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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.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the input data, models, and processing used for the astrometric content of Gaia DR2, and the validation of these results performed within the ASTR task.

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.

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.

TL;DR: The third data release of the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, GDR3 as discussed by the authors , contains the same source list, celestial positions, proper motions, parallaxes, and broad band photometry in the G, G$BP}$, and G$RP}$ pass-bands already present in the Early Third Data Release.