Authors
Timo Prusti, JHJ De Bruijne, Anthony GA Brown, Antonella Vallenari, C Babusiaux, CAL Bailer-Jones, U Bastian, M Biermann, Dafydd Wyn Evans, L Eyer, F Jansen, C Jordi, SA Klioner, U Lammers, L Lindegren, X Luri, F Mignard, DJ Milligan, C Panem, V Poinsignon, D Pourbaix, S Randich, G Sarri, P Sartoretti, HI Siddiqui, C Soubiran, V Valette, F Van Leeuwen, NA Walton, C Aerts, F Arenou, M Cropper, R Drimmel, E Høg, D Katz, MG Lattanzi, W O’mullane, EK Grebel, AD Holland, C Huc, X Passot, L Bramante, C Cacciari, J Castañeda, L Chaoul, N Cheek, F De Angeli, C Fabricius, R Guerra, J Hernández, A Jean-Antoine-Piccolo, E Masana, R Messineo, N Mowlavi, K Nienartowicz, D Ordóñez-Blanco, P Panuzzo, J Portell, PJ Richards, M Riello, GM Seabroke, P Tanga, F Thévenin, J Torra, SG Els, G Gracia-Abril, G Comoretto, M Garcia-Reinaldos, T Lock, E Mercier, M Altmann, R Andrae, TL Astraatmadja, I Bellas-Velidis, K Benson, J Berthier, R Blomme, G Busso, B Carry, A Cellino, G Clementini, S Cowell, O Creevey, J Cuypers, M Davidson, J De Ridder, A De Torres, Ludovic Delchambre, A Dell’Oro, C Ducourant, Y Frémat, M García-Torres, Eric Gosset, J-L Halbwachs, NC Hambly, DL Harrison, M Hauser, D Hestroffer, ST Hodgkin, HE Huckle, A Hutton, Gérard Jasniewicz, S Jordan, M Kontizas, Andreas J Korn, AC Lanzafame, M Manteiga, A Moitinho, K Muinonen, J Osinde, E Pancino, T Pauwels, J-M Petit, A Recio-Blanco, AC Robin, LM Sarro, C Siopis, M Smith, KW Smith, A Sozzetti, W Thuillot, W Van Reeven, Y Viala, U Abbas, A Abreu Aramburu, S Accart, JJ Aguado, PM Allan, W Allasia, G Altavilla, MA Álvarez, J Alves, RI Anderson, AH Andrei, E Anglada Varela, E Antiche, T Antoja, S Antón, B Arcay, A Atzei, L Ayache, N Bach, SG Baker, L Balaguer-Núñez, C Barache, C Barata, A Barbier, F Barblan, M Baroni, D Barrado y Navascués
Publication date
2016/11/1
Journal
Astronomy & astrophysics
Volume
595
Pages
A1
Publisher
EDP sciences
Description
Gaia is a cornerstone mission in the science programme of the EuropeanSpace 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. Both the spacecraft and the payload were built by European industry. The involvement of the scientific community focusses on data processing for which the international Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC) was selected in 2007. Gaia was launched on 19 December 2013 and arrived at its operating point, the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth-Moon system, a few weeks later. The commissioning of the spacecraft and payload was completed on 19 July 2014. The nominal five-year mission started with four weeks of special, ecliptic-pole scanning and subsequently transferred into full-sky scanning mode. We recall the scientific goals of Gaia …
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