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Astrometry and Astrophysics in the Gaia Sky (IAU S330)

Astrometry and Astrophysics in the Gaia Sky (IAU S330)

Recio-Blanco, Alejandra
de Laverny, Patrick
Brown, Anthony G. a.

Hardcover

Series: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union Symposia

Physics

ISBN10: 1107170087
ISBN13: 9781107170087
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Apr 19 2018
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.84
Height: 0.85 Width: 7.18 Depth: 10.05
Language: English
Astrometry has historically been fundamental to all the fields of astronomy, driving many revolutionary scientific results. ESA's Gaia mission is astrometrically, photometrically and spectroscopically surveying the full sky, measuring around a billion stars to magnitude 20, to allow stellar distance and age estimations with unprecedented accuracy. With the complement of radial velocities, it will provide the full kinematic information of these targets, while the photometric and spectroscopic data will be used to classify objects and astrophysically characterize stars. IAU Symposium 330 reviews the first 2.5 years of Gaia activities and discusses the scientific results derived from the first Gaia data release (GDR1). This significant increase in the precision of the astrometric measurements has sharpened our view of the Milky Way and the physical processes involved in stellar and galactic evolution. To many, the Gaia revolution heralds a transformation comparable to the impact of the telescope's invention four centuries ago.

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