Astrophysical: Methods

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    Gaia Data Release 2. Processing the spectroscopic data
    Context. The Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2) contains the first release of radial velocities complementing the kinematic data of a sample of about 7 million...
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    Gaia Early Data Release 3. Acceleration of the Solar System from Gaia astrometry
    Context. Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3) provides accurate astrometry for about 1.6 million compact (QSO-like) extragalactic sources, 1.2 million of which...
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    Gaia early DR3 systemic motions of Local Group dwarf galaxies and orbital properties with a massive Large Magellanic Cloud
    Aims: We perform a comprehensive determination of the systemic proper motions of 74 dwarf galaxies and dwarf galaxy candidates in the Local Group based on Gaia...
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    Gaia FGK benchmark stars: abundances of α and iron-peak elements
    Context. In the current era of large spectroscopic surveys of the Milky Way, reference stars for calibrating astrophysical parameters and chemical abundances...
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    Gaia Focused Product Release: A catalogue of sources around quasars to search for strongly lensed quasars
    Context. Strongly lensed quasars are fundamental sources for cosmology. The Gaia space mission covers the entire sky with the unprecedented resolution of 0.18″...
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    Gaia Focused Product Release: Radial velocity time series of long-period variables
    Context. The third Gaia Data Release (DR3) provided photometric time series of more than 2 million long-period variable (LPV) candidates. Anticipating the...
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    Gaia Focused Product Release: Sources from Service Interface Function image analysis. Half a million new sources in omega Centauri
    Context. Gaia's readout window strategy is challenged by very dense fields in the sky. Therefore, in addition to standard Gaia observations, full Sky Mapper (SM...
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    Gaia-ESO Survey: Analysis of pre-main sequence stellar spectra
    Context. The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey is obtaining high-quality spectroscopy of some 100 000 Milky Way stars using the FLAMES spectrograph at the...
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    Galactic angular momentum in the IllustrisTNG simulation - I. Connection to morphology, halo spin, and black hole mass
    We use the TNG100 simulation of the IllustrisTNG project to investigate the stellar specific angular momenta (j *) of ~12 000 central galaxies at z = 0 in a...