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A. G. Butkevich
Researcher at Max Planck Society
Publications - 19
Citations - 11242
A. G. Butkevich is an academic researcher from Max Planck Society. The author has contributed to research in topics: Astrometry & Stars. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 6 publications receiving 9266 citations. Previous affiliations of A. G. Butkevich include Dresden University of Technology.
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Gaia Data Release 2. Summary of the contents and survey properties
Anthony G. A. Brown,Antonella Vallenari,T. Prusti,J. H. J. de Bruijne,C. Babusiaux,Coryn A. L. Bailer-Jones,M. Biermann,D. W. Evans,L. Eyer,F. Jansen,Carme Jordi,Sergei A. Klioner,U. Lammers,Lennart Lindegren,Xavier Luri,Francois Mignard,C. Panem,Dimitri Pourbaix,Sofia Randich,P. Sartoretti,H. I. Siddiqui,Caroline Soubiran,F. van Leeuwen,Nicholas A. Walton,Frédéric Arenou,Ulrich Bastian,Mark Cropper,R. Drimmel,D. Katz,M. G. Lattanzi,Joost M. Bakker,C. Cacciari,J. Castañeda,L. Chaoul,N. Cheek,F. De Angeli,C. Fabricius,Raphael Guerra,B. Holl,E. Masana,R. Messineo,Nami Mowlavi,K. Nienartowicz,P. Panuzzo,J. Portell,M. Riello,George M. Seabroke,Paolo Tanga,F. Thévenin,G. Gracia-Abril,G. Comoretto,M. Garcia-Reinaldos,D. Teyssier,Martin Altmann,Rene Andrae,M. Audard,I. Bellas-Velidis,K. Benson,Jérôme Berthier,R. Blomme,P. Burgess,G. Busso,Benoit Carry,Alberto Cellino,G. Clementini,M. Clotet,O. Creevey,M. Davidson,J. De Ridder,Ludovic Delchambre,A. Dell'Oro,C. Ducourant,J. Fernández-Hernández,Morgan Fouesneau,Yves Fremat,Laurent Galluccio,Miguel García-Torres,J. González-Núñez,J. J. González-Vidal,Eric Gosset,Leanne P. Guy,J.-L. Halbwachs,Nigel Hambly,D. L. Harrison,Jose M Hernandez,Daniel Hestroffer,S. T. Hodgkin,A. Hutton,G. Jasniewicz,A. Jean-Antoine-Piccolo,Stefan Jordan,Andreas Korn,Alberto Krone-Martins,A. C. Lanzafame,T. Lebzelter,W. Löffler,Minia Manteiga,P. M. Marrese,J. M. Martín-Fleitas,André Moitinho,A. Mora,Karri Muinonen,J. Osinde,E. Pancino,T. Pauwels,J.-M. Petit,Alejandra Recio-Blanco,P. J. Richards,L. Rimoldini,Annie C. Robin,L. M. Sarro,Christos Siopis,M. J. S. Smith,Alessandro Sozzetti,Maria Süveges,J. Torra,W. van Reeven,U. Abbas,A. Abreu Aramburu,S. Accart,Conny Aerts,G. Altavilla,M. A. Álvarez,R. Alvarez,João Alves,Richard I. Anderson,Alexandre Humberto Andrei,E. Anglada Varela,E. Antiche,Teresa Antoja,Bernardino Arcay,Tri L. Astraatmadja,N. Bach,S. G. Baker,L. Balaguer-Núñez,P. Balm,C. Barache,C. Barata,D. Barbato,F. Barblan,Paul S. Barklem,David Barrado,M. Barros,M. A. Barstow,S. Bartholomé Muñoz,J.-L. Bassilana,Ugo Becciani,M. Bellazzini,A. Berihuete,Stefano Bertone,Luciana Bianchi,O. Bienaymé,S. Blanco-Cuaresma,T. Boch,C. Boeche,Alex Bombrun,R. Borrachero,Diego Bossini,S. Bouquillon,G. Bourda,Angela Bragaglia,L. Bramante,Maarten A. Breddels,Alessandro Bressan,N. Brouillet,T. Brüsemeister,E. Brugaletta,B. Bucciarelli,A. Burlacu,D. Busonero,A. G. Butkevich,R. Buzzi,Elisabetta Caffau,R. Cancelliere,G. Cannizzaro,Tristan Cantat-Gaudin,R. Carballo,T. Carlucci,J. M. Carrasco,Laia Casamiquela,Marco Castellani,Alfred Castro-Ginard,P. Charlot,L. Chemin,Andrea Chiavassa,G. Cocozza,G. Costigan,S. Cowell,F. Crifo,M. Crosta,C. Crowley,J. Cuypers,Carlos Dafonte,Yassine Damerdji,A. Dapergolas,P. David,M. David,P. de Laverny,F. De Luise,R. De March,D. de Martino,R. S. de Souza,A. de Torres,J. Debosscher,E. del Pozo,Marco Delbo,A. Delgado,H. E. Delgado,P. Di Matteo,S. Diakite,C. Diener,E. Distefano,C. Dolding,P. Drazinos,J. Durán,B. Edvardsson,H. Enke,K. Eriksson,P. Esquej,G. Eynard Bontemps,C. Fabre,M. Fabrizio,S. Faigler,A. J. Falcão,M. Farràs Casas,L. Federici,Grigori Fedorets,P. Fernique,F. Figueras,Francesco Filippi,K. Findeisen,A. Fonti,E. Fraile,Morgan Fraser,B. Frézouls,Mario Gai,S. Galleti,D. Garabato,F. García-Sedano,A. Garofalo,N. Garralda,A. Gavel,P. Gavras,J. Gerssen,R. Geyer,P. Giacobbe,Gerard Gilmore,S. Girona,G. Giuffrida,F. Glass,M. Gomes,Mikael Granvik,A. Gueguen,A. Guerrier,J. Guiraud,R. Gutiérrez-Sánchez,R. Haigron,Despina Hatzidimitriou,M. Hauser,M. Haywood,Ulrike Heiter,Amina Helmi,J. Heu,Thomas Hilger,David Hobbs,Werner Hofmann,G. Holland,H. E. Huckle,A. Hypki,V. Icardi,K. Janßen,G. Jevardat de Fombelle,Peter G. Jonker,Attila Juhasz,F. Julbe,A. Karampelas,A. Kewley,Joakim Klar,A. Kochoska,R. Kohley,K. Kolenberg,M. Kontizas,E. Kontizas,Sergey E. Koposov,Georges Kordopatis,Z. Kostrzewa-Rutkowska,P. Koubsky,Sébastien Lambert,Antonino F. Lanza,Y. Lasne,J.-B. Lavigne,Y. Le Fustec,C. Le Poncin-Lafitte,Yveline Lebreton,S. Leccia,N. Leclerc,I. Lecoeur-Taïbi,H. Lenhardt,F. Leroux,S. Liao,E. Licata,H. E. P. Lindstrøm,T. A. Lister,E. Livanou,A. Lobel,M. López,S. Managau,Robert G. Mann,G. Mantelet,O. Marchal,Jon Marchant,Marcella Marconi,S. Marinoni,G. Marschalkó,D. J. Marshall,M. Martino,Gábor Marton,Nicolas Mary,Davide Massari,G. Matijevič,Tsevi Mazeh,Paul J. McMillan,S. Messina,D. Michalik,N. R. Millar,D. Molina,R. Molinaro,L. Molnár,P. Montegriffo,R. Mor,R. Morbidelli,Thierry Morel,D. Morris,A. F. Mulone,T. Muraveva,I. Musella,Gijs Nelemans,Luciano Nicastro,L. Noval,W. O'Mullane,C. Ordénovic,D. Ordóñez-Blanco,P. Osborne,C. Pagani,I. Pagano,F. Pailler,H. Palacin,L. Palaversa,A. Panahi,Michał Pawlak,A. M. Piersimoni,F.-X. Pineau,E. Plachy,G. Plum,E. Poggio,E. Poujoulet,A. Prša,L. Pulone,E. Racero,S. Ragaini,N. Rambaux,M. Ramos-Lerate,S. Regibo,Céline Reylé,F. Riclet,V. Ripepi,A. Riva,A. Rivard,G. Rixon,T. Roegiers,M. Roelens,M. Romero-Gómez,Nicholas Rowell,F. Royer,L. Ruiz-Dern,G. Sadowski,T. Sagristà Sellés,Johannes Sahlmann,J. Salgado,E. Salguero,Nicoletta Sanna,Toni Santana-Ros,M. Sarasso,H. Savietto,M. Schultheis,Eva Sciacca,M. Segol,J. C. Segovia,Damien Ségransan,I.-C. Shih,L. Siltala,A. F. Silva,Richard L. Smart,K. W. Smith,E. Solano,F. Solitro,R. Sordo,Sonia Nieto,J. Souchay,A. Spagna,Federica Spoto,U. Stampa,Iain A. Steele,H. Steidelmüller,C. A. Stephenson,H. Stoev,F. F. Suess,Jean Surdej,Laszlo Szabados,E. Szegedi-Elek,D. Tapiador,F. Taris,G. Tauran,M. B. Taylor,Ramachrisna Teixeira,D. Terrett,P. Teyssandier,W. Thuillot,A. Titarenko,F. Torra Clotet,C. Turon,A. Ulla,E. Utrilla,S. Uzzi,M. Vaillant,G. Valentini,V. Valette,A. van Elteren,E. Van Hemelryck,M. van Leeuwen,M. Vaschetto,Alberto Vecchiato,Jovan Veljanoski,Y. Viala,D. Vicente,Steven S. Vogt,C. von Essen,H. Voss,V. Votruba,S. Voutsinas,G. Walmsley,M. Weiler,O. Wertz,T. Wevers,Łukasz Wyrzykowski,A. Yoldas,M. Žerjal,H. Ziaeepour,J. Zorec,Sven Zschocke,Shay Zucker,C. Zurbach,T. Zwitter +452 more
TL;DR: The second Gaia data release, Gaia DR2 as mentioned in this paper, is a major advance with respect to Gaia DR1 in terms of completeness, performance, and richness of the data products.
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Gaia Data Release 1 - Astrometry: one billion positions, two million proper motions and parallaxes
Lennart Lindegren,U. Lammers,Ulrich Bastian,Jose M Hernandez,Sergei A. Klioner,David Hobbs,Alex Bombrun,Daniel Michalik,M. Ramos-Lerate,A. G. Butkevich,G. Comoretto,E. Joliet,Berry Holl,A. Hutton,P. Parsons,H. Steidelmüller,U. Abbas,Martin Altmann,Martin Altmann,Alexandre Humberto Andrei,Sonia Anton,N. Bach,C. Barache,Ugo Becciani,Jérôme Berthier,Luciana Bianchi,M. Biermann,S. Bouquillon,G. Bourda,T. Brüsemeister,Beatrice Bucciarelli,D. Busonero,T. Carlucci,J. Castañeda,Patrick Charlot,M. Clotet,Maria Teresa Crosta,Michael Davidson,F. de Felice,R. Drimmel,C. Fabricius,Agnes Fienga,F. Figueras,E. Fraile,Mario Gai,N. Garralda,R. Geyer,J.J. González-Vidal,Raphael Guerra,Nigel Hambly,M. Hauser,Stefan Jordan,Mario G. Lattanzi,H. Lenhardt,S. Liao,W. Löffler,Paul J. McMillan,Francois Mignard,A. Mora,Roberto Morbidelli,Jordi Portell,Alberto Riva,M. Sarasso,I. Serraller,H. I. Siddiqui,Richard L. Smart,Alessandro Spagna,U. Stampa,Iain A. Steele,F. Taris,J. Torra,W. van Reeven,Alberto Vecchiato,Sven Zschocke,J. H. J. de Bruijne,G. Gracia,F. Raison,Tim Lister,Jon Marchant,R. Messineo,Michael Soffel,J. Osorio,A. de Torres,William O'Mullane +83 more
TL;DR: Gaia Data Release 1 (Gaia DR1) as discussed by the authors contains a large amount of data collected by the Gaia satellite during the first 14 months of its operational phase, including positions, parallaxes, and proper motions to Hipparcos-type precision or better.
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Gaia Data Release 2 - Observational Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams
C. Babusiaux,F. van Leeuwen,M. A. Barstow,Carme Jordi,Antonella Vallenari,Diego Bossini,Alessandro Bressan,Tristan Cantat-Gaudin,M. van Leeuwen,Anthony G. A. Brown,T. Prusti,J. H. J. de Bruijne,Coryn A. L. Bailer-Jones,M. Biermann,D. W. Evans,L. Eyer,F. Jansen,Sergei A. Klioner,U. Lammers,Lennart Lindegren,Xavier Luri,Francois Mignard,C. Panem,Dimitri Pourbaix,Sofia Randich,P. Sartoretti,H. I. Siddiqui,Caroline Soubiran,Nicholas A. Walton,Frédéric Arenou,Ulrich Bastian,Mark Cropper,R. Drimmel,D. Katz,M. G. Lattanzi,Joost M. Bakker,C. Cacciari,J. Castañeda,L. Chaoul,N. Cheek,F. De Angeli,C. Fabricius,Raphael Guerra,B. Holl,E. Masana,R. Messineo,Nami Mowlavi,K. Nienartowicz,P. Panuzzo,J. Portell,M. Riello,George M. Seabroke,Paolo Tanga,F. Thévenin,G. Gracia-Abril,G. Comoretto,M. Garcia-Reinaldos,D. Teyssier,Martin Altmann,Rene Andrae,M. Audard,I. Bellas-Velidis,K. Benson,Jérôme Berthier,R. Blomme,P. Burgess,G. Busso,Benoit Carry,Alberto Cellino,G. Clementini,M. Clotet,O. Creevey,M. Davidson,J. De Ridder,Ludovic Delchambre,A. Dell'Oro,C. Ducourant,J. Fernández-Hernández,Morgan Fouesneau,Yves Fremat,Laurent Galluccio,Miguel García-Torres,J. González-Núñez,J. J. González-Vidal,Eric Gosset,Leanne P. Guy,J.-L. Halbwachs,Nigel Hambly,D. L. Harrison,Jose M Hernandez,Daniel Hestroffer,S. T. Hodgkin,A. Hutton,G. Jasniewicz,A. Jean-Antoine-Piccolo,Stefan Jordan,Andreas Korn,Alberto Krone-Martins,A. C. Lanzafame,T. Lebzelter,W. Löffler,Minia Manteiga,P. M. Marrese,J. M. Martín-Fleitas,André Moitinho,A. Mora,Karri Muinonen,J. Osinde,E. Pancino,T. Pauwels,J.-M. Petit,Alejandra Recio-Blanco,P. J. Richards,L. Rimoldini,Annie C. Robin,L. M. Sarro,Christos Siopis,M. J. S. Smith,Alessandro Sozzetti,Maria Süveges,J. Torra,W. van Reeven,U. Abbas,A. Abreu Aramburu,S. Accart,Conny Aerts,G. Altavilla,M. A. Álvarez,R. Alvarez,João Alves,Richard I. Anderson,Alexandre Humberto Andrei,E. Anglada Varela,E. Antiche,Teresa Antoja,Bernardino Arcay,Tri L. Astraatmadja,N. Bach,S. G. Baker,L. Balaguer-Núñez,P. Balm,C. Barache,C. Barata,D. Barbato,F. Barblan,Paul S. Barklem,David Barrado,M. Barros,L. Bartholomé Muñoz,J.-L. Bassilana,Ugo Becciani,M. Bellazzini,A. Berihuete,Stefano Bertone,Luciana Bianchi,O. Bienaymé,S. Blanco-Cuaresma,T. Boch,C. Boeche,Alex Bombrun,R. Borrachero,S. Bouquillon,G. Bourda,Angela Bragaglia,L. Bramante,Maarten A. Breddels,N. Brouillet,T. Brüsemeister,E. Brugaletta,B. Bucciarelli,A. Burlacu,D. Busonero,A. G. Butkevich,R. Buzzi,Elisabetta Caffau,R. Cancelliere,G. Cannizzaro,R. Carballo,T. Carlucci,J. M. Carrasco,Laia Casamiquela,Marco Castellani,Alfred Castro-Ginard,P. Charlot,L. Chemin,Andrea Chiavassa,G. Cocozza,G. Costigan,S. Cowell,F. Crifo,M. Crosta,C. Crowley,J. Cuypers,Carlos Dafonte,Yassine Damerdji,A. Dapergolas,P. David,M. David,P. de Laverny,F. De Luise,R. De March,D. de Martino,R. S. de Souza,A. de Torres,J. Debosscher,E. del Pozo,Marco Delbo,A. Delgado,H. E. Delgado,S. Diakite,C. Diener,E. Distefano,C. Dolding,P. Drazinos,J. Durán,B. Edvardsson,H. Enke,K. Eriksson,P. Esquej,G. Eynard Bontemps,C. Fabre,M. Fabrizio,S. Faigler,A. J. Falcão,M. Farràs Casas,L. Federici,Grigori Fedorets,P. Fernique,F. Figueras,Francesco Filippi,K. Findeisen,A. Fonti,E. Fraile,Morgan Fraser,B. Frézouls,Mario Gai,S. Galleti,D. Garabato,F. García-Sedano,A. Garofalo,N. Garralda,A. Gavel,P. Gavras,J. Gerssen,R. Geyer,P. Giacobbe,Gerard Gilmore,S. Girona,G. Giuffrida,F. Glass,M. Gomes,Mikael Granvik,A. Gueguen,A. Guerrier,J. Guiraud,R. Gutié,R. Haigron,Despina Hatzidimitriou,M. Hauser,M. Haywood,Ulrike Heiter,Amina Helmi,J. Heu,Thomas Hilger,David Hobbs,Werner Hofmann,G. Holland,H. E. Huckle,A. Hypki,V. Icardi,K. Janßen,G. Jevardat de Fombelle,Peter G. Jonker,Attila Juhasz,F. Julbe,A. Karampelas,A. Kewley,Joakim Klar,A. Kochoska,R. Kohley,K. Kolenberg,M. Kontizas,E. Kontizas,Sergey E. Koposov,Georges Kordopatis,Z. Kostrzewa-Rutkowska,P. Koubsky,Sébastien Lambert,Antonino F. Lanza,Y. Lasne,J.-B. Lavigne,Y. Le Fustec,C. Le Poncin-Lafitte,Yveline Lebreton,S. Leccia,N. Leclerc,I. Lecoeur-Taïbi,H. Lenhardt,F. Leroux,S. Liao,E. Licata,H. E. P. Lindstrøm,T. A. Lister,E. Livanou,A. Lobel,M. López,S. Managau,Robert G. Mann,G. Mantelet,O. Marchal,Jon Marchant,Marcella Marconi,S. Marinoni,G. Marschalkó,D. J. Marshall,M. Martino,Gábor Marton,Nicolas Mary,Davide Massari,G. Matijevič,Tsevi Mazeh,Paul J. McMillan,S. Messina,D. Michalik,N. R. Millar,D. Molina,R. Molinaro,L. Molnár,P. Montegriffo,R. Mor,R. Morbidelli,Thierry Morel,D. Morris,A. F. Mulone,T. Muraveva,I. Musella,Gijs Nelemans,Luciano Nicastro,L. Noval,W. O'Mullane,C. Ordénovic,D. Ordóñez-Blanco,P. Osborne,C. Pagani,I. Pagano,F. Pailler,H. Palacin,L. Palaversa,A. Panahi,Michał Pawlak,A. M. Piersimoni,F.-X. Pineau,E. Plachy,G. Plum,E. Poggio,E. Poujoulet,A. Prša,L. Pulone,E. Racero,S. Ragaini,N. Rambaux,M. Ramos-Lerate,S. Regibo,Céline Reylé,F. Riclet,V. Ripepi,A. Riva,A. Rivard,G. Rixon,T. Roegiers,M. Roelens,M. Romero-Gómez,Nicholas Rowell,F. Royer,L. Ruiz-Dern,G. Sadowski,T. Sagristà Sellés,Johannes Sahlmann,J. Salgado,E. Salguero,Nicoletta Sanna,Toni Santana-Ros,M. Sarasso,H. Savietto,M. Schultheis,Eva Sciacca,M. Segol,J. C. Segovia,Damien Ségransan,I.-C. Shih,L. Siltala,A. F. Silva,Richard L. Smart,K. W. Smith,E. Solano,F. Solitro,R. Sordo,Sonia Nieto,J. Souchay,A. Spagna,Federica Spoto,U. Stampa,Iain A. Steele,H. Steidelmüller,C. A. Stephenson,H. Stoev,F. F. Suess,Jean Surdej,László Szabados,E. Szegedi-Elek,D. Tapiador,F. Taris,G. Tauran,M. B. Taylor,Ramachrisna Teixeira,D. Terrett,P. Teyssandier,W. Thuillot,A. Titarenko,F. Torra Clotet,C. Turon,A. Ulla,E. Utrilla,S. Uzzi,M. Vaillant,G. Valentini,V. Valette,A. van Elteren,E. Van Hemelryck,M. Vaschetto,Alberto Vecchiato,Jovan Veljanoski,Y. Viala,D. Vicente,Steven S. Vogt,C. von Essen,H. Voss,V. Votruba,S. Voutsinas,G. Walmsley,M. Weiler,O. Wertz,T. Wevers,Łukasz Wyrzykowski,A. Yoldas,M. Žerjal,H. Ziaeepour,J. Zorec,Sven Zschocke,Shay Zucker,C. Zurbach,T. Zwitter +451 more
TL;DR: Gaia Data Release 2 provides high-precision astrometry and three-band photometry for about 1.3 billion sources over the full sky as mentioned in this paper, which is unprecedented in both precision and coverage of the various Milky Way stellar populations and stellar evolutionary phases.
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Gaia Data Release 1: Astrometry - one billion positions, two million proper motions and parallaxes
Lennart Lindegren,U. Lammers,Ulrich Bastian,Jose M Hernandez,Sergei A. Klioner,David Hobbs,Alex Bombrun,Daniel Michalik,M. Ramos-Lerate,A. G. Butkevich,G. Comoretto,E. Joliet,Berry Holl,A. Hutton,P. Parsons,H. Steidelmüller,U. Abbas,Martin Altmann,Martin Altmann,Alexandre Humberto Andrei,Sonia Anton,N. Bach,C. Barache,Ugo Becciani,Jérôme Berthier,Luciana Bianchi,M. Biermann,S. Bouquillon,G. Bourda,T. Brüsemeister,Beatrice Bucciarelli,D. Busonero,T. Carlucci,J. Castañeda,Patrick Charlot,M. Clotet,Maria Teresa Crosta,Michael Davidson,F. de Felice,R. Drimmel,C. Fabricius,Agnes Fienga,F. Figueras,E. Fraile,Mario Gai,N. Garralda,R. Geyer,J.J. González-Vidal,Raphael Guerra,Nigel Hambly,M. Hauser,Stefan Jordan,Mario G. Lattanzi,H. Lenhardt,S. Liao,W. Löffler,Paul J. McMillan,Francois Mignard,A. Mora,Roberto Morbidelli,Jordi Portell,Alberto Riva,M. Sarasso,I. Serraller,H. I. Siddiqui,Richard L. Smart,Alessandro Spagna,U. Stampa,Iain A. Steele,F. Taris,J. Torra,W. van Reeven,Alberto Vecchiato,Sven Zschocke,J. H. J. de Bruijne,G. Gracia,F. Raison,Tim Lister,Jon Marchant,R. Messineo,Michael Soffel,J. Osorio,A. de Torres,William O'Mullane +83 more
TL;DR: Gaia Data Release 1 (Gaia DR1) as mentioned in this paper contains a large amount of data collected by the Gaia satellite during the first 14 months of its operational phase, including positions, parallaxes, and proper motions to Hipparcos-type precision or better.
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Gaia Data Release 2. Mapping the Milky Way disc kinematics
D. Katz,Teresa Antoja,M. Romero-Gómez,R. Drimmel,Céline Reylé,George M. Seabroke,Caroline Soubiran,C. Babusiaux,P. Di Matteo,F. Figueras,E. Poggio,Annie C. Robin,D. W. Evans,Anthony G. A. Brown,Antonella Vallenari,T. Prusti,J. H. J. de Bruijne,Coryn A. L. Bailer-Jones,M. Biermann,L. Eyer,F. Jansen,Carme Jordi,Sergei A. Klioner,U. Lammers,Lennart Lindegren,Xavier Luri,Francois Mignard,C. Panem,Dimitri Pourbaix,Sofia Randich,P. Sartoretti,H. I. Siddiqui,F. van Leeuwen,Nicholas A. Walton,Frédéric Arenou,Ulrich Bastian,Mark Cropper,M. G. Lattanzi,Joost M. Bakker,C. Cacciari,L. Chaoul,N. Cheek,F. De Angeli,C. Fabricius,Raphael Guerra,B. Holl,E. Masana,R. Messineo,Nami Mowlavi,K. Nienartowicz,P. Panuzzo,J. Portell,M. Riello,Paolo Tanga,F. Thévenin,G. Gracia-Abril,G. Comoretto,M. Garcia-Reinaldos,D. Teyssier,Martin Altmann,Rene Andrae,M. Audard,I. Bellas-Velidis,K. Benson,Jérôme Berthier,R. Blomme,P. Burgess,G. Busso,Benoit Carry,Alberto Cellino,G. Clementini,M. Clotet,O. Creevey,M. Davidson,J. De Ridder,Ludovic Delchambre,A. Dell'Oro,C. Ducourant,J. Fernández-Hernández,Morgan Fouesneau,Yves Fremat,Laurent Galluccio,Miguel García-Torres,J. González-Núñez,J. J. González-Vidal,Eric Gosset,Leanne P. Guy,J.-L. Halbwachs,Nigel Hambly,D. L. Harrison,Jose M Hernandez,Daniel Hestroffer,S. T. Hodgkin,A. Hutton,G. Jasniewicz,A. Jean-Antoine-Piccolo,Stefan Jordan,Andreas Korn,Alberto Krone-Martins,A. C. Lanzafame,T. Lebzelter,W. Löffler,Minia Manteiga,P. M. Marrese,J. M. Martín-Fleitas,André Moitinho,A. Mora,Karri Muinonen,J. Osinde,E. Pancino,T. Pauwels,J.-M. Petit,Alejandra Recio-Blanco,P. J. Richards,L. Rimoldini,L. M. Sarro,Christos Siopis,M. J. S. Smith,Alessandro Sozzetti,Maria Süveges,J. Torra,W. van Reeven,U. Abbas,A. Abreu Aramburu,S. Accart,Conny Aerts,G. Altavilla,M. A. Álvarez,R. Alvarez,João Alves,Richard I. Anderson,Alexandre Humberto Andrei,E. Anglada Varela,E. Antiche,Bernardino Arcay,Tri L. Astraatmadja,N. Bach,S. G. Baker,L. Balaguer-Núñez,P. Balm,C. 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TL;DR: Gaia DR2 as discussed by the authors provides high-precision positions, parallaxes, and proper motions for 1.3 billion sources as well as line-of-sight velocities for 7.2 million stars brighter than GRVS = 12 mag.