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Gaia Data Release 4 Papers
The Gaia Collaboration is preparing a set of publications associated with Gaia Data Release 4 (Gaia DR4) that describe the data processing and archive content. Most of them will be compiled into a "Gaia Data Release 4 Special Issue" planned for publication in A&A. The paper categories and titles are given in the table below. Direct links to the papers are provided when available.
Summary papers
These papers provide an overview of the Gaia mission and the contents of Gaia Data Release 4 and summarise specifics of the survey. The Gaia Data Release 4 paper will also discuss the limitations of the Gaia DR4 data and provides recommendations for responsible use.
Gaia DR4 collaboration papers
These papers include the main release overview paper and other papers authored by the entire Gaia collaboration.
Gaia DR4 processing papers
These papers give technical details on the processing and calibration of the raw data and describe the data products in the Gaia Data Release 4 archive. The processing papers are complementary to the Gaia Data Release Documentation.
Gaia DR4 performance verification papers
These papers give an overview of the science potential of Gaia Data Release 4. Without going into in-depth analyses, they give a short introduction to selected science topics that can be addressed with this release. The purpose of these papers is to demonstrate the scientific quality of the data through examples. These performance verification papers are not exhaustive or definitive treatments of the topics.
| Category | Title | ADS | arXiv |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summary paper | The Gaia Mission | 2016A%26A...595A...1G | 1609.04153 |
| Summary paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Content and properties | ||
| Gaia collaboration paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Planetary light bending and Gaia astrometry | ||
| Gaia collaboration paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves in Astrometric Residuals | ||
| Gaia collaboration paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Gaia observations and the gravitational light bending due to the Sun | ||
| Gaia collaboration paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Gaia Celestial Reference Frame 4 | ||
| Gaia collaboration paper | Discovery of a dormant 33 solar-mass black hole in pre-release Gaia astrometry | 2024A&A...686L...2G | 2404.10486 |
| Performance verification paper | Gaia Data Release 4: From the Magellanic Clouds to M31 and M33 | ||
| Performance verification paper | Gaia Data Release 4: The bottom of the main sequence | ||
| Performance verification paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Star Clusters: Detection, dynamics, and stellar variability | ||
| Performance verification paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Time delays in lensed quasars | ||
| Performance verification paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Dormant black holes discovered in binaries | ||
| Performance verification paper | Gaia Data Release 4: High accuracy dynamics of the nearest stars | ||
| Performance verification paper | Gaia Data Release 4: The mass-luminosity relation | ||
| Performance verification paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Exploring the Brown Dwarf Desert and the Architectures of Multiple Systems from Stellar Companions down to Giant Planets | ||
| Performance verification paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Dynamical and physical properties of small bodies from epoch astrometry | ||
| Performance verification paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Asteroid families as seen by Gaia | ||
| Performance verification paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Classical pulsating stars, a gold mine for exploring the Milky Way in space and time | ||
| Performance verification paper | Gaia Data Release 4: A Gaia view of massive and intermediate-mass stars | ||
| Performance verification paper | Gaia Data Release 4: The Exoplanet Candidate Catalogue | ||
| Performance verification paper | Gaia Data Release 4: The sounding line in the Local Group: anchoring Cepheids to the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds | ||
| Performance verification paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Global Patterns in the Quasar Proper Motions | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Deblending the RVS spectra | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Modelling of drift-scan-related effects in Gaia's point spread function | 2026A%26A...708A.174R | 2602.20906 |
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Crowded-Field Image Analysis | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Surface brightness profiles of galaxies and host galaxies of quasars | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: A catalogue of sources around quasars for the discovery of strong gravitational lensing systems | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: A tentative recipe for the parallax bias versus magnitude, colour, and position | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: The astrometric solution | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: The Gaia ESA archive | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Gaia DPAC processing, operations and tools at the processing centres | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Catalogue validation | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Astrometric binaries | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Astrometric orbit determination for exoplanet discovery | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Identification and filtering of radial velocity outliers using machine learning | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Spectroscopic characterisation of astrometric binaries by line integral analysis of Gaia RVS spectra | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: The astrophysical parameters | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Processing of emission-line stars by the RVS and Apsis pipelines | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Epoch RVS spectra and radial velocities | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Derivation and publication of the RVS data products | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Validation of the line broadening parameters | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Statistical parameters for radial velocity, line broadening and RVS magnitude time series | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: General variability detection | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Scientific validation of the astrophysical parameters | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: skew mapping | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Properties and validation of the radial velocities | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Characterising the variability of young stellar objects | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Microlensing Events from All Over the Sky with Photometry, Astrometry, and Lens Masses | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Long Period Variables | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Summary of the variability processing and analysis | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: New transiting planet candidates and Gaia’s view of known exoplanets | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Supervised classification of variable sources | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: The second Gaia catalogue of eclipsing binary candidates - identification and geometric modelling | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: The General Stellar Parametriser from spectroscopy (GSP-Spec) | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Search for binaries with compact companions through large-amplitude ellipsoidal modulation | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: The second Gaia catalogue of variable active galactic nuclei | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Astrometry of the brightest stars from non-nominal observations | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Measuring and validating radial velocities of RVS double lined spectra and the related SB2 orbital solutions | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Spectroscopic multiple star processing | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Reflectance spectra and taxonomy of Solar System small bodies | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Physical properties of small Solar System bodies from G, BP, and RP photometry | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Specific processing and validation of all-sky RR Lyrae and Cepheid stars - The RR Lyrae sample | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Specific processing and validation of all-sky RR Lyrae and Cepheid stars - The Cepheid sample | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Specific processing and validation of pre-main sequence oscillators | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Paper on the scientific validation of the pre-main sequence mass accreting stars parameters APs | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Photometric calibrations and catalogue | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: BP/RP calibrations and catalogue | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Source environment analysis | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Diffuse light imaging | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Synthetic photometry from Gaia BP/RP spectra and the Gaia-DR4 Synthetic Photometry Catalogue | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: External calibration of BP/RP low-resolution spectroscopic data | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Preprocessing of the BP/RP spectra | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Monitoring the Basic Angle | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Processing and validation of symbiotic star candidates | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Exoplanet orbit processing with radial velocity constraints | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Identification and resolution of close source pairs | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: A neural network's view on organizing 100 million variable sources using photometry and spectroscopy | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: Astrometric processing of resolved pairs | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: The second Gaia catalogue of eclipsing binary candidates - astrophysical modelling | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: A Galactic Census of Stellar Magnetic Activity | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: AVU/BAM in the first 66 months of Gaia operations | ||
| Processing paper | Gaia data processing. SEAPipe: The source environment analysis pipeline | 2023A%26A...679A.158H | 2310.03562 |
| Processing paper | Synthetic stellar libraries and simulations for astrophysical parametrization in the Gaia space mission | ||
| Processing paper | Stellar masses and ages in Gaia Data Release 4 from the Final Luminosity Age Mass Estimator algorithm | 2026arXiv260700264C | 2607.00264 |
| Processing paper | Performance analysis of extragalactic classifications in Gaia Data Release 4 | 2026A%26A...711A..62J | 2605.23388 |
| Processing paper | Gaia Data Release 4: MACCHININOS: MAchine-learning Cascade Classification via HIerarchical Nested INference On variable Stars |
Gaia DR4 Data Release Documentation
An extensive documentation will be available describing the processing done by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium to produce the Gaia Data Release 4. The data release documentation and processing papers are complementary.
Access the data release documentation for Gaia DR4
Access the PDF version of the data release documentation for Gaia DR4
Overview of documentation available for Gaia
How to cite the Gaia Data Release 4 documentation
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