Gaia Data Release 1. Summary of the astrometric, photometric, and survey properties

0471175 - ASÚ 2017 RIV FR eng J - Journal Article
Brown, A.G.A. - Vallenari, A. - Prusti, T. - de Bruijne, J.H.J. - Mignard, F. - Drimmel, R. - Babusiaux, C. - Bailer-Jones, C.A.L. - Bastian, U. - Biermann, M. - Fuchs, Jan - Koubský, Pavel - Votruba, Viktor … Total 592 authors
Gaia Data Release 1. Summary of the astrometric, photometric, and survey properties.
Astronomy & Astrophysics. Roč. 595, November (2016), A2/1-A2/23. ISSN 0004-6361. E-ISSN 1432-0746
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) LG15010
Grant - others:ESA(XE) ESA-PECS project no. 98058
Institutional support: RVO:67985815
Keywords : catalogs * astrometry, parallaxes * proper motions
OECD category: Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)
Impact factor: 5.014, year: 2016

Gaia DR1 is an important milestone ahead of the next Gaia data release, which will feature five-parameter astrometry for all sources. Extensive validation shows that Gaia DR1 represents a major advance in the mapping of the heavens and the availability of basic stellar data that underpin observational astrophysics. Nevertheless, the very preliminary nature of this first Gaia data release does lead to a number of important limitations to the data quality which should be carefully considered before drawing conclusions from the data.
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