Gaia Data Release 2
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Published:2018-10
Issue:
Volume:618
Page:A30
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ISSN:0004-6361
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Container-title:Astronomy & Astrophysics
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language:
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Short-container-title:A&A
Author:
Holl B.ORCID, Audard M., Nienartowicz K., Jevardat de Fombelle G., Marchal O., Mowlavi N., Clementini G., De Ridder J., Evans D. W.ORCID, Guy L. P.ORCID, Lanzafame A. C.ORCID, Lebzelter T., Rimoldini L., Roelens M., Zucker S., Distefano E., Garofalo A., Lecoeur-Taïbi I., Lopez M., Molinaro R., Muraveva T., Panahi A., Regibo S., Ripepi V., Sarro L. M., Aerts C., Anderson R. I.ORCID, Charnas J., Barblan F., Blanco-Cuaresma S.ORCID, Busso G., Cuypers J., De Angeli F., Glass F., Grenon M., Juhász Á. L., Kochoska A., Koubsky P., Lanza A. F., Leccia S., Lorenz D., Marconi M., Marschalkó G., Mazeh T.ORCID, Messina S., Mignard F., Moitinho A., Molnár L., Morgenthaler S., Musella I., Ordenovic C., Ordóñez D., Pagano I., Palaversa L., Pawlak M., Plachy E., Prša A., Riello M., Süveges M., Szabados L., Szegedi-Elek E., Votruba V., Eyer L.
Abstract
Context. The Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2) contains more than half a million sources that are identified as variable stars.
Aims. We summarise the processing and results of the identification of variable source candidates of RR Lyrae stars, Cepheids, long-period variables (LPVs), rotation modulation (BY Dra-type) stars, δ Scuti and SX Phoenicis stars, and short-timescale variables. In this release we aim to provide useful but not necessarily complete samples of candidates.
Methods. The processed Gaia data consist of the G, GBP, and GRP photometry during the first 22 months of operations as well as positions and parallaxes. Various methods from classical statistics, data mining, and time-series analysis were applied and tailored to the specific properties of Gaia data, as were various visualisation tools to interpret the data.
Results. The DR2 variability release contains 228 904 RR Lyrae stars, 11 438 Cepheids, 151 761 LPVs, 147 535 stars with rotation modulation, 8882 δ Scuti and SX Phoenicis stars, and 3018 short-timescale variables. These results are distributed over a classification and various Specific Object Studies tables in the Gaia archive, along with the three-band time series and associated statistics for the underlying 550 737 unique sources. We estimate that about half of them are newly identified variables. The variability type completeness varies strongly as a function of sky position as a result of the non-uniform sky coverage and intermediate calibration level of these data. The probabilistic and automated nature of this work implies certain completeness and contamination rates that are quantified so that users can anticipate their effects. Thismeans that even well-known variable sources can be missed or misidentified in the published data.
Conclusions. The DR2 variability release only represents a small subset of the processed data. Future releases will include more variable sources and data products; however, DR2 shows the (already) very high quality of the data and great promise for variability studies.
Funder
ESA PRODEX Mesures d’accompagnement Activités Nationales Complémentaires Swiss National Science Foundation Early Postdoc. Mobility fellowship Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) and Agenzia Spaziale Italiana Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales Israeli Centers for Research Excellence Hungarian Academy of Sciences through the Lendület Programme János Bolyai Research Scholarship Hungarian National Research, Development, and Innovation Office through grants OTKA/NKFIH Ministry of Human Capacities of Hungary ESA Polish National Science Center through ETIUDA grant Charles University in Prague EuropeanResearch Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020
Subject
Space and Planetary Science,Astronomy and Astrophysics
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