralda, N., Gavel, Alvin, Gavras, P., Gerssen, J., Geyer, R., Giacobbe, P., Gilmore, G., Girona, S., Giuffrida, G., Glass, F., Gomes, M., Gueguen, A., Guerrier, A., Gutierrez-Sanchez, R., Haigron, R., Hatzidimitriou, D., Hauser, M., Haywood, M., Heiter, Ulrike, Helmi, A., Heu, J., Hilger, T., Hobbs, D., Hofmann, W., Holland, G., Huckle, H. E., Hypki, A., Icardi, V., Janssen, K., de Fombelle, G. Jevardat, Jonker, P. G., Juhasz, A. L., Julbe, F., Karampelas, A., Kewley, A., Klar, J., Kochoska, A., Kohley, R., Kolenberg, K., Kontizas, M., Kontizas, E., Koposov, S. E., Kordopatis, G., Kostrzewa-Rutkowska, Z., Koubsky, P., Lambert, S., Lanza, A. F., Lasne, Y., Lavigne, J. -B, Le Fustec, Y., Le Poncin-Lafitte, C., Lebreton, Y., Leccia, S., Leclerc, N., Lecoeur-Taibi, I., Lenhardt, H., Leroux, F., Liao, S., Licata, E., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Lister, T. A., Livanou, E., Lobel, A., Lopez, M., Managau, S., Mann, R. G., Mantelet, G., Marchal, O., Marchant, J. M., Marconi, M., Marinoni, S., Marschalko, G., Marshall, D. J., Martino, M., Marton, G., Mary, N., Massari, D., Matijevic, G., Mazeh, T., McMillan, P. J., Messina, S., Michalik, D., Millar, N. R., Molina, D., Molinaro, R., Molnar, L., Montegriffo, P., Mor, R., Morbidelli, R., Morel, T., Morris, D., Mulone, A. F., Muraveva, T., Musella, I., Nelemans, G., Nicastro, L., Noval, L., O'Mullane, W., Ordonez-Blanco, D., Osborne, P., Pagani, C., Pagano, I., Pailler, F., Palacin, H., Palaversa, L., Panahi, A., Pawlak, M., Piersimoni, A. M., Pineau, F. -X, Plachy, E., Plum, G., Poggio, E., Prsa, A., Pulone, L., Racero, E., Ragaini, S., Rambaux, N., Ramos-Lerate, M., Regibo, S., Reyle, C., Riclet, F., Ripepi, V., Riva, A., Rivard, A., Rixon, G., Roegiers, T., Roelens, M., Romero-Gomez, M., Rowell, N., Royer, F., Ruiz-Dern, L., Sadowski, G., Selles, T. Sagrista, Sahlmann, J., Salgado, J., Salguero, E., Sanna, N., Santana-Ros, T., Sarasso, M., Savietto, H., Schultheis, M., Sciacca, E., Segol, M., Segovia, J. C., Segransan, D., Shih, I-C, Siltala, L., Silva, A. F., Smart, R. L., Smith, K. W., Solano, E., Solitro, F., Sordo, R., Soria Nieto, S., Souchay, J., Spagna, A., Stampa, U., Steele, I. A., Steidelmueller, H., Stephenson, C. A., Stoev, H., Suess, F. F., Surdej, J., Szabados, L., Szegedi-Elek, E., Tapiador, D., Taris, F., Tauran, G., Taylor, M. B., Teixeira, R., Terrett, D., Teyssandier, P., Titarenko, A., Torra Clotet, F., Turon, C., Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Uzzi, S., Vaillant, M., Valentini, G., Valette, V., van Elteren, A., Van Hemelryck, E., van Leeuwen, M., Vaschetto, M., Vecchiato, A., Veljanoski, J., Viala, Y., Vicente, D., Vogt, S., von Essen, C., Voss, H., Votruba, V., Voutsinas, S., Weiler, M., Wertz, O., Wevers, T., Wyrzykowski, L., Yoldas, A., Zerjal, M., Ziaeepour, H., Zorec, J., Zschocke, S., Zucker, S., Zurbach, C., and Zwitter, T.

Abstract

Context: The Gaia spacecraft of the European Space Agency (ESA) has been securing observations of solar system objects (SSOs) since the beginning of its operations. Data Release 2 (DR2) contains the observations of a selected sample of 14,099 SSOs. These asteroids have been already identified and have been numbered by the Minor Planet Center repository. Positions are provided for each Gaia observation at CCD level. As additional information, complementary to astrometry, the apparent brightness of SSOs in the unfiltered G band is also provided for selected observations. Aims: We explain the processing of SSO data, and describe the criteria we used to select the sample published in Gaia DR2. We then explore the data set to assess its quality. Methods: To exploit the main data product for the solar system in Gaia DR2, which is the epoch astrometry of asteroids, it is necessary to take into account the unusual properties of the uncertainty, as the position information is nearly one-dimensional. When this aspect is handled appropriately, an orbit fit can be obtained with post-fit residuals that are overall consistent with the a-priori error model that was used to define individual values of the astrometric uncertainty. The role of both random and systematic errors is described. The distribution of residuals allowed us to identify possible contaminants in the data set (such as stars). Photometry in the G band was compared to computed values from reference asteroid shapes and to the flux registered at the corresponding epochs by the red and blue photometers (RP and BP). Results: The overall astrometric performance is close to the expectations, with an optimal range of brightness G similar to 12 - 17. In this range, the typical transit-level accuracy is well below 1 mas. For fainter asteroids, the growing photon noise deteriorates the performance. Asteroids brighter than G similar to 12 are affected by a lower performance of the processing of their signals. The dramatic imp

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27. Testing parallaxes with local Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars

Author

Clementini, G., Eyer, L., Ripepi, V., Marconi, M., Muraveva, T., Garofalo, A., Sarro, L. M., Palmer, M., Luri, X., Molinaro, R., Rimoldini, L., Szabados, L., Musella, I., Anderson, R. I., Prusti, T., de Bruijne, J. H. J., Brown, A. G. A., Vallenari, A., Babusiaux, C., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Bastian, U., Biermann, M., Evans, D. W., Jansen, F., Jordi, C., Klioner, S. A., Lammers, U., Lindegren, L., Mignard, F., Panem, C., Pourbaix, D., Randich, S., Sartoretti, P., Siddiqui, H. I., Soubiran, C., Valette, V., van Leeuwen, F., Walton, N. A., Aerts, C., Arenou, F., Cropper, M., Drimmel, R., Hog, E., Katz, D., Lattanzi, M. G., O'Mullane, W., Grebel, E. K., Holland, A. D., Huc, C., Passot, X., Perryman, M., Bramante, L., Cacciari, C., Castaneda, J., Chaoul, L., Cheek, N., De Angeli, F., Fabricius, C., Guerra, R., Hernandez, J., Jean-Antoine-Piccolo, A., Masana, E., Messineo, R., Mowlavi, N., Nienartowicz, K., Ordonez-Blanco, D., Panuzzo, P., Portell, J., Richards, P. J., Riello, M., Seabroke, G. M., Tanga, P., Thevenin, F., Torra, J., Els, S. G., Gracia-Abril, G., Comoretto, G., Garcia-Reinaldos, M., Lock, T., Mercier, E., Altmann, M., Andrae, R., Astraatmadja, T. L., Bellas-Velidis, I., Benson, K., Berthier, J., Blomme, R., Busso, G., Carry, B., Cellino, A., Cowell, S., Creevey, O., Cuypers, J., Davidson, M., De Ridder, J., de Torres, A., Delchambre, L., Dell'Oro, A., Ducourant, C., Fremat, Y., Garcia-Torres, M., Gosset, E., Halbwachs, J. -L, Hambly, N. C., Harrison, D. L., Hauser, M., Hestroffer, D., Hodgkin, S. T., Huckle, H. E., Hutton, A., Jasniewicz, G., Jordan, S., Kontizas, M., Korn, Anders J., Lanzafame, A. C., Manteiga, M., Moitinho, A., Muinonen, K., Osinde, J., Pancino, E., Pauwels, T., Petit, J. -M, Recio-Blanco, A., Robin, A. C., Siopis, C., Smith, M., Smith, K. W., Sozzetti, A., Thuillot, W., van Reeven, W., Viala, Y., Abbas, U., Abreu Aramburu, A., Accart, S., Aguado, J. J., Allan, P. M., Allasia, W., Altavilla, G., Alvarez, M. A., Alves, J., Andrei, A. H., Anglada Varela, E., Antiche, E., Antojal, T., Anton, S., Arcay, B., Bach, N., Baker, S. G., Balaguer-Nunez, L., Barache, C., Barata, C., Barbier, A., Barblan, F., Barrado y Navascues, D., Barros, M., Barstow, M. A., Becciani, U., Bellazzini, M., Bello Garcia, A., Belokurov, V., Bendjoya, P., Berihuete, A., Bianchi, L., Bienayme, O., Billebaud, F., Blagorodnova, N., Blanco-Cuaresma, S., Boch, T., Bombrun, A., Borrachero, R., Bouquillon, S., Bourda, G., Bragaglia, A., Breddels, M. A., Brouillet, N., Bruesemeister, T., Bucciarelli, B., Burgess, P., Burgon, R., Burlacu, A., Busonero, D., Buzzi, R., Caffau, E., Cambras, J., Campbell, H., Cancelliere, R., Cantat-Gaudin, T., Carlucci, T., Carrasco, J. M., Castellani, M., Charlot, P., Charnas, J., Chiavassa, A., Clotet, M., Cocozza, G., Collins, R. S., Costigan, G., Crifo, F., Cross, N. J. G., Crosta, M., Crowley, C., Dafonte, C., Damerdji, Y., Dapergolas, A., David, P., David, M., De Cat, P., de Felice, F., de Laverny, P., De Luise, F., De March, R., de Souza, R., Debosscher, J., del Pozo, E., Delbo, M., Delgado, A., Delgado, H. E., Di Matteo, P., Diakite, S., Distefano, E., Dolding, C., Dos Anjos, S., Drazinos, P., Duran, J., Dzigan, Y., Edvardsson, Bengt, Enke, H., Evans, N. W., Bontemps, G. Eynard, Fabre, C., Fabrizio, M., Falcao, A. J., Farras Casas, M., Federici, L., Fedorets, G., Fernandez-Hernandez, J., Fernique, P., Fienga, A., Figueras, F., Filippi, F., Findeisen, K., Fonti, A., Fouesneau, M., Fraile, E., Fraser, M., Fuchs, J., Gai, M., Galleti, S., Galluccio, L., Garabato, D., Garcia-Sedano, F., Garralda, N., Gavras, P., Gerssen, J., Geyer, R., Gilmore, G., Girona, S., Giuffrida, G., Gomes, M., Gonzalez-Marcos, A., Gonzalez-Nunez, J., Gonzalez-Vidal, J. J., Granvik, M., Guerrier, A., Guillout, P., Guiraud, J., Gurpide, A., Gutierrez-Sanchez, R., Guy, L. P., Haigron, R., Hatzidimitriou, D., Haywood, M., Heiter, Ulrike, Helmi, A., Hobbs, D., Hofmann, W., Holl, B., Holland, G., Hunt, J. A. S., Hypki, A., Icardi, V., Irwin, M., de Fombelle, G. Jevardat, Jofre, P., Jonker, P. G., Jorissen, A., Julbe, F., Karampelas, A., Kochoska, A., Kohley, R., Kolenberg, K., Kontizas, E., Koposov, S. E., Kordopatis, G., Koubsky, P., Krone-Martins, A., Kudryashova, M., Bachchan, R. K., Lacoste-Seris, F., Lanza, A. F., Lavigne, J. -B, Le Poncin-Lafitte, C., Lebreton, Y., Lebzelter, T., Leccia, S., Leclerc, N., Lecoeur-Taibi, I., Lemaitre, V., Lenhardt, H., Leroux, F., Liao, S., Licata, E., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Lister, T. A., Livanou, E., Lobel, A., Loeffler, W., Lopez, M., Lorenz, D., MacDonald, I., Magalhaes Fernandes, T., Managau, S., Mann, R. G., Mantelet, G., Marchal, O., Marchant, J. M., Marinoni, S., Marrese, P. M., Marschalko, G., Marsha, D. J., Martin-Fleitas, J. M., Martino, M., Mary, N., Matijevic, G., McMillan, P. J., Messina, S., Michalik, D., Millar, N. R., Miranda, B. M. H., Molina, D., Molinaro, M., Molnar, L., Monicz, M., Montegriffo, P., Mor, R., Mora, A., Morbidelli, R., Morel, T., Morgenthaler, S., Morris, D., Mulone, A. F., Narbonne, J., Nelemans, G., Nicastro, L., Noval, L., Ordenovic, C., Ordieres-Mere, J., Osborne, P., Pagani, C., Pagano, I., Pailler, F., Palacin, H., Palaversa, L., Parsons, P., Pecoraro, M., Pedrosa, R., Pentikainen, H., Pichon, B., Piersimoni, A. M., Pineau, F. -X, Plachy, E., Plum, G., Poujoulet, E., Prsa, A., Pulone, L., Ragaini, S., Rago, S., Rambaux, N., Ramos-Lerate, M., Ranalli, P., Rauw, G., Read, A., Regibo, S., Reyle, C., Ribeiro, R. A., Riva, A., Rixon, G., Roelens, M., Romero-Gomez, M., Rowell, N., Royer, F., Ruiz-Dern, L., Sadowski, G., Selles, T. Sagrista, Sahlmann, J., Salgado, J., Salguero, E., Sarasso, M., Savietto, H., Schultheis, M., Sciacca, E., Segol, M., Segovia, J. C., Segransan, D., Shih, I-C, Smareglia, R., Smart, R. L., Solano, E., Solitro, F., Sordo, R., Soria Nieto, S., Souchay, J., Spagna, A., Spoto, F., Stampa, U., Steele, I. A., Steidelmueller, H., Stephenson, C. A., Stoev, H., Suess, F. F., Suveges, M., Surdej, J., Szegedi-Elek, E., Tapiador, D., Taris, F., Tauran, G., Taylor, M. B., Teixeira, R., Terrett, D., Tingley, B., Trager, S. C., Turon, C., Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Valentini, G., van Elteren, A., Van Hemelryck, E., van Leeuwen, M., Varadi, M., Vecchiato, A., Veljanoski, J., Via, T., Vicente, D., Vogt, S., Voss, H., Votruba, V., Voutsinas, S., Walmsley, G., Weiler, M., Weingrill, K., Wevers, T., Wyrzykowski, L., Yoldas, A., Zerjal, M., Zucker, S., Zurbach, C., Zwitter, T., Alecu, A., Allen, M., Allende Prieto, C., Amorim, A., Anglada-Escude, G., Arsenijevic, V., Azaz, S., Balm, P., Beck, M., Bernsteint, H. -H, Bigot, L., Bijaoui, A., Blasco, C., Bonfigli, M., Bono, G., Boudreault, S., Bressan, A., Brown, S., Brunet, P. -M, Bunclark, P., Buonanno, R., Butkevich, A. G., Carret, C., Carrion, C., Chemin, L., Chereau, F., Corcione, L., Darmigny, E., de Boer, K. S., de Teodoro, P., de Zeeuw, P. T., Delle Luche, C., Domingues, C. D., Dubath, P., Fodor, F., Frezouls, B., Fries, A., Fustes, D., Fyfe, D., Gallardo, E., Gallegos, J., Gardiol, D., Gebran, M., Gomboc, A., Gomez, A., Grux, E., Gueguen, A., Heyrovsky, A., Hoar, J., Iannicola, G., Parache, Y. Isasi, Janotto, A. -M, Joliet, E., Jonckheere, A., Keil, R., Kim, D. -W, Klagyivik, P., Klar, J., Knude, J., Kochukhov, Oleg, Kolka, I., Kos, J., Kutka, A., Lainey, V., LeBouquin, D., Liu, C., Loreggia, D., Makarov, V. V., Marseille, M. G., Martayan, C., Martinez-Rubi, O., Massart, B., Meynadier, F., Mignot, S., Munari, U., Nguyen, A. -T, Nordlander, Thomas, O'Flaherty, K. S., Ocvirk, P., Olias Sanz, A., Ortiz, P., Osorio, J., Oszkiewicz, D., Ouzounis, A., Park, P., Pasquato, E., Peltzer, C., Peralta, J., Peturaud, F., Pieniluoma, T., Pigozzi, E., Poels, J., Prat, G., Prod'homme, T., Raison, F., Rebordao, J. M., Risquez, D., Rocca-Volmerange, B., Rosen, S., Ruiz-Fuertes, M. I., Russo, F., Serraller Vizcaino, I., Short, A., Siebert, A., Silva, H., Sinachopoulos, D., Slezak, E., Soffel, M., Sosnowska, D., Straizys, V., ter Linden, M., Terrell, D., Theil, S., Tiede, C., Troisi, L., Tsalmantza, P., Tur, D., Vaccari, M., Vachier, F., Valles, P., Van Hamme, W., Veltz, L., Virtanen, J., Wallut, J. -M, Wichmann, R., Wilkinson, M. I., Ziaeepour, H., Zschocke, S., Clementini, G., Eyer, L., Ripepi, V., Marconi, M., Muraveva, T., Garofalo, A., Sarro, L. M., Palmer, M., Luri, X., Molinaro, R., Rimoldini, L., Szabados, L., Musella, I., Anderson, R. I., Prusti, T., de Bruijne, J. H. J., Brown, A. G. A., Vallenari, A., Babusiaux, C., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Bastian, U., Biermann, M., Evans, D. W., Jansen, F., Jordi, C., Klioner, S. A., Lammers, U., Lindegren, L., Mignard, F., Panem, C., Pourbaix, D., Randich, S., Sartoretti, P., Siddiqui, H. I., Soubiran, C., Valette, V., van Leeuwen, F., Walton, N. A., Aerts, C., Arenou, F., Cropper, M., Drimmel, R., Hog, E., Katz, D., Lattanzi, M. G., O'Mullane, W., Grebel, E. K., Holland, A. D., Huc, C., Passot, X., Perryman, M., Bramante, L., Cacciari, C., Castaneda, J., Chaoul, L., Cheek, N., De Angeli, F., Fabricius, C., Guerra, R., Hernandez, J., Jean-Antoine-Piccolo, A., Masana, E., Messineo, R., Mowlavi, N., Nienartowicz, K., Ordonez-Blanco, D., Panuzzo, P., Portell, J., Richards, P. J., Riello, M., Seabroke, G. M., Tanga, P., Thevenin, F., Torra, J., Els, S. G., Gracia-Abril, G., Comoretto, G., Garcia-Reinaldos, M., Lock, T., Mercier, E., Altmann, M., Andrae, R., Astraatmadja, T. L., Bellas-Velidis, I., Benson, K., Berthier, J., Blomme, R., Busso, G., Carry, B., Cellino, A., Cowell, S., Creevey, O., Cuypers, J., Davidson, M., De Ridder, J., de Torres, A., Delchambre, L., Dell'Oro, A., Ducourant, C., Fremat, Y., Garcia-Torres, M., Gosset, E., Halbwachs, J. -L, Hambly, N. C., Harrison, D. L., Hauser, M., Hestroffer, D., Hodgkin, S. T., Huckle, H. E., Hutton, A., Jasniewicz, G., Jordan, S., Kontizas, M., Korn, Anders J., Lanzafame, A. C., Manteiga, M., Moitinho, A., Muinonen, K., Osinde, J., Pancino, E., Pauwels, T., Petit, J. -M, Recio-Blanco, A., Robin, A. C., Siopis, C., Smith, M., Smith, K. W., Sozzetti, A., Thuillot, W., van Reeven, W., Viala, Y., Abbas, U., Abreu Aramburu, A., Accart, S., Aguado, J. J., Allan, P. M., Allasia, W., Altavilla, G., Alvarez, M. A., Alves, J., Andrei, A. H., Anglada Varela, E., Antiche, E., Antojal, T., Anton, S., Arcay, B., Bach, N., Baker, S. G., Balaguer-Nunez, L., Barache, C., Barata, C., Barbier, A., Barblan, F., Barrado y Navascues, D., Barros, M., Barstow, M. A., Becciani, U., Bellazzini, M., Bello Garcia, A., Belokurov, V., Bendjoya, P., Berihuete, A., Bianchi, L., Bienayme, O., Billebaud, F., Blagorodnova, N., Blanco-Cuaresma, S., Boch, T., Bombrun, A., Borrachero, R., Bouquillon, S., Bourda, G., Bragaglia, A., Breddels, M. A., Brouillet, N., Bruesemeister, T., Bucciarelli, B., Burgess, P., Burgon, R., Burlacu, A., Busonero, D., Buzzi, R., Caffau, E., Cambras, J., Campbell, H., Cancelliere, R., Cantat-Gaudin, T., Carlucci, T., Carrasco, J. M., Castellani, M., Charlot, P., Charnas, J., Chiavassa, A., Clotet, M., Cocozza, G., Collins, R. S., Costigan, G., Crifo, F., Cross, N. J. G., Crosta, M., Crowley, C., Dafonte, C., Damerdji, Y., Dapergolas, A., David, P., David, M., De Cat, P., de Felice, F., de Laverny, P., De Luise, F., De March, R., de Souza, R., Debosscher, J., del Pozo, E., Delbo, M., Delgado, A., Delgado, H. E., Di Matteo, P., Diakite, S., Distefano, E., Dolding, C., Dos Anjos, S., Drazinos, P., Duran, J., Dzigan, Y., Edvardsson, Bengt, Enke, H., Evans, N. W., Bontemps, G. Eynard, Fabre, C., Fabrizio, M., Falcao, A. J., Farras Casas, M., Federici, L., Fedorets, G., Fernandez-Hernandez, J., Fernique, P., Fienga, A., Figueras, F., Filippi, F., Findeisen, K., Fonti, A., Fouesneau, M., Fraile, E., Fraser, M., Fuchs, J., Gai, M., Galleti, S., Galluccio, L., Garabato, D., Garcia-Sedano, F., Garralda, N., Gavras, P., Gerssen, J., Geyer, R., Gilmore, G., Girona, S., Giuffrida, G., Gomes, M., Gonzalez-Marcos, A., Gonzalez-Nunez, J., Gonzalez-Vidal, J. J., Granvik, M., Guerrier, A., Guillout, P., Guiraud, J., Gurpide, A., Gutierrez-Sanchez, R., Guy, L. P., Haigron, R., Hatzidimitriou, D., Haywood, M., Heiter, Ulrike, Helmi, A., Hobbs, D., Hofmann, W., Holl, B., Holland, G., Hunt, J. A. S., Hypki, A., Icardi, V., Irwin, M., de Fombelle, G. Jevardat, Jofre, P., Jonker, P. G., Jorissen, A., Julbe, F., Karampelas, A., Kochoska, A., Kohley, R., Kolenberg, K., Kontizas, E., Koposov, S. E., Kordopatis, G., Koubsky, P., Krone-Martins, A., Kudryashova, M., Bachchan, R. K., Lacoste-Seris, F., Lanza, A. F., Lavigne, J. -B, Le Poncin-Lafitte, C., Lebreton, Y., Lebzelter, T., Leccia, S., Leclerc, N., Lecoeur-Taibi, I., Lemaitre, V., Lenhardt, H., Leroux, F., Liao, S., Licata, E., Lindstrom, H. E. P., Lister, T. A., Livanou, E., Lobel, A., Loeffler, W., Lopez, M., Lorenz, D., MacDonald, I., Magalhaes Fernandes, T., Managau, S., Mann, R. G., Mantelet, G., Marchal, O., Marchant, J. M., Marinoni, S., Marrese, P. M., Marschalko, G., Marsha, D. J., Martin-Fleitas, J. M., Martino, M., Mary, N., Matijevic, G., McMillan, P. J., Messina, S., Michalik, D., Millar, N. R., Miranda, B. M. H., Molina, D., Molinaro, M., Molnar, L., Monicz, M., Montegriffo, P., Mor, R., Mora, A., Morbidelli, R., Morel, T., Morgenthaler, S., Morris, D., Mulone, A. F., Narbonne, J., Nelemans, G., Nicastro, L., Noval, L., Ordenovic, C., Ordieres-Mere, J., Osborne, P., Pagani, C., Pagano, I., Pailler, F., Palacin, H., Palaversa, L., Parsons, P., Pecoraro, M., Pedrosa, R., Pentikainen, H., Pichon, B., Piersimoni, A. M., Pineau, F. -X, Plachy, E., Plum, G., Poujoulet, E., Prsa, A., Pulone, L., Ragaini, S., Rago, S., Rambaux, N., Ramos-Lerate, M., Ranalli, P., Rauw, G., Read, A., Regibo, S., Reyle, C., Ribeiro, R. A., Riva, A., Rixon, G., Roelens, M., Romero-Gomez, M., Rowell, N., Royer, F., Ruiz-Dern, L., Sadowski, G., Selles, T. Sagrista, Sahlmann, J., Salgado, J., Salguero, E., Sarasso, M., Savietto, H., Schultheis, M., Sciacca, E., Segol, M., Segovia, J. C., Segransan, D., Shih, I-C, Smareglia, R., Smart, R. L., Solano, E., Solitro, F., Sordo, R., Soria Nieto, S., Souchay, J., Spagna, A., Spoto, F., Stampa, U., Steele, I. A., Steidelmueller, H., Stephenson, C. A., Stoev, H., Suess, F. F., Suveges, M., Surdej, J., Szegedi-Elek, E., Tapiador, D., Taris, F., Tauran, G., Taylor, M. B., Teixeira, R., Terrett, D., Tingley, B., Trager, S. C., Turon, C., Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Valentini, G., van Elteren, A., Van Hemelryck, E., van Leeuwen, M., Varadi, M., Vecchiato, A., Veljanoski, J., Via, T., Vicente, D., Vogt, S., Voss, H., Votruba, V., Voutsinas, S., Walmsley, G., Weiler, M., Weingrill, K., Wevers, T., Wyrzykowski, L., Yoldas, A., Zerjal, M., Zucker, S., Zurbach, C., Zwitter, T., Alecu, A., Allen, M., Allende Prieto, C., Amorim, A., Anglada-Escude, G., Arsenijevic, V., Azaz, S., Balm, P., Beck, M., Bernsteint, H. -H, Bigot, L., Bijaoui, A., Blasco, C., Bonfigli, M., Bono, G., Boudreault, S., Bressan, A., Brown, S., Brunet, P. -M, Bunclark, P., Buonanno, R., Butkevich, A. G., Carret, C., Carrion, C., Chemin, L., Chereau, F., Corcione, L., Darmigny, E., de Boer, K. S., de Teodoro, P., de Zeeuw, P. T., Delle Luche, C., Domingues, C. D., Dubath, P., Fodor, F., Frezouls, B., Fries, A., Fustes, D., Fyfe, D., Gallardo, E., Gallegos, J., Gardiol, D., Gebran, M., Gomboc, A., Gomez, A., Grux, E., Gueguen, A., Heyrovsky, A., Hoar, J., Iannicola, G., Parache, Y. Isasi, Janotto, A. -M, Joliet, E., Jonckheere, A., Keil, R., Kim, D. -W, Klagyivik, P., Klar, J., Knude, J., Kochukhov, Oleg, Kolka, I., Kos, J., Kutka, A., Lainey, V., LeBouquin, D., Liu, C., Loreggia, D., Makarov, V. V., Marseille, M. G., Martayan, C., Martinez-Rubi, O., Massart, B., Meynadier, F., Mignot, S., Munari, U., Nguyen, A. -T, Nordlander, Thomas, O'Flaherty, K. S., Ocvirk, P., Olias Sanz, A., Ortiz, P., Osorio, J., Oszkiewicz, D., Ouzounis, A., Park, P., Pasquato, E., Peltzer, C., Peralta, J., Peturaud, F., Pieniluoma, T., Pigozzi, E., Poels, J., Prat, G., Prod'homme, T., Raison, F., Rebordao, J. M., Risquez, D., Rocca-Volmerange, B., Rosen, S., Ruiz-Fuertes, M. I., Russo, F., Serraller Vizcaino, I., Short, A., Siebert, A., Silva, H., Sinachopoulos, D., Slezak, E., Soffel, M., Sosnowska, D., Straizys, V., ter Linden, M., Terrell, D., Theil, S., Tiede, C., Troisi, L., Tsalmantza, P., Tur, D., Vaccari, M., Vachier, F., Valles, P., Van Hamme, W., Veltz, L., Virtanen, J., Wallut, J. -M, Wichmann, R., Wilkinson, M. I., Ziaeepour, H., and Zschocke, S.

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Context. 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 1 (DR1) as part of the Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution (TGAS). Aims. In order to test these first parallax measurements of the primary standard candles of the cosmological distance ladder, which involve astrometry collected by Gaia during the initial 14 months of science operation, we compared them with literature estimates and derived new period-luminosity (PL), period-Wesenheit (PW) relations for classical and Type II Cepheids and infrared PL, PL-metallicity (PLZ), and optical luminosity-metallicity (MV-[Fe/H]) relations for the RR Lyrae stars, with zero points based on TGAS. Methods. Classical Cepheids were carefully selected in order to discard known or suspected binary systems. The final sample comprises 102 fundamental mode pulsators with periods ranging from 1.68 to 51.66 days (of which 33 with sigma(omega)/omega < 0 : 5). The Type II Cepheids include a total of 26 W Virginis and BL Herculis stars spanning the period range from 1.16 to 30.00 days (of which only 7 with sigma(omega)/omega 0 : 5). The RR Lyrae stars include 200 sources with pulsation period ranging from 0.27 to 0.80 days (of which 112 with sigma(omega)/omega < 0 : 5). The new relations were computed using multi- band (V; I; J; K-s) photometry and spectroscopic metal abundances available in the literature, and by applying three alternative approaches: (i) linear least-squares fitting of the absolute magnitudes inferred from direct transformation of the TGAS parallaxes; (ii) adopting astrometry-based luminosities; and (iii) using a Bayesian fitting approach. The last two methods work in parallax space where parallaxes are used directly, thus maintaining symmetrical errors and allowing negative parallaxes to be used. The TGAS-based PL; PW; PLZ, and MV [Fe/H] relations are discussed by comparing the distan, Acknowledgements. This work has made use of results from the European Space Agency (ESA) space mission Gaia, the data from which were processed by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC). Funding for the DPAC has been provided by national institutions, in particular the institutions participating in the Gaia Multilateral Agreement. The Gaia mission website is http://www.cosmos.esa.int/gaia. The authors are current or past members of the ESA and Airbus DS Gaia mission teams and of the Gaia DPAC. This research has made use of the SIMBAD database, operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France. We thank the referee, Pierre Kervella, for his detailed comments and suggestions that have helped to improve the paper analysis and presentation. This work has financially been supported by: the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) through grants I/037/08/0, I/058/10/0, 2014-025-R.0, and 2014-025-R.1.2015 to INAF and contracts I/008/10/0 and 2013/030/I.0 to ALTEC S.p.A.; the Algerian Centre de Recherche en Astronomic, Astrophysique et Geophysique of Bouzareah Observatory; the Austrian FWF Hertha Firnberg Programme through grants T359, P20046, and P23737; the BELgian federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO) through various PROgramme de Developpement d'Experiences scientifiques (PRODEX) grants; the Brazil-France exchange programmes FAPESP-COFECUB and CAPES-COFECUB; the Chinese National Science Foundation through grant NSFC 11573054; the Czech-Republic Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports through grant LG 15010; the Danish Ministry of Science; the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research through grant IUT40-1; the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme through the European Leadership in Space Astrometry (ELSA) Marie Curie Research Training Network (MRTN-CT-2006-033481), through Marie Curie project PIOF-GA-2009-255267 (SAS-RRL), and through a Marie Curie Transfer-of-Knowledge (ToK) fellowship (MTKD-CT-2004-014188); the European Commission's Seventh Framewor

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Brown, A. G. A., Vallenari, A., Prusti, T., de Bruijne, J. H. J., Mignard, F., Drimmel, R., Babusiaux, C., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Bastian, U., Biermann, M., Evans, D. W., Eyer, L., Jansen, F., Jordi, C., Katz, D., Klioner, S. A., Lammers, U., Lindegren, L., Luri, X., O'Mullane, W., Panem, C., Pourbaix, D., Randich, S., Sartoretti, P., Siddiqui, H. I., Soubiran, C., Valette, V., van Leeuwen, F., Walton, N. A., Aerts, C., Arenou, F., Cropper, M., Hog, E., Lattanzi, M. G., Grebel, E. K., Holland, A. D., Huc, C., Passot, X., Perryman, M., Bramante, L., Cacciari, C., Castaneda, J., Chaoul, L., Cheek, N., De Angeli, F., Fabricius, C., Guerra, R., Hernandez, J., Jean-Antoine-Piccolo, A., Masana, E., Messineo, R., Mowlavi, N., Nienartowicz, K., Ordonez-Blanco, D., Panuzzo, P., Portell, J., Richards, P. J., Riello, M., Seabroke, G. M., Tanga, P., Thevenin, F., Torra, J., Els, S. 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Context. 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 magnitude 20.7. Aims. A summary of Gaia DR1 is presented along with illustrations of the scientific quality of the data, followed by a discussion of the limitations due to the preliminary nature of this release. Methods. The raw data collected by Gaia during the first 14 months of the mission have been processed by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC) and turned into an astrometric and photometric catalogue. Results. Gaia DR1 consists of three components: a primary astrometric data set which contains the positions, parallaxes, and mean proper motions for about 2 million of the brightest stars in common with the HIPPARCOS and Tycho-2 catalogues - a realisation of the Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution (TGAS) - and a secondary astrometric data set containing the positions for an additional 1.1 billion sources. The second component is the photometric data set, consisting of mean G-band magnitudes for all sources. The G-band light curves and the characteristics of similar to 3000 Cepheid and RR Lyrae stars, observed at high cadence around the south ecliptic pole, form the third component. For the primary astrometric data set the typical uncertainty is about 0.3 mas for the positions and parallaxes, and about 1 mas yr(-1) for the proper motions. A systematic component of similar to 0.3 mas should be added to the parallax uncertainties. For the subset of similar to 94 000 HIPPARCOS stars in the primary data set, the proper motions are much more precise at about 0.06 mas yr(-1). For the secondary astrometric data set, the typical uncertainty of the positions is similar to 10 mas. The median uncertainties on the mean G-band magnitudes range from the mmag level to similar to 0.03 mag over the magnitude range 5 to 20.7. Conclusions. Gaia DR1 is an important milestone ahead of the

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Abstract

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 interferometric concept was changed to a direct-imaging approach. Both the spacecraft and the payload were built by European industry. The involvement of the scientific community focusses on data processing for which the international Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC) was selected in 2007. Gaia was launched on 19 December 2013 and arrived at its operating point, the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth-Moon system, a few weeks later. The commissioning of the spacecraft and payload was completed on 19 July 2014. The nominal five-year mission started with four weeks of special, ecliptic-pole scanning and subsequently transferred into full-sky scanning mode. We recall the scientific goals of Gaia and give a description of the as-built spacecraft that is currently (mid-2016) being operated to achieve these goals. We pay special attention to the payload module, the performance of which is closely related to the scientific performance of the mission. We provide a summary of the commissioning activities and findings, followed by a description of the routine operational mode. We summarise scientific performance estimates on the basis of in-orbit operations. Several intermediate Gaia data releases are planned and the data can be retrieved from the Gaia Archive, which is available through the Gaia home page.

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2016
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