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K. Findeisen

Researcher at Paris Diderot University

Publications -  2
Citations -  5269

K. Findeisen is an academic researcher from Paris Diderot University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Astrometry & Cepheid variable. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 4102 citations.

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The Gaia mission

T. Prusti, +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. Testing parallaxes with local Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars

G. Clementini, +637 more
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).