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Mark Cropper
Researcher at University College London
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Mark Cropper is an academic researcher from University College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Galaxy & White dwarf. The author has an hindex of 66, co-authored 361 publications receiving 33997 citations. Previous affiliations of Mark Cropper include University of Copenhagen & Max Planck Society.
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Gaia Data Release 2. Summary of the contents and survey properties
Anthony G. A. Brown,Antonella Vallenari,T. Prusti,J. H. J. de Bruijne,C. Babusiaux,Coryn A. L. Bailer-Jones,M. Biermann,D. W. Evans,L. Eyer,F. Jansen,Carme Jordi,Sergei A. Klioner,U. Lammers,Lennart Lindegren,Xavier Luri,Francois Mignard,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,M. G. Lattanzi,Joost M. Bakker,C. Cacciari,J. Castañeda,L. Chaoul,N. Cheek,F. De Angeli,C. Fabricius,Raphael Guerra,B. Holl,E. Masana,R. Messineo,Nami Mowlavi,K. Nienartowicz,P. Panuzzo,J. Portell,M. Riello,George M. Seabroke,Paolo Tanga,F. Thévenin,G. Gracia-Abril,G. Comoretto,M. Garcia-Reinaldos,D. Teyssier,Martin Altmann,Rene Andrae,M. Audard,I. Bellas-Velidis,K. Benson,Jérôme Berthier,R. Blomme,P. Burgess,G. Busso,Benoit Carry,Alberto Cellino,G. Clementini,M. Clotet,O. Creevey,M. Davidson,J. De Ridder,Ludovic Delchambre,A. Dell'Oro,C. Ducourant,J. Fernández-Hernández,Morgan Fouesneau,Yves Fremat,Laurent Galluccio,Miguel García-Torres,J. González-Núñez,J. J. González-Vidal,Eric Gosset,Leanne P. Guy,J.-L. Halbwachs,Nigel Hambly,D. L. Harrison,Jose M Hernandez,Daniel Hestroffer,S. T. Hodgkin,A. Hutton,G. Jasniewicz,A. Jean-Antoine-Piccolo,Stefan Jordan,Andreas Korn,Alberto Krone-Martins,A. C. Lanzafame,T. Lebzelter,W. Löffler,Minia Manteiga,P. M. Marrese,J. M. Martín-Fleitas,André Moitinho,A. Mora,Karri Muinonen,J. Osinde,E. Pancino,T. Pauwels,J.-M. Petit,Alejandra Recio-Blanco,P. J. Richards,L. Rimoldini,Annie C. Robin,L. M. Sarro,Christos Siopis,M. J. S. Smith,Alessandro Sozzetti,Maria Süveges,J. Torra,W. van Reeven,U. Abbas,A. Abreu Aramburu,S. Accart,Conny Aerts,G. Altavilla,M. A. Álvarez,R. Alvarez,João Alves,Richard I. Anderson,Alexandre Humberto Andrei,E. Anglada Varela,E. Antiche,Teresa Antoja,Bernardino Arcay,Tri L. Astraatmadja,N. Bach,S. G. Baker,L. Balaguer-Núñez,P. Balm,C. Barache,C. Barata,D. Barbato,F. Barblan,Paul S. Barklem,David Barrado,M. Barros,M. A. Barstow,S. Bartholomé Muñoz,J.-L. Bassilana,Ugo Becciani,M. Bellazzini,A. Berihuete,Stefano Bertone,Luciana Bianchi,O. Bienaymé,S. 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. Brüsemeister,E. Brugaletta,B. Bucciarelli,A. Burlacu,D. Busonero,A. G. Butkevich,R. Buzzi,Elisabetta Caffau,R. Cancelliere,G. Cannizzaro,Tristan Cantat-Gaudin,R. Carballo,T. Carlucci,J. M. Carrasco,Laia Casamiquela,Marco Castellani,Alfred Castro-Ginard,P. Charlot,L. Chemin,Andrea Chiavassa,G. Cocozza,G. Costigan,S. Cowell,F. Crifo,M. Crosta,C. Crowley,J. Cuypers,Carlos Dafonte,Yassine Damerdji,A. Dapergolas,P. David,M. David,P. de Laverny,F. De Luise,R. De March,D. de Martino,R. S. de Souza,A. de Torres,J. Debosscher,E. del Pozo,Marco Delbo,A. Delgado,H. E. Delgado,P. Di Matteo,S. Diakite,C. Diener,E. Distefano,C. Dolding,P. Drazinos,J. Durán,B. Edvardsson,H. Enke,K. Eriksson,P. Esquej,G. Eynard Bontemps,C. Fabre,M. Fabrizio,S. Faigler,A. J. Falcão,M. Farràs Casas,L. Federici,Grigori Fedorets,P. Fernique,F. Figueras,Francesco Filippi,K. Findeisen,A. Fonti,E. Fraile,Morgan Fraser,B. Frézouls,Mario Gai,S. Galleti,D. Garabato,F. García-Sedano,A. Garofalo,N. Garralda,A. Gavel,P. Gavras,J. Gerssen,R. Geyer,P. Giacobbe,Gerard Gilmore,S. Girona,G. Giuffrida,F. Glass,M. Gomes,Mikael Granvik,A. Gueguen,A. Guerrier,J. Guiraud,R. Gutiérrez-Sánchez,R. Haigron,Despina Hatzidimitriou,M. Hauser,M. Haywood,Ulrike Heiter,Amina Helmi,J. Heu,Thomas Hilger,David Hobbs,Werner Hofmann,G. Holland,H. E. Huckle,A. Hypki,V. Icardi,K. Janßen,G. Jevardat de Fombelle,Peter G. Jonker,Attila Juhasz,F. Julbe,A. Karampelas,A. Kewley,Joakim Klar,A. Kochoska,R. Kohley,K. Kolenberg,M. Kontizas,E. Kontizas,Sergey E. Koposov,Georges Kordopatis,Z. Kostrzewa-Rutkowska,P. Koubsky,Sébastien Lambert,Antonino F. Lanza,Y. Lasne,J.-B. Lavigne,Y. Le Fustec,C. Le Poncin-Lafitte,Yveline Lebreton,S. Leccia,N. Leclerc,I. Lecoeur-Taïbi,H. Lenhardt,F. Leroux,S. Liao,E. Licata,H. E. P. Lindstrøm,T. A. Lister,E. Livanou,A. Lobel,M. López,S. Managau,Robert G. Mann,G. Mantelet,O. Marchal,Jon Marchant,Marcella Marconi,S. Marinoni,G. Marschalkó,D. J. Marshall,M. Martino,Gábor Marton,Nicolas Mary,Davide Massari,G. Matijevič,Tsevi Mazeh,Paul J. McMillan,S. Messina,D. Michalik,N. R. Millar,D. Molina,R. Molinaro,L. Molnár,P. Montegriffo,R. Mor,R. Morbidelli,Thierry Morel,D. Morris,A. F. Mulone,T. Muraveva,I. Musella,Gijs Nelemans,Luciano Nicastro,L. Noval,W. O'Mullane,C. Ordénovic,D. Ordóñez-Blanco,P. Osborne,C. Pagani,I. Pagano,F. Pailler,H. Palacin,L. Palaversa,A. Panahi,Michał Pawlak,A. M. Piersimoni,F.-X. Pineau,E. Plachy,G. Plum,E. Poggio,E. Poujoulet,A. Prša,L. Pulone,E. Racero,S. Ragaini,N. Rambaux,M. Ramos-Lerate,S. Regibo,Céline Reylé,F. Riclet,V. Ripepi,A. Riva,A. Rivard,G. Rixon,T. Roegiers,M. Roelens,M. Romero-Gómez,Nicholas Rowell,F. Royer,L. Ruiz-Dern,G. Sadowski,T. Sagristà Sellés,Johannes Sahlmann,J. Salgado,E. Salguero,Nicoletta Sanna,Toni Santana-Ros,M. Sarasso,H. Savietto,M. Schultheis,Eva Sciacca,M. Segol,J. C. Segovia,Damien Ségransan,I.-C. Shih,L. Siltala,A. F. Silva,Richard L. Smart,K. W. Smith,E. Solano,F. Solitro,R. Sordo,Sonia Nieto,J. Souchay,A. Spagna,Federica Spoto,U. Stampa,Iain A. Steele,H. Steidelmüller,C. A. Stephenson,H. Stoev,F. F. Suess,Jean Surdej,Laszlo Szabados,E. Szegedi-Elek,D. Tapiador,F. Taris,G. Tauran,M. B. Taylor,Ramachrisna Teixeira,D. Terrett,P. Teyssandier,W. Thuillot,A. Titarenko,F. Torra Clotet,C. Turon,A. Ulla,E. Utrilla,S. Uzzi,M. Vaillant,G. Valentini,V. 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,H. Voss,V. Votruba,S. Voutsinas,G. Walmsley,M. Weiler,O. Wertz,T. Wevers,Łukasz Wyrzykowski,A. Yoldas,M. Žerjal,H. Ziaeepour,J. Zorec,Sven Zschocke,Shay Zucker,C. Zurbach,T. Zwitter +452 more
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.
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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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The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission
Neil Gehrels,G. Chincarini,G. Chincarini,Paolo Giommi,Keith O. Mason,John A. Nousek,Alan A. Wells,Nicholas E. White,S. D. Barthelmy,David N. Burrows,L. R. Cominsky,Kevin Hurley,F. E. Marshall,Peter Mészáros,Peter W. A. Roming,Lorella Angelini,Lorella Angelini,L. M. Barbier,Tomaso Belloni,Sergio Campana,P. A. Caraveo,M. M. Chester,O. Citterio,T. L. Cline,Mark Cropper,Jay Cummings,Jay Cummings,A. J. Dean,Eric D. Feigelson,E. E. Fenimore,Dale A. Frail,A. S. Fruchter,Gordon P. Garmire,Keith C. Gendreau,Gabriele Ghisellini,Jochen Greiner,Joanne E. Hill,S. D. Hunsberger,Hans A. Krimm,Hans A. Krimm,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Pawan Kumar,F. Lebrun,Nicole M. Lloyd-Ronning,Craig B. Markwardt,Craig B. Markwardt,Barbara J. Mattson,Barbara J. Mattson,Richard Mushotzky,Jay P. Norris,J. P. Osborne,Bohdan Paczynski,David Palmer,H.-S. Park,A. M. Parsons,J. A. Paul,Martin J. Rees,Christopher S. Reynolds,James E. Rhoads,T. P. Sasseen,Bradley E. Schaefer,A. Short,Alan P. Smale,Alan P. Smale,Ian Smith,Luigi Stella,Gianpiero Tagliaferri,Tadayuki Takahashi,Makoto Tashiro,Leisa K. Townsley,Jack Tueller,Martin J. L. Turner,M. Vietri,Wolfgang Voges,Martin Ward,Richard Willingale,F. M. Zerbi,W. W. Zhang +77 more
TL;DR: The Swift mission as discussed by the authors is a multi-wavelength observatory for gamma-ray burst (GRB) astronomy, which is a first-of-its-kind autonomous rapid-slewing satellite for transient astronomy and pioneers the way for future rapid-reaction and multiwavelength missions.
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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
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