Gaia DR1 documentation Chapter 1: Introduction
Abstract
This chapter describes the Gaia mission, the Gaia spacecraft, and the organisation of the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC), which is responsible for the processing and analysis of the Gaia data. Furthermore, various properties of the data release are summarised, including statistical properties, sky-coverage maps, object statistics, magnitude histograms, error histograms, completeness, selection and filtering criteria, and limitations of the data.
- Publication:
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Gaia DR1 documentation
- Pub Date:
- December 2017
- Bibcode:
- 2017gdr1.reptE...1D