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Gaia Alerts – An All-Sky Transient Survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2019

E. Breedt
E. Breedt*
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK emails: ebreedt@ast.cam.ac.uk
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Abstract

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In addition to its main goal of measuring the parallaxes of 109 stars in the Galaxy, ESA’s Gaia mission is also probing the time domain on a range of astrophysically interesting time-scales. The photometric measurements are processed for transient variability, and events that are discovered are published as a public alerts stream, known as Gaia Science Alerts. This talk gave an overview of the project to date, and highlighted its unique characteristics as a transient survey. It discussed briefly some of the recent scientific results which illustrate the broad range of science investigations enabled by the data. Gaia Alerts is particularly suited to the study of Galactic populations, as it covers the Galactic Plane with high astrometric precision and photometric accuracy.

Keywords

surveyscataloguesstars: activitystars: dwarf novæsupernovæ: general
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Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 14 , Symposium S339: Southern Horizons in Time-Domain Astronomy , November 2017 , pp. 12 - 15
Copyright
© International Astronomical Union 2019 

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