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Gaia Early Data Release 3. Summary of the contents and survey properties
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039657 Bibcode: 2021A&A...649A...1G

Prusti, T.; Mazeh, T.; Zucker, S. +423 more

Context. We present the early installment of the third Gaia data release, Gaia EDR3, consisting of astrometry and photometry for 1.8 billion sources brighter than magnitude 21, complemented with the list of radial velocities from Gaia DR2.
Aims: A summary of the contents of Gaia EDR3 is presented, accompanied by a discussion on the difference…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 3545
Gaia Early Data Release 3. The astrometric solution
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039709 Bibcode: 2021A&A...649A...2L

Mora, A.; Esquej, P.; Jordan, S. +94 more

Context. Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3) contains results for 1.812 billion sources in the magnitude range G = 3-21 based on observations collected by the European Space Agency Gaia satellite during the first 34 months of its operational phase.
Aims: We describe the input data, the models, and the processing used for the astrometric con…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 986
Gaia Early Data Release 3. Parallax bias versus magnitude, colour, and position
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039653 Bibcode: 2021A&A...649A...4L

Biermann, M.; Klioner, S. A.; Lindegren, L. +14 more

Context. Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3) gives trigonometric parallaxes for nearly 1.5 billion sources. Inspection of the EDR3 data for sources identified as quasars reveals that their parallaxes are biased, that is, they are systematically offset from the expected distribution around zero, by a few tens of microarcseconds.
Aims: We att…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 787
Gaia Early Data Release 3. Photometric content and validation
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039587 Bibcode: 2021A&A...649A...3R

Gilmore, G.; Harrison, D. L.; Jordi, C. +39 more

Context. Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3) contains astrometry and photometry results for about 1.8 billion sources based on observations collected by the European Space Agency Gaia satellite during the first 34 months of its operational phase.
Aims: In this paper, we focus on the photometric content, describing the input data, the algori…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 621
Gaia Early Data Release 3. Catalogue validation
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039834 Bibcode: 2021A&A...649A...5F

Jordi, C.; Luri, X.; Cantat-Gaudin, T. +33 more

Context. The third Gaia data release is published in two stages. The early part, Gaia EDR3, gives very precise astrometric and photometric properties for nearly two billion sources together with seven million radial velocities from Gaia DR2. The full release, Gaia DR3, will add radial velocities, spectra, light curves, and astrophysical parameters…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia eHST 341
Gaia Early Data Release 3. The Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039498 Bibcode: 2021A&A...649A...6G

Prusti, T.; Mazeh, T.; Zucker, S. +420 more


Aims: We produce a clean and well-characterised catalogue of objects within 100 pc of the Sun from the Gaia Early Data Release 3. We characterise the catalogue through comparisons to the full data release, external catalogues, and simulations. We carry out a first analysis of the science that is possible with this sample to demonstrate its po…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 282
The SPHERE infrared survey for exoplanets (SHINE). III. The demographics of young giant exoplanets below 300 au with SPHERE
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038107 Bibcode: 2021A&A...651A..72V

Moutou, C.; Fantinel, D.; Dominik, C. +108 more

The SpHere INfrared Exoplanet (SHINE) project is a 500-star survey performed with SPHERE on the Very Large Telescope for the purpose of directly detecting new substellar companions and understanding their formation and early evolution. Here we present an initial statistical analysis for a subsample of 150 stars spanning spectral types from B to M …

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 198
Age dissection of the Milky Way discs: Red giants in the Kepler field
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038307 Bibcode: 2021A&A...645A..85M

Khan, S.; Valentini, M.; Chiappini, C. +16 more

Ensemble studies of red-giant stars with exquisite asteroseismic (Kepler), spectroscopic (APOGEE), and astrometric (Gaia) constraints offer a novel opportunity to recast and address long-standing questions concerning the evolution of stars and of the Galaxy. Here, we infer masses and ages for nearly 5400 giants with available Kepler light curves a…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 160
KiDS-1000 catalogue: Weak gravitational lensing shear measurements
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038850 Bibcode: 2021A&A...645A.105G

Hoekstra, Henk; Heymans, Catherine; Kuijken, Konrad +20 more

We present weak lensing shear catalogues from the fourth data release of the Kilo-Degree Survey, KiDS-1000, spanning 1006 square degrees of deep and high-resolution imaging. Our `gold-sample' of galaxies, with well-calibrated photometric redshift distributions, consists of 21 million galaxies with an effective number density of 6.17 galaxies per s…

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 148
Six transiting planets and a chain of Laplace resonances in TOI-178
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039767 Bibcode: 2021A&A...649A..26L

Alonso, R.; Bouchy, F.; Deleuil, M. +152 more

Determining the architecture of multi-planetary systems is one of the cornerstones of understanding planet formation and evolution. Resonant systems are especially important as the fragility of their orbital configuration ensures that no significant scattering or collisional event has taken place since the earliest formation phase when the parent …

2021 Astronomy and Astrophysics
CHEOPS Gaia 138