A. Kochoska

TL;DR: Gaia as discussed by the authors 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.

TL;DR: In this article, the first parallax measurements of the primary standard candles of the cosmological distance ladder, that involve astrometry collected by Gaia during the initial 14 months of science operation, are published in Gaia Data Release 1 (DR1) as part of the Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution (TGAS).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented an automated procedure to characterize EBs based on the geometric morphology of their light curve (LC) with two aims: first to study an ensemble of EBs on a statistical ground without the need to model the binary system, and second to enable the automated identification of EB that display atypical LCs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented an automated procedure to characterize EBs based on the geometric morphology of their light curve (LC) with two aims: first, to study an ensemble of EBs on a statistical ground without the need to model the binary system, and second, to enable the automated identification of atypical light curve geometries.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the potential detectability of eclipsing binaries with Gaia using a data set of all Kepler eclipsing binary sampled with Gaia cadence and folded with the Kepler period, and propose a classification scheme for the potentially detectable sources based on the geometry of the light curve fits.