Journal: Astronomy and Astrophysics

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    Fundamentals of the dwarf fundamental plane
    Aims: Star-forming dwarfs are studied to elucidate the physical underpinnings of their fundamental plane. Processes controlling dynamics are evaluated...
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    Further evidence for the presence of a neutron star in 4U 2206+54. INTEGRAL and VLA observations
    The majority of High Mass X-ray Binaries (HMXBs) behave like X-ray pulsars, revealing that they contain a magnetised neutron star. Among the four HMXBs showing...
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    Gaia colour-magnitude diagrams of young open clusters. Identification in the UBC catalogue and comparison between manual and automated analyses
    Context. Automated analyses of Gaia astrometric data have led to the discovery of many new high-quality open cluster candidates. When a good determination of...
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    Gaia Data Release 1. Open cluster astrometry: performance, limitations, and future prospects
    Context. The first Gaia Data Release contains the Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution (TGAS). This is a subset of about 2 million stars for which, besides the...
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    Gaia Data Release 1. Summary of the astrometric, photometric, and survey properties
    Context. At about 1000 days after the launch of Gaia we present the first Gaia data release, Gaia DR1, consisting of astrometry and photometry for over 1...
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    Gaia Data Release 1. Testing parallaxes with local Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars
    Context. Parallaxes for 331 classical Cepheids, 31 Type II Cepheids, and 364 RR Lyrae stars in common between Gaia and the Hipparcos and Tycho-2 catalogues are...
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    Gaia Data Release 2. Calibration and mitigation of electronic offset effects in the data
    Context. The European Space Agency's Gaia satellite was launched into orbit around L2 in December 2013. This ambitious mission has strict requirements on...
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    Gaia Data Release 2. Gaia Radial Velocity Spectrometer
    This paper presents the specification, design, and development of the Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) on the European Space Agency's Gaia mission. Starting...
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    Gaia Data Release 2. Processing the spectroscopic data
    Context. The Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2) contains the first release of radial velocities complementing the kinematic data of a sample of about 7 million...