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Gaia Early Data Release 3. Summary of the contents and survey properties
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…
In the realm of the Hubble tension-a review of solutions
Riess, Adam G.; Di Valentino, Eleonora; Melchiorri, Alessandro +6 more
The simplest ΛCDM model provides a good fit to a large span of cosmological data but harbors large areas of phenomenology and ignorance. With the improvement of the number and the accuracy of observations, discrepancies among key cosmological parameters of the model have emerged. The most statistically significant tension is the 4σ to 6σ disagreem…
Estimating Distances from Parallaxes. V. Geometric and Photogeometric Distances to 1.47 Billion Stars in Gaia Early Data Release 3
Bailer-Jones, C. A. L.; Rybizki, J.; Fouesneau, M. +2 more
Stellar distances constitute a foundational pillar of astrophysics. The publication of 1.47 billion stellar parallaxes from Gaia is a major contribution to this. Despite Gaia's precision, the majority of these stars are so distant or faint that their fractional parallax uncertainties are large, thereby precluding a simple inversion of parallax to …
The Radius of PSR J0740+6620 from NICER and XMM-Newton Data
Guillemot, L.; Kerr, M.; Ray, P. S. +25 more
PSR J0740+6620 has a gravitational mass of 2.08 ± 0.07 M⊙, which is the highest reliably determined mass of any neutron star. As a result, a measurement of its radius will provide unique insight into the properties of neutron star core matter at high densities. Here we report a radius measurement based on fits of rotating hot spot patte…
Gaia Early Data Release 3. The astrometric solution
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…
A NICER View of the Massive Pulsar PSR J0740+6620 Informed by Radio Timing and XMM-Newton Spectroscopy
Remillard, Ronald A.; Okajima, Takashi; Bogdanov, Slavko +27 more
We report on Bayesian estimation of the radius, mass, and hot surface regions of the massive millisecond pulsar PSR J0740+6620, conditional on pulse-profile modeling of Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer X-ray Timing Instrument event data. We condition on informative pulsar mass, distance, and orbital inclination priors derived from the jo…
Gaia Early Data Release 3. Parallax bias versus magnitude, colour, and position
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…
The eROSITA X-ray telescope on SRG
Finoguenov, A.; Böhringer, H.; Haberl, F. +90 more
eROSITA (extended ROentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array) is the primary instrument on the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) mission, which was successfully launched on July 13, 2019, from the Baikonour cosmodrome. After the commissioning of the instrument and a subsequent calibration and performance verification phase, eROSITA started a surv…
Cosmic Distances Calibrated to 1% Precision with Gaia EDR3 Parallaxes and Hubble Space Telescope Photometry of 75 Milky Way Cepheids Confirm Tension with ΛCDM
Casertano, Stefano; Riess, Adam G.; Yuan, Wenlong +4 more
We present an expanded sample of 75 Milky Way Cepheids with Hubble Space Telescope (HST) photometry and Gaia EDR3 parallaxes, which we use to recalibrate the extragalactic distance ladder and refine the determination of the Hubble constant. All HST observations were obtained with the same instrument (WFC3) and filters (F555W, F814W, F160W) used fo…
Gaia Early Data Release 3. Photometric content and validation
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…