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2023-02-07 Updates to the Gaia Archive data tables

7 February 2023Today, three tables have been added to the Gaia Data Release 3 catalogue in the Gaia Archive: (1) A new table chemical_cartography was added derived from the paper "Gaia Data Release 3: Chemical cartography of the Milky Way" (2) A new table vari_spurious_signals was added derived from the paper "Gaia Data Release 3: Gaia scan-angle dependent...

2023-02-07 Graduate Trainee positions at ESA

7 February 2023The ESA graduate trainee positions for 2023 have been published, and one of them covers activities for the Gaia mission. Applications for the position "Young Graduate Trainee in Machine-Learning Techniques Application for Astrometry - Gaia" are welcome. Deadline for applications is 28 February 2023. If you have any questions on the ESA graduate...

2023-02-06 Short downtime for the Gaia Archive

6 February 2023The Gaia Archive will be shortly down on Tuesday 7 February between 10:00 and 11:00 CET for a micro data release update. More details can be found in the release notes once the Gaia Archive is back up.

2023-01-31 Gaia reaches to the clouds – 3D kinematics of the LMC

31 January 2023With Gaia's Early Data Release 3 the structure and properties of the Magellanic Clouds were highlighted by the Gaia Collaboration, X. Luri, et al. A&A 2020. The paper demonstrates the quality of the Gaia data and a story discussing these results was published. Now, with the release of almost 34 million line-of-sight velocities with Gaia's full...

2023-01-25 Meet your neighbours: CNS5 - the fifth catalogue of nearby stars

25 January 2023The recently published CNS5 catalogue (The Fifth Catalogue of Nearby Stars) is an update to the Gliese-Jahreiß Catalogue of Nearby Stars and contains all known objects located within 25 parsecs (about 81.5 light-years) of the Sun. The CNS5 contains in total 5931 objects, including 5230 stars and 701 brown dwarfs. Of the stars, 4946 are...

2022-12-18 A single-object visualisation tool for Gaia objects

18 January 2023As part of Gaia’s third data release (Gaia DR3), millions of stars now have their spectra and/or light curves revealed by Gaia. Whereas the Gaia ESA Archive already offers an interactive visualisation service that is meant to explore the data in bulk, the Archive now also offers a single-object visualisation tool to explore the new data.

2023-01-17 Gaia Archive upgrade to version 3.2.1

17 January 2023Tomorrow, Wednesday 18 January between 11:00 and 12:00 CET, the Gaia Archive will be upgraded to a new version 3.2.1 and will be down for maintenance for a short while.

2023-01-12 Gaia Focused Product Release

12 January 2023The anticipated contents of the Gaia Focused Product Release are summarized below. These data sets are based on 34 months of data (same period covering Gaia's data release 3) with the exception of the updated astrometry for Solar System objects, which will be based on an extended period of data. With respect to the previous announcement, the...