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Frédéric Vachier
Researcher at Institut de mécanique céleste et de calcul des éphémérides
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Citations - 10851
Frédéric Vachier is an academic researcher from Institut de mécanique céleste et de calcul des éphémérides. The author has contributed to research in topics: Asteroid & Astrometry. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 95 publications receiving 9018 citations. Previous affiliations of Frédéric Vachier include PSL Research University & Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.
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The Gaia mission
T. Prusti,J. H. J. de Bruijne,Anthony G. A. Brown,Antonella Vallenari,C. Babusiaux,C. A. L. Bailer-Jones,Ulrich Bastian,M. Biermann,D. W. Evans,L. Eyer,F. A. Jansen,Carme Jordi,Sergei A. Klioner,Uwe Lammers,Lennart Lindegren,Xavier Luri,Francois Mignard,D. J. Milligan,C. Panem,V. Poinsignon,Dimitri Pourbaix,Sofia Randich,G. Sarri,P. Sartoretti,H. I. Siddiqui,Caroline Soubiran,V. Valette,F. van Leeuwen,N. A. Walton,Conny Aerts,Frédéric Arenou,Mark Cropper,R. Drimmel,Erik Høg,D. Katz,Mario G. Lattanzi,W. O'Mullane,Eva K. Grebel,Andrew D. Holland,C. Huc,X. Passot,L. Bramante,Carla Cacciari,J. Castañeda,L. Chaoul,N. Cheek,F. De Angeli,C. Fabricius,Raphael Guerra,Jose M Hernandez,A. Jean-Antoine-Piccolo,Eduard Masana,R. Messineo,Nami Mowlavi,Krzysztof Nienartowicz,D. Ordóñez-Blanco,Pasquale Panuzzo,Jordi Portell,P. J. Richards,M. Riello,George M. Seabroke,Paolo Tanga,F. Thévenin,J. Torra,Sebastian Els,G. Gracia-Abril,G. Comoretto,M. Garcia-Reinaldos,T. Lock,E. Mercier,Martin Altmann,Rene Andrae,Tri L. Astraatmadja,I. Bellas-Velidis,Kevin Benson,Jérôme Berthier,R. Blomme,G. Busso,Benoit Carry,Alberto Cellino,Gisella Clementini,S. Cowell,O. L. Creevey,J. Cuypers,Michael Davidson,J. De Ridder,A. de Torres,Ludovic Delchambre,Aldo Dell'Oro,C. Ducourant,Yves Fremat,Miguel García-Torres,Eric Gosset,J. L. Halbwachs,Nigel Hambly,D. L. Harrison,M. Hauser,Daniel Hestroffer,Simon Hodgkin,H. E. Huckle,A. Hutton,Gérard Jasniewicz,Stefan Jordan,M. Kontizas,Andreas Korn,A. C. Lanzafame,Minia Manteiga,André Moitinho,Karri Muinonen,J. Osinde,Elena Pancino,T. Pauwels,J. M. Petit,Alejandra Recio-Blanco,Annie C. Robin,L. M. Sarro,Christos Siopis,M. J. S. Smith,K. W. Smith,Alessandro Sozzetti,William Thuillot,W. van Reeven,Y. Viala,Ummi Abbas,A. Abreu Aramburu,S. Accart,J. J. Aguado,P. M. Allan,Walter Allasia,G. Altavilla,M. A. Álvarez,João Alves,Richard I. Anderson,Alexandre Humberto Andrei,E. Anglada Varela,E. Antiche,Teresa Antoja,Sonia Anton,Bernardino Arcay,A. Atzei,L. Ayache,N. Bach,S. G. Baker,L. Balaguer-Núñez,Christophe Barache,C. Barata,Antoine Barbier,F. Barblan,M. Baroni,D. Barrado y Navascués,M. Barros,Martin A. Barstow,Ugo Becciani,Michele Bellazzini,G. Bellei,A. Bello García,Vasily Belokurov,Philippe Bendjoya,A. Berihuete,Luciana Bianchi,Olivier Bienaymé,F. Billebaud,Nadejda Blagorodnova,S. Blanco-Cuaresma,T. Boch,Alex Bombrun,R. Borrachero,S. Bouquillon,G. Bourda,Hervé Bouy,Angela Bragaglia,Maarten A. Breddels,N. Brouillet,T. Brüsemeister,Beatrice Bucciarelli,F. Budnik,P. Burgess,R. Burgon,A. Burlacu,Deborah Busonero,R. Buzzi,Elisabetta Caffau,J. Cambras,Heather Campbell,Rossella Cancelliere,Tristan Cantat-Gaudin,T. Carlucci,J. M. Carrasco,Marco Castellani,P. Charlot,J. Charnas,P. Charvet,F. Chassat,Andrea Chiavassa,M. Clotet,G. Cocozza,Ross Collins,P. Collins,G. Costigan,F. Crifo,Nicholas Cross,Mariateresa Crosta,C. Crowley,Carlos Dafonte,Yassine Damerdji,A. Dapergolas,P. David,M. David,P. De Cat,F. de Felice,P. de Laverny,F. De Luise,R. De March,D. de Martino,R. E. de Souza,Jonas Debosscher,E. del Pozo,Marco Delbo,A. Delgado,H. E. Delgado,F. di Marco,P. Di Matteo,S. Diakite,Elisa Distefano,C. Dolding,S. dos Anjos,P. Drazinos,J. Durán,Y. Dzigan,E. Ecale,Bengt Edvardsson,Harry Enke,M. Erdmann,D. Escolar,M. Espina,Nick Evans,G. Eynard Bontemps,C. Fabre,M. Fabrizio,Simchon Faigler,A. J. Falcão,M. Farràs Casas,F. Faye,Luciana Federici,Grigori Fedorets,J. Fernández-Hernández,Pierre Fernique,Agnes Fienga,Francesca Figueras,F. Filippi,K. Findeisen,A. Fonti,Morgan Fouesneau,E. Fraile,Morgan Fraser,J. Fuchs,R. Furnell,Mario Gai,S. Galleti,Laurent Galluccio,D. Garabato,F. García-Sedano,P. Gare,A. Garofalo,N. Garralda,P. Gavras,J. Gerssen,R. Geyer,Gerry Gilmore,S. Girona,G. Giuffrida,M. Gomes,Ana González-Marcos,J. González-Núñez,J. J. González-Vidal,Mikael Granvik,A. Guerrier,Patrick Guillout,J. Guiraud,A. Gúrpide,R. Gutiérrez-Sánchez,Leanne P. Guy,R. Haigron,Despina Hatzidimitriou,Misha Haywood,Ulrike Heiter,Amina Helmi,David Hobbs,W. Hofmann,B. Holl,G. Holland,Julie Ann Hunt,A. Hypki,V. Icardi,Mike Irwin,G. Jevardat de Fombelle,Paula Jofre,Peter G. Jonker,Alain Jorissen,F. Julbe,A. Karampelas,A. Kochoska,R. Kohley,Katrien Kolenberg,E. Kontizas,Sergey E. Koposov,Georges Kordopatis,P. Koubsky,A. Kowalczyk,Alberto Krone-Martins,M. Kudryashova,I. Kull,R. K. Bachchan,F. Lacoste-Seris,Antonino F. Lanza,J.-B. Lavigne,C. Le Poncin-Lafitte,Yveline Lebreton,T. Lebzelter,Silvio Leccia,N. Leclerc,Isabelle Lecoeur-Taïbi,Vincent Lemaitre,H. Lenhardt,F. Leroux,Shilong Liao,E. Licata,H. E. P. Lindstrøm,T. A. Lister,E. Livanou,Alex Lobel,W. Löffler,M. López,A. Lopez-Lozano,D. Lorenz,T. Loureiro,I. MacDonald,T. Magalhães Fernandes,S. Managau,Robert G. Mann,G. Mantelet,O. Marchal,Jon Marchant,Marcella Marconi,J. Marie,S. Marinoni,P. M. Marrese,G. Marschalkó,D. J. Marshall,J. M. Martín-Fleitas,M. Martino,Nicolas Mary,Gal Matijevic,Tsevi Mazeh,Paul J. McMillan,S. Messina,A. Mestre,Daniel Michalik,N. R. Millar,B. M. H. Miranda,D. Molina,Roberto Molinaro,Marco Molinaro,László Molnár,M. Moniez,Paolo Montegriffo,D. Monteiro,R. Mor,A. Mora,Roberto Morbidelli,Thierry Morel,Stephan Morgenthaler,T. Morley,Derek W. Morris,A. F. Mulone,Tatiana Muraveva,Ilaria Musella,J. Narbonne,Gijs Nelemans,Luciano Nicastro,L. Noval,C. Ordenovic,Joaquín Ordieres-Meré,P. Osborne,C. Pagani,Isabella Pagano,F. Pailler,H. Palacin,L. Palaversa,P. Parsons,T. Paulsen,M. Pecoraro,R. Pedrosa,H. Pentikäinen,J. Pereira,B. Pichon,A. M. Piersimoni,F. X. Pineau,Emese Plachy,G. Plum,E. Poujoulet,Andrej Prsa,L. Pulone,S. Ragaini,S. Rago,Nicolas Rambaux,M. Ramos-Lerate,Piero Ranalli,Grégor Rauw,A. M. Read,S. Regibo,F. Renk,Céline Reylé,Rita A. Ribeiro,Lorenzo Rimoldini,Vincenzo Ripepi,Alberto Riva,Guy Rixon,Maroussia Roelens,M. Romero-Gómez,Nicholas Rowell,Frédéric Royer,Anja Rudolph,L. Ruiz-Dern,G. Sadowski,T. Sagristà Sellés,Johannes Sahlmann,Jesus Salgado,E. Salguero,M. Sarasso,H. Savietto,A. Schnorhk,M. Schultheis,Eva Sciacca,M. Segol,J. C. Segovia,Damien Ségransan,E. Serpell,I.-C. Shih,Riccardo Smareglia,Richard L. Smart,Caleb Smith,Enrique Solano,F. Solitro,Rosanna Sordo,Sonia Nieto,J. Souchay,Alessandro Spagna,Federica Spoto,U. Stampa,Iain A. Steele,H. Steidelmüller,C.A. Stephenson,H. Stoev,F. F. Suess,Maria Süveges,Jean Surdej,László Szabados,E. Szegedi-Elek,D. Tapiador,F. Taris,G. Tauran,Mark Taylor,Ramachrisna Teixeira,D. Terrett,Brandon Tingley,Scott Trager,C. Turon,Ana Ulla,E. Utrilla,Gaetano Valentini,A. van Elteren,E. Van Hemelryck,M. van Leeuwen,M. Varadi,Alberto Vecchiato,Jovan Veljanoski,T. Via,D. Vicente,Steven S. Vogt,Holger Voss,Viktor Votruba,S. Voutsinas,G. Walmsley,M. Weiler,K. Weingrill,D. Werner,Thomas Wevers,G. Whitehead,Łukasz Wyrzykowski,A. Yoldas,M. Žerjal,Shay Zucker,C. Zurbach,Tomaz Zwitter,A. Alecu,M. Allen,C. Allende Prieto,António Amorim,Guillem Anglada-Escudé,V. Arsenijevic,S. Azaz,P. Balm,M. Beck,H.-H. Bernstein,Lionel Bigot,Albert Bijaoui,C. Blasco,M. Bonfigli,Giuseppe Bono,Steve Boudreault,Alessandro Bressan,S. Brown,P.-M. Brunet,P. S. Bunclark,R. Buonanno,A. G. Butkevich,C. Carret,C. Carrion,Laurent Chemin,F. Chéreau,Leonardo Corcione,E. Darmigny,K. S. de Boer,P. de Teodoro,P. T. de Zeeuw,C. Delle Luche,Catherine Dominguès,Pierre Dubath,F. Fodor,B. Frézouls,A. Fries,Diego Fustes,D. Fyfe,E. Gallardo,J. Gallegos,Daniele Gardiol,M. Gebran,A. Gomboc,A. E. Gomez,E. Grux,A. Gueguen,A. Heyrovsky,J. Hoar,G. Iannicola,Y. Isasi Parache,A.-M. Janotto,E. Joliet,A. Jonckheere,R. Keil,Dae-Won Kim,Peter Klagyivik,Joakim Klar,J. Knude,Oleg Kochukhov,I. Kolka,Janez Kos,A. Kutka,Valéry Lainey,D. LeBouquin,Chao Liu,Davide Loreggia,Valeri V. Makarov,M. Marseille,Christophe Martayan,O. Martinez-Rubi,B. Massart,F. Meynadier,Shan Mignot,Ulisse Munari,A.-T. Nguyen,Thomas Nordlander,P. Ocvirk,K. S. O'Flaherty,A. Olias Sanz,P. Ortiz,J. Osorio,Dagmara Oszkiewicz,A. Ouzounis,M. Palmer,P. Park,Ester Pasquato,C. Peltzer,J. Peralta,F. Péturaud,T. Pieniluoma,E. Pigozzi,J. Poels,G. Prat,Thibaut Prod'homme,F. Raison,José Manuel Rebordão,D. Risquez,Brigitte Rocca-Volmerange,Simon Rosen,M. I. Ruiz-Fuertes,Federico Russo,Steven Sembay,I. Serraller Vizcaino,A. Short,A. Siebert,H. Silva,D. Sinachopoulos,Eric Slezak,Michael Soffel,Danuta Sosnowska,V. Straižys,M. ter Linden,Dirk Terrell,Stephan Theil,C. Tiede,L. Troisi,P. Tsalmantza,D. Tur,Mattia Vaccari,Frédéric Vachier,P. Valles,W. Van Hamme,L. Veltz,Jenni Virtanen,J.-M. Wallut,R. Wichmann,Mark I. Wilkinson,H. Ziaeepour,Sven Zschocke +624 more
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.
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Gaia Data Release 1 Summary of the astrometric, photometric, and survey properties
Anthony G. A. Brown,Antonella Vallenari,T. Prusti,J. H. J. de Bruijne,Francois Mignard,R. Drimmel,C. Babusiaux,Coryn A. L. Bailer-Jones,Ulrich Bastian,M. Biermann,D. W. Evans,L. Eyer,F. Jansen,Carme Jordi,D. Katz,Sergei A. Klioner,U. Lammers,Lennart Lindegren,Xavier Luri,William O'Mullane,C. Panem,Dimitri Pourbaix,Sofia Randich,P. Sartoretti,H. I. Siddiqui,Caroline Soubiran,V. Valette,F. van Leeuwen,Nicholas A. Walton,Conny Aerts,Frédéric Arenou,Mark Cropper,Erik Høg,M. G. Lattanzi,Eva K. Grebel,Andrew D. Holland,C. Huc,X. Passot,Michael Perryman,L. Bramante,C. Cacciari,J. Castañeda,L. Chaoul,N. Cheek,F. De Angeli,C. Fabricius,Raphael Guerra,Jonay I. González Hernández,A. Jean-Antoine-Piccolo,E. Masana,R. Messineo,Nami Mowlavi,Krzysztof Nienartowicz,D. Ordóñez-Blanco,P. Panuzzo,Jordi Portell,P. J. Richards,M. Riello,George M. Seabroke,Paolo Tanga,F. Thévenin,J. Torra,S. G. Els,G. Gracia-Abril,G. Comoretto,M. Garcia-Reinaldos,T. Lock,E. Mercier,Martin Altmann,Rene Andrae,Tri L. Astraatmadja,I. Bellas-Velidis,K. Benson,J. Berthier,R. Blomme,G. Busso,Benoit Carry,Alberto Cellino,G. Clementini,S. Cowell,O. Creevey,J. Cuypers,Michael Davidson,J. De Ridder,A. de Torres,Ludovic Delchambre,A. Dell'Oro,C. Ducourant,Yves Fremat,Miguel García-Torres,Eric Gosset,J.-L. Halbwachs,Nigel Hambly,D. L. Harrison,M. Hauser,Daniel Hestroffer,S. T. Hodgkin,H. Huckle,A. Hutton,Gérard Jasniewicz,S. Jordan,M. Kontizas,Andreas Korn,A. C. Lanzafame,Minia Manteiga,André Moitinho,Karri Muinonen,J. Osinde,Elena Pancino,T. Pauwels,J.-M. Petit,Alejandra Recio-Blanco,Annie C. Robin,L. M. Sarro,C. Siopis,M. J. S. Smith,K. W. Smith,Alessandro Sozzetti,William Thuillot,W. van Reeven,Y. Viala,Ummi Abbas,A. Abreu Aramburu,S. Accart,J.J. Aguado,P. M. Allan,Walter Allasia,G. Altavilla,M. A. Álvarez,João Alves,Richard I. Anderson,Alexandre Humberto Andrei,E. Anglada Varela,E. Antiche,Teresa Antoja,Sonia Anton,Bernardino Arcay,N. Bach,S. G. Baker,L. Balaguer-Núñez,C. Barache,C. Barata,A. Barbier,F. Barblan,D. Barrado y Navascues,M. Barros,M. A. Barstow,Ugo Becciani,Michele Bellazzini,A. Bello García,Vasily Belokurov,P. Bendjoya,A. Berihuete,Luciana Bianchi,Olivier Bienaymé,F. Billebaud,Nadejda Blagorodnova,S. Blanco-Cuaresma,T. Boch,Alex Bombrun,R. Borrachero,S. Bouquillon,G. Bourda,H. Bouy,Angela Bragaglia,Maarten A. Breddels,N. Brouillet,T. Brüsemeister,B. Bucciarelli,P. Burgess,R. Burgon,A. Burlacu,Deborah Busonero,R. Buzzi,Elisabetta Caffau,J. Cambras,H. Campbell,Rossella Cancelliere,Tristan Cantat-Gaudin,T. Carlucci,J. M. Carrasco,Marco Castellani,P. Charlot,J. Charnas,A. Chiavassa,M. Clotet,G. Cocozza,Ross Collins,G. Costigan,F. Crifo,Nicholas Cross,Mariateresa Crosta,C. Crowley,Carlos Dafonte,Yassine Damerdji,A. Dapergolas,P. David,M. David,P. De Cat,F. de Felice,P. de Laverny,F. De Luise,R. De March,D. de Martino,R. E. de Souza,Jonas Debosscher,E. del Pozo,Marco Delbo,A. Delgado,H. E. Delgado,P. Di Matteo,S. Diakite,E. Distefano,C. Dolding,S. dos Anjos,P. Drazinos,J. Durán,Y. Dzigan,Bengt Edvardsson,H. Enke,Nick Evans,G. Eynard Bontemps,C. Fabre,M. Fabrizio,Simchon Faigler,A. J. Falcão,M. Farràs Casas,L. Federici,Grigori Fedorets,J. Fernández-Hernández,P. Fernique,Agnes Fienga,F. Figueras,F. Filippi,K. Findeisen,A. Fonti,Morgan Fouesneau,E. Fraile,Morgan Fraser,J. Fuchs,Mario Gai,S. Galleti,Laurent Galluccio,D. Garabato,F. García-Sedano,A. Garofalo,N. Garralda,P. Gavras,J. Gerssen,R. Geyer,Gerard Gilmore,S. Girona,G. Giuffrida,M. Gomes,Ana González-Marcos,J. González-Núñez,J.J. González-Vidal,Mikael Granvik,A. Guerrier,Patrick Guillout,J. Guiraud,A. Gúrpide,R. Gutiérrez-Sánchez,Leanne P. Guy,R. Haigron,Despina Hatzidimitriou,M. Haywood,Ulrike Heiter,Amina Helmi,David Hobbs,W. Hofmann,B. Holl,G. Holland,Julie Ann Hunt,A. Hypki,V. Icardi,M. Irwin,G. Jevardat de Fombelle,Paula Jofre,P. G. Jonker,Alain Jorissen,F. Julbe,A. Karampelas,A. Kochoska,R. Kohley,Katrien Kolenberg,E. Kontizas,Sergey E. Koposov,Georges Kordopatis,P. Koubsky,Alberto Krone-Martins,Maria Kudryashova,I. Kull,R. K. Bachchan,F. Lacoste-Seris,Antonino F. Lanza,J.-B. Lavigne,C. Le Poncin-Lafitte,Yveline Lebreton,Thomas Lebzelter,S. Leccia,N. Leclerc,Isabelle Lecoeur-Taïbi,V. Lemaitre,H. Lenhardt,F. Leroux,Shilong Liao,E. Licata,H. E. P. Lindstrøm,T. A. Lister,E. Livanou,A. Lobel,W. Löffler,M. López,D. Lorenz,I. MacDonald,T. Magalhães Fernandes,S. Managau,Robert G. Mann,G. Mantelet,O. Marchal,Jon Marchant,Marcella Marconi,S. Marinoni,P. M. Marrese,G. Marschalkó,D. J. Marshall,J. M. Martín-Fleitas,Mario Di Martino,Nicolas Mary,G. Matijevič,Tsevi Mazeh,Paul J. McMillan,S. Messina,D. Michalik,N.R. Millar,B. M. H. Miranda,D. Molina,Roberto Molinaro,M. Molinaro,L. Molnár,M. Moniez,P. Montegriffo,R. Mor,A. Mora,R. Morbidelli,Thierry Morel,Stephan Morgenthaler,D. Morris,A.F. Mulone,Tatiana Muraveva,Ilaria Musella,J. Narbonne,Gijs Nelemans,Luciano Nicastro,L. Noval,C. Ordénovic,Joaquín Ordieres-Meré,P. Osborne,C. Pagani,I. Pagano,F. Pailler,H. Palacin,L. Palaversa,P. Parsons,M. Pecoraro,R. Pedrosa,H. Pentikäinen,B. Pichon,A. M. Piersimoni,F.-X. Pineau,E. Plachy,G. Plum,E. Poujoulet,A. Prša,L. Pulone,S. Ragaini,S. Rago,Nicolas Rambaux,M. Ramos-Lerate,Piero Ranalli,Gregor Rauw,A. Read,S. Regibo,Céline Reylé,Rita A. Ribeiro,L. Rimoldini,Vincenzo Ripepi,A. Riva,G. Rixon,M. Roelens,M. Romero-Gómez,Nicholas Rowell,F. Royer,L. Ruiz-Dern,G. Sadowski,T. Sagristà Sellés,Johannes Sahlmann,Jesus Salgado,E. Salguero,M. Sarasso,H. Savietto,Mathias Schultheis,Eva Sciacca,M. Segol,J. C. Segovia,D. Segransan,I.-C. Shih,Riccardo Smareglia,Richard L. Smart,E. Solano,F. Solitro,R. Sordo,Sonia Nieto,J. Souchay,Alessandro Spagna,Federica Spoto,U. Stampa,Iain A. Steele,H. Steidelmüller,C. A. Stephenson,H. Stoev,F. F. Suess,M. Süveges,Jean Surdej,Laszlo Szabados,E. Szegedi-Elek,D. Tapiador,Francois Taris,G. Tauran,Mark Taylor,R. Teixeira,D. Terrett,Brandon Tingley,Scott Trager,C. Turon,Ana Ulla,E. Utrilla,G. Valentini,A. van Elteren,E. Van Hemelryck,M. van Leeuwen,M. Varadi,Alberto Vecchiato,Jovan Veljanoski,T. Via,D. Vicente,Steven S. Vogt,H. Voss,V. Votruba,S. Voutsinas,G. Walmsley,M. Weiler,K. Weingrill,Thomas Wevers,Łukasz Wyrzykowski,A. Yoldas,M. Žerjal,Shay Zucker,C. Zurbach,T. Zwitter,A. Alecu,M. Allen,C. Allende Prieto,António Amorim,Guillem Anglada-Escudé,V. Arsenijevic,S. Azaz,P. Balm,Mattias Beck,H. H. Bernstein,Lionel Bigot,A. Bijaoui,C. Blasco,M. Bonfigli,Giuseppe Bono,Steve Boudreault,Alessandro Bressan,Sally Brown,P.-M. Brunet,P. Bunclark,R. Buonanno,A. G. Butkevich,C. Carret,C. Carrion,L. Chemin,F. Chéreau,Leonardo Corcione,E. Darmigny,K. S. de Boer,P. de Teodoro,P. T. de Zeeuw,C. Delle Luche,Catherine Dominguès,P. Dubath,F. Fodor,B. Frézouls,A. Fries,D. Fustes,D. Fyfe,E. Gallardo,J. Gallegos,D. Gardiol,M. Gebran,A. Gomboc,A. E. Gomez,E. Grux,A. Gueguen,A. Heyrovsky,J. Hoar,G. Iannicola,Y. Isasi Parache,A.-M. Janotto,E. Joliet,A. Jonckheere,R. Keil,Dae-Won Kim,P. Klagyivik,Joakim Klar,J. Knude,Oleg Kochukhov,I. Kolka,J. Kos,A. Kutka,Valéry Lainey,D. LeBouquin,C. Liu,Davide Loreggia,Valeri V. Makarov,M. G. Marseille,Christophe Martayan,O. Martinez-Rubi,B. Massart,F. Meynadier,S. Mignot,Ulisse Munari,A.-T. Nguyen,Thomas Nordlander,P. Ocvirk,K. S. O'Flaherty,A. Olias Sanz,P. Ortiz,J. Osorio,Dagmara Oszkiewicz,A. Ouzounis,M. Palmer,P. Park,E. Pasquato,C. Peltzer,J. Peralta,F. Péturaud,T. Pieniluoma,E. Pigozzi,J. Poels,G. Prat,T. Prod'homme,F. Raison,José Manuel Rebordão,D. Risquez,B. Rocca-Volmerange,Stefan Rosén,M. I. Ruiz-Fuertes,Federico Russo,Steven Sembay,I. Serraller Vizcaino,A. Short,A. Siebert,H. Silva,D. Sinachopoulos,E. Slezak,M. Soffel,D. Sosnowska,V. Straižys,M. ter Linden,Dirk Terrell,Stephan Theil,C. Tiede,L. Troisi,P. Tsalmantza,D. Tur,Mattia Vaccari,Frédéric Vachier,P. Valles,W. Van Hamme,L. Veltz,Jenni Virtanen,J.-M. Wallut,R. Wichmann,Mark I. Wilkinson,H. Ziaeepour,Sven Zschocke +590 more
TL;DR: The first Gaia data release, Gaia DR1 as discussed by the authors, 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.
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A ring system detected around the centaur (10199) chariklo
Felipe Braga-Ribas,Bruno Sicardy,Jose Luis Ortiz,Colin Snodgrass,F. Roques,R. Vieira-Martins,R. Vieira-Martins,R. Vieira-Martins,Julio Camargo,Marcelo Assafin,Rene Duffard,Emmanuel Jehin,Joe Pollock,Rodrigo Leiva,Marcelo Emilio,D. I. Machado,C. Colazo,E. Lellouch,Jesper Skottfelt,Jesper Skottfelt,Michaël Gillon,N. Ligier,L. Maquet,G. Benedetti-Rossi,A. Ramos Gomes,Pierre Kervella,Hektor Monteiro,Rafael Sfair,M. El Moutamid,M. El Moutamid,Gonzalo Tancredi,J. Spagnotto,Alain Maury,Nicolás Morales,Ricardo Gil-Hutton,S. Roland,A. Ceretta,Shenghong Gu,Xuefeng Wang,Kasper Harpsøe,Kasper Harpsøe,Markus Rabus,Markus Rabus,Jean Manfroid,Cyrielle Opitom,L. Vanzi,L. Mehret,L. Lorenzini,E. M. Schneiter,R. Melia,J. Lecacheux,François Colas,Frédéric Vachier,Thomas Widemann,L. Almenares,R. G. Sandness,F. Char,V. Perez,P. Lemos,Nicolás Marín Martínez,U. G. Jørgensen,U. G. Jørgensen,Martin Dominik,Fernando Roig,Daniel E. Reichart,Aaron P. LaCluyze,J. B. Haislip,K. M. Ivarsen,J. P. Moore,N. R. Frank,D. G. Lambas,D. G. Lambas +71 more
TL;DR: Observations of a multichord stellar occultation revealed the presence of a ring system around (10199) Chariklo, which is a Centaur—that is, one of a class of small objects orbiting primarily between Jupiter and Neptune—with an equivalent radius of 124 9 kilometres.
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Formation of asteroid pairs by rotational fission
Petr Pravec,David Vokrouhlický,David Polishook,Daniel J. Scheeres,A. W. Harris,Adrian Galad,Adrian Galad,Ovidiu Vaduvescu,F. Pozo,A. Barr,P. Longa,Frédéric Vachier,François Colas,D. P. Pray,J. Pollock,Daniel E. Reichart,K. M. Ivarsen,J. B. Haislip,Aaron P. LaCluyze,Peter Kusnirak,Tomáš Henych,Franck Marchis,Franck Marchis,B. Macomber,B. Macomber,Seth A. Jacobson,Yu. N. Krugly,A. Sergeev,A. Leroy +28 more
TL;DR: Photometric observations of a sample of asteroid pairs reveal that the primaries of pairs with mass ratios much less than 0.2 rotate rapidly, near their critical fission frequency, which concludes that asteroid pairs are formed by the rotational fission of a parent asteroid into a proto-binary system, which subsequently disrupts under its own internal system dynamics soon after formation.
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The size, shape, density and ring of the dwarf planet Haumea from a stellar occultation
Jose Luis Ortiz,Pablo Santos-Sanz,Bruno Sicardy,G. Benedetti-Rossi,Diane Berard,Nicolás Morales,Rene Duffard,Felipe Braga-Ribas,Ulrich Hopp,C. Ries,Valerio Nascimbeni,Valerio Nascimbeni,Francesco Marzari,V. Granata,V. Granata,András Pál,Cs. Kiss,Theodor Pribulla,R. Komžík,Kamil Hornoch,Petr Pravec,Paolo Bacci,Martina Maestripieri,L. Nerli,L. Mazzei,Mauro Bachini,F. Martinelli,Giacomo Succi,F. Ciabattari,Herman Mikuz,A. Carbognani,B. Gaehrken,Stefano Mottola,S. Hellmich,F. L. Rommel,Estela Fernández-Valenzuela,A. Campo Bagatin,Stefan Cikota,Aleksandar Cikota,J. Lecacheux,Roberto Vieira-Martins,Julio Camargo,Marcelo Assafin,François Colas,Raoul Behrend,Josselin Desmars,E. Meza,Alvaro Alvarez-Candal,W. Beisker,A. R. Gomes-Júnior,B. E. Morgado,Françoise Roques,Frédéric Vachier,Jérôme Berthier,T. G. Mueller,José M. Madiedo,Ozan Ünsalan,Eda Sonbas,N. Karaman,O. Erece,D. T. Koseoglu,T. Ozisik,S. Kalkan,Yavuz Güney,Mohammad Shameoni Niaei,O. Satir,Cahit Yeşilyaprak,Ç. Püsküllü,Afşar Kabaş,Osman Demircan,J. Alikakos,Vassilis Charmandaris,Giuseppe Leto,J. M. Ohlert,J. M. Christille,Róbert Szakáts,A. Takácsné Farkas,E. Varga-Verebélyi,Gábor Marton,A. Marciniak,Przemyslaw Bartczak,Toni Santana-Ros,M. Butkiewicz-Bąk,Grzegorz Dudziński,Victor Ali-Lagoa,Kosmas Gazeas,L. Tzouganatos,N. Paschalis,V. Tsamis,Agustín Sánchez-Lavega,Santiago Pérez-Hoyos,Ricardo Hueso,J. C. Guirado,V. Peris,R. Iglesias-Marzoa +94 more
TL;DR: Observations from multiple Earth-based observatories of Haumea passing in front of a distant star (a multi-chord stellar occultation) report the presence of a ring with an opacity of 0.5, which constrains the three-dimensional orientation of Haumesa and its triaxial shape, which is inconsistent with a homogeneous body in hydrostatic equilibrium.