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Stefan Jordan

Researcher at Heidelberg University

Publications -  202
Citations -  26056

Stefan Jordan is an academic researcher from Heidelberg University. The author has contributed to research in topics: White dwarf & Stars. The author has an hindex of 44, co-authored 195 publications receiving 20954 citations. Previous affiliations of Stefan Jordan include University of Tübingen & ASTRON.

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Gaia Data Release 2. Summary of the contents and survey properties

Anthony G. A. Brown, +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, +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: The astrometric solution

Lennart Lindegren, +92 more
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.
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Gaia Data Release 2: Observational Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams

C. Babusiaux, +451 more
TL;DR: In this article, the power of the Gaia DR2 in studying many fine structures of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (HRD) was highlighted, depending in particular on stellar population selections.
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Gaia Data Release 1 - Astrometry: one billion positions, two million proper motions and parallaxes

Lennart Lindegren, +83 more
TL;DR: Gaia Data Release 1 (Gaia DR1) as discussed by the authors contains a large amount of data collected by the Gaia satellite during the first 14 months of its operational phase, including positions, parallaxes, and proper motions to Hipparcos-type precision or better.