Gaia, counting down to launch
Abstract
In this contribution I provide an overview of the the European Space Agency's Gaia mission just ahead of its launch scheduled for November 2013.
- Publication:
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SF2A-2013: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- November 2013
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1310.3485
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1310.3485
- Bibcode:
- 2013sf2a.conf....3B
- Keywords:
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- Gaia;
- space astrometry;
- Milky Way;
- photometry;
- spectroscopy;
- surveys;
- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - Galaxy Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 6 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the Societe Francaise d'Astronomie et d'Astrophysique (SF2A) 2013 (eds. L. Cambresy, F. Martins, E. Nuss and A. Palacios)