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Gisella Clementini
Researcher at INAF
Publications - 210
Citations - 14003
Gisella Clementini is an academic researcher from INAF. The author has contributed to research in topics: RR Lyrae variable & Cepheid variable. The author has an hindex of 52, co-authored 210 publications receiving 11216 citations. Previous affiliations of Gisella Clementini include ASTRON.
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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 2. Observations of solar system objects
Federica Spoto,Federica Spoto,Paolo Tanga,Francois Mignard,Jérôme Berthier,Benoit Carry,Benoit Carry,Alberto Cellino,Aldo Dell'Oro,Daniel Hestroffer,Karri Muinonen,Karri Muinonen,T. Pauwels,J. M. Petit,P. David,F. De Angeli,Marco Delbo,B. Frezouls,Laurent Galluccio,Mikael Granvik,Mikael Granvik,J. Guiraud,Jose M Hernandez,C. Ordénovic,Jordi Portell,E. Poujoulet,William Thuillot,G. Walmsley,A. G. A. Brown,Antonella Vallenari,T. Prusti,Jhj de Bruijne,C. Babusiaux,C. Babusiaux,C. A. L. Bailer-Jones,M. Biermann,D. W. Evans,L. Eyer,F. A. Jansen,Carme Jordi,Sergei A. Klioner,Uwe Lammers,Lennart Lindegren,Xavier Luri,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,Mario G. Lattanzi,J. Bakker,Carla Cacciari,J. Castañeda,L. Chaoul,N. Cheek,C. Fabricius,Raphael Guerra,B. Holl,Eduard Masana,R. Messineo,Nami Mowlavi,Krzysztof Nienartowicz,P. Panuzzo,M. Riello,George M. Seabroke,F. Thévenin,G. Gracia-Abril,G. Comoretto,M. Garcia-Reinaldos,D. Teyssier,Martin Altmann,Martin Altmann,Rene Andrae,Marc Audard,I. Bellas-Velidis,Kevin Benson,R. Blomme,P. Burgess,G. Busso,Gisella Clementini,M. Clotet,O. L. Creevey,Michael Davidson,J. De Ridder,Ludovic Delchambre,C. Ducourant,J. Fernández-Hernández,Morgan Fouesneau,Yves Fremat,Miguel García-Torres,J. González-Núñez,J. González-Núñez,J. J. González-Vidal,Eric Gosset,Leanne P. Guy,J. L. Halbwachs,Nigel Hambly,D. L. Harrison,Simon Hodgkin,A. Hutton,Gérard Jasniewicz,A. Jean-Antoine-Piccolo,Stefan Jordan,Andreas Korn,Alberto Krone-Martins,A. C. Lanzafame,A. C. Lanzafame,T. Lebzelter,W. Loeffler,Minia Manteiga,P. M. Marrese,P. M. Marrese,J. M. Martín-Fleitas,André Moitinho,A. Mora,J. Osinde,Elena Pancino,Elena Pancino,Alejandra Recio-Blanco,P. J. Richards,Lorenzo Rimoldini,Annie C. Robin,L. M. Sarro,Christos Siopis,Mike Smith,Alessandro Sozzetti,M. Sueveges,J. Torra,W. van Reeven,Ummi Abbas,A. Abreu Aramburu,S. Accart,Conny Aerts,Conny Aerts,G. Altavilla,G. Altavilla,M. A. Álvarez,R Alvarez,João Alves,Richard I. Anderson,Richard I. Anderson,Alexandre Humberto Andrei,Alexandre Humberto Andrei,Alexandre Humberto Andrei,E. Anglada Varela,E. Antiche,Teresa Antoja,Teresa Antoja,Bernardino Arcay,Tri L. Astraatmadja,Tri L. Astraatmadja,N. Bach,S. G. Baker,L. Balaguer-Núñez,P. Balm,C. Barache,C. Barata,D. Barbato,D. Barbato,F. Barblan,Paul S. Barklem,David Barrado,M. Barros,Martin A. Barstow,S. Bartholomé Muñoz,J.-L. Bassilana,Ugo Becciani,Michele Bellazzini,A. Berihuete,Stefano Bertone,Stefano Bertone,Stefano Bertone,Luciana Bianchi,Olivier Bienaymé,Sergi Blanco-Cuaresma,Sergi Blanco-Cuaresma,Sergi 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. Bruesemeister,E. Brugaletta,Beatrice Bucciarelli,A. Burlacu,Deborah Busonero,A. G. Butkevich,R. Buzzi,Elisabetta Caffau,Rossella Cancelliere,Giacomo Cannizzaro,Giacomo Cannizzaro,Tristan Cantat-Gaudin,Tristan Cantat-Gaudin,Ruth Carballo,T. Carlucci,J. M. Carrasco,Laia Casamiquela,Marco Castellani,Alfred Castro-Ginard,Patrick Charlot,Laurent Chemin,Andrea Chiavassa,G. Cocozza,G. Costigan,S. Cowell,F. Crifo,Mariateresa Crosta,C. Crowley,J. Cuypers,Carlos Dafonte,Yassine Damerdji,A. Dapergolas,M. David,P. de Laverny,F. De Luise,R. De March,R. S. de Souza,A. de Torres,Jonas Debosscher,E. del Pozo,A. Delgado,H. E. Delgado,S. Diakite,C. Diener,Elisa Distefano,C. Dolding,P. Drazinos,J. Durán,Bengt Edvardsson,Harry Enke,Kjell Eriksson,P. Esquej,GE Bontemps,C. Fabre,M. Fabrizio,M. Fabrizio,Simchon Faigler,A. J. Falcão,M. Farràs Casas,Luciana Federici,Grigori Fedorets,Pierre Fernique,Francesca Figueras,F. Filippi,K Findeisen,A. Fonti,E. Fraile,Morgan Fraser,Morgan Fraser,Mario Gai,S. Galleti,D. Garabato,F. García-Sedano,A. Garofalo,A. Garofalo,N. Garralda,A. Gavel,P. Gavras,P. Gavras,J. Gerssen,R. Geyer,Paolo Giacobbe,Gerard Gilmore,S. Girona,G. Giuffrida,G. Giuffrida,F. Glass,M. Gomes,A. Gueguen,A. Gueguen,A. Guerrier,R. Gutiérrez-Sánchez,R. Haigron,Despina Hatzidimitriou,M. Hauser,M. Hauser,M. Haywood,Ulrike Heiter,Amina Helmi,J. Heu,Thomas Hilger,David Hobbs,W. Hofmann,G. Holland,H. E. Huckle,A. Hypki,A. Hypki,Icardi,K Janssen,GJ de Fombelle,Peter G. Jonker,Peter G. Jonker,Attila Juhasz,F. Julbe,A. Karampelas,A. Kewley,Joakim Klar,A. Kochoska,A. Kochoska,R. Kohley,Katrien Kolenberg,Katrien Kolenberg,Katrien Kolenberg,M. Kontizas,E. Kontizas,Sergey E. Koposov,Sergey E. Koposov,Georges Kordopatis,Z. Kostrzewa-Rutkowska,Z. Kostrzewa-Rutkowska,P. Koubsky,Sébastien Lambert,A. F. Lanza,Y. Lasne,J.-B. Lavigne,Y. Le Fustec,C. Le Poncin-Lafitte,Y. Lebreton,Y. Lebreton,Silvio Leccia,N. Leclerc,Isabelle Lecoeur-Taïbi,H. Lenhardt,F. Leroux,Shilong Liao,Shilong Liao,E. Licata,H. E. P. Lindstrøm,T. A. Lister,E. Livanou,Alex Lobel,M. J. López,S. Managau,Robert G. Mann,G. Mantelet,O. Marchal,Jon Marchant,Marcella Marconi,S. Marinoni,S. Marinoni,G. Marschalkó,G. Marschalkó,D. J. Marshall,M. Martino,Gábor Marton,Nicolas Mary,Davide Massari,Gal Matijevic,Tsevi Mazeh,Paul J. McMillan,Sergio Messina,Daniel Michalik,N. R. Millar,D. Molina,Roberto Molinaro,László Molnár,Paolo Montegriffo,R. Mor,Roberto Morbidelli,Thierry Morel,Derek W. Morris,A. F. Mulone,Tatiana Muraveva,Ilaria Musella,Gijs Nelemans,Gijs Nelemans,Luciano Nicastro,L. Noval,William O'Mullane,D. Ordóñez-Blanco,P. Osborne,C. Pagani,Isabella Pagano,F. Pailler,H. Palacin,L. Palaversa,L. Palaversa,A. Panahi,Michał Pawlak,Michał Pawlak,A. M. Piersimoni,F. X. Pineau,Emese Plachy,G. Plum,E. Poggio,E. Poggio,Andrej Prsa,L. Pulone,E. Racero,S. Ragaini,Nicolas Rambaux,M. Ramos-Lerate,S. Regibo,Céline Reylé,F. Riclet,Ripepi,Alberto Riva,A. Rivard,Guy Rixon,T Roegiers,Maroussia Roelens,M. Romero-Gómez,Nicholas Rowell,F. Royer,L Ruiz-Dern,G. Sadowski,TS Selles,Johannes Sahlmann,Johannes Sahlmann,Jesus Salgado,E. Salguero,Nicoletta Sanna,Toni Santana-Ros,M. Sarasso,H. Savietto,Mathias Schultheis,Eva Sciacca,M. Segol,J. C. Segovia,Damien Ségransan,I-C. Shih,L. Siltala,A. F. Silva,R. L. Smart,K. W. Smith,Enrique Solano,F. Solitro,Rosanna Sordo,Sonia Nieto,J Souchay,Alessandro Spagna,U. Stampa,Iain A. Steele,H Steidelmueller,C.A. Stephenson,H. Stoev,F. F. Suess,Jean Surdej,László Szabados,E. Szegedi-Elek,D. Tapiador,D. Tapiador,F. Taris,G. Tauran,Mark Taylor,Ramachrisna Teixeira,D. Terrett,P. Teyssandier,A Titarenko,F. Torra Clotet,C. Turon,Ana Ulla,E. Utrilla,S Uzzi,M. Vaillant,Gaetano Valentini,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,Holger Voss,Votruba,S. Voutsinas,M. Weiler,O. Wertz,Thomas Wevers,Thomas Wevers,L. Wyrzykowski,L. Wyrzykowski,A. Yoldas,M Zerjal,M Zerjal,H. Ziaeepour,Juan Zorec,Sven Zschocke,Shay Zucker,C. Zurbach,Tomaz Zwitter +501 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the processing of the Gaia DR2 data, and describe the criteria used to select the sample published in Gaia DR 2, and explore the data set to assess its quality.
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Distances, Ages, and Epoch of Formation of Globular Clusters
TL;DR: In this paper, the Hipparcos parallaxes of local subdwarfs were used to estimate the distances and ages of the Galactic globular clusters (GCs) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).
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Ages of globular clusters from hipparcos parallaxes of local subdwarfs
Raffaele Gratton,Flavio Fusi Pecci,Eugenio Carretta,Gisella Clementini,C. E. Corsi,Mario G. Lattanzi +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used high-precision trigonometric parallaxes from the HIPPARCOS satellite coupled with accurate metal abundances (Fe/H, [O/Fe], and [α/Fe]) from high-resolution spectroscopy for a sample of about thirty subdwarfs.
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The VMC Survey - I. Strategy and First Data
Maria-Rosa L. Cioni,Maria-Rosa L. Cioni,Gisella Clementini,Léo Girardi,R. Guandalini,Marco Gullieuszik,Brent Miszalski,M. I. Moretti,Vincenzo Ripepi,Stefano Rubele,G. Bagheri,Kenji Bekki,Nicholas Cross,W. J. G. de Blok,R. de Grijs,Jim Emerson,Chris Evans,Brad K. Gibson,E. Gonzales-Solares,Martin Groenewegen,Mike Irwin,Valentin D. Ivanov,James R. Lewis,Marcella Marconi,J. B. Marquette,C. Mastropietro,Ben Moore,Ralf Napiwotzki,Tim Naylor,Joana M. Oliveira,Mike Read,Eckhard Sutorius,J. Th. van Loon,Mark I. Wilkinson,Peter R. Wood +34 more
TL;DR: The first science results, aimed at assessing the scientific quality of the VMC data, include an overview of the distribution of stars in colour-magnitude and colour-colour diagrams, the detection of planetary nebulae and stellar clusters, and the Ks band light-curves of variable stars.