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Gaia observations of naked-eye stars: status update

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2018

J. Sahlmann Open the ORCID record for J. Sahlmann [Opens in a new window] ,
A. Mora ,
J. M. Martín-Fleitas ,
A. Abreu ,
C. Crowley  and
M. Fink
J. Sahlmann
Affiliation:
Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA email: jsahlmann@stsci.edu European Space Agency, ESAC, P.O. Box 78, Villanueva de la Cañada, 28691 Madrid, Spain
A. Mora
Affiliation:
European Space Agency, ESAC, P.O. Box 78, Villanueva de la Cañada, 28691 Madrid, Spain Aurora Technology, Crown Business Centre, Heereweg 345, 2161 CA Lisse, The Netherlands
J. M. Martín-Fleitas
Affiliation:
European Space Agency, ESAC, P.O. Box 78, Villanueva de la Cañada, 28691 Madrid, Spain Aurora Technology, Crown Business Centre, Heereweg 345, 2161 CA Lisse, The Netherlands
A. Abreu
Affiliation:
European Space Agency, ESAC, P.O. Box 78, Villanueva de la Cañada, 28691 Madrid, Spain Elecnor Deimos Space, R. de Poniente 19, Ed. Fiteni VI, 28760 Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain
C. Crowley
Affiliation:
European Space Agency, ESAC, P.O. Box 78, Villanueva de la Cañada, 28691 Madrid, Spain HE Space Operations BV, Huygensstraat 44, 2201 DK Noordwijk, The Netherlands
M. Fink
Affiliation:
European Space Agency, ESAC, P.O. Box 78, Villanueva de la Cañada, 28691 Madrid, Spain
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Abstract

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ESA's Gaia space astrometry mission is performing an all-sky survey of stellar objects. At the beginning of the nominal mission in July 2014, an operation scheme was adopted that enabled Gaia to routinely acquire observations of all stars brighter than the original limit of G~6, i.e. the naked-eye stars. We present the current status and extent of those observations.

Keywords

space vehicles: instrumentscatalogsastrometrystars: distances
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 12 , Symposium S330: Astrometry and Astrophysics in the Gaia sky , April 2017 , pp. 343 - 344
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2018 

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