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Thomas Wevers

Researcher at University of Cambridge

Publications -  82
Citations -  12531

Thomas Wevers is an academic researcher from University of Cambridge. The author has contributed to research in topics: Astrometry & Stars. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 62 publications receiving 9065 citations. Previous affiliations of Thomas Wevers include Radboud University Nijmegen & European Southern Observatory.

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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 Summary of the astrometric, photometric, and survey properties

Anthony G. A. Brown, +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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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 2. Observations of solar system objects

Federica Spoto, +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.