Gaia data access - Gaia
Gaia data access
Gaia data is accessible from several data centres, among which the Gaia ESA Archive at the ESAC Science Data Centre (ESDC). The Gaia ESA Archive hosts all data of all data releases and acts as mission legacy archive.
Subsets or the full contents of Gaia data releases are also served by our partner data centres: Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (ARI), ASI Space Science Data Centre (ASI SSDC), Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS), and the Flatiron Institute. Next to the Gaia ESA Archive and its partner data centres, several affiliate data centres bring (parts of) the data to their own institutes or their local communities.
ESA Gaia Archive
The Gaia data is made available through the Gaia ESA Archive. The Gaia ESA Archive is physically located at the ESAC Science Data Centre (ESDC), Madrid, and is developed and operated by the ESA Science Archives Team.
Partner data centres
In addition to the Gaia Archive, several partner data centres offer access to the Gaia data. These partner data centres are integrated in CU9, the coordination unit of our Data Processing and Analysis Consortium responsible for Catalogue Access. They offer some extra services in coordination with the main Gaia Archive.
Our partner data centers are:
Affiliate data centres
In addition to the Gaia Archive and the Gaia partner data centres, some other institutes host a full copy of the Gaia data. Some of these affiliate data centres host a local copy for use internally at the institute, while others make the copy available to the community as well. The affiliate data centres are in contact with CU9, the coordination unit of our Data Processing and Analysis Consortium responsible for Catalogue Access.
Publicly accessible webpages of our affiliate data centres:
Observatoire de Paris-Meudon / GEPI (France)
National Astronomical Observatory (NAOJ) of Japan
Port d'informació científica (PIC) Barcelona in Spain
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute in The Netherlands
Affiliate Data Centres with internal access only
US Naval Observatory (USNO) in the USA
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in the USA
Infrared Science Archive (IRSA) in the USA
Monash University in Australia
Australian Astronomical Observatory in Australia
Institute of Astronomy in the UK
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute in The Netherlands
Port d'Informacío Científica (PIC) in Spain