RR Lyrae stars in the Gaia era
Autor: | Clementini, Gisella |
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Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
Popis: | Gaia, the European Space Agency spacecraft successfully launched on 19 December 2013, entered into nominal science operations on 18 July 2014 after a few months of commissioning, and has been scanning the sky to a faint limit of G = 20.7 mag since then. Gaia is expected to observe more than a hundred thousand RR Lyrae stars in the Galactic halo and bulge (most of which will be new discoveries), and to provide parallax measurements with about 10 {\mu}as uncertainty for those brighter than Comment: Invited review in: RR Lyrae 2015 - High-Precision Studies of RR Lyrae stars, Visegrad, Hungary, October 19-22, 2015, 8 pages. To be published in Communications from the Konkoly Observatory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Vol. 105 |
Databáze: | arXiv |
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