Standard candles from the Gaia perspective

Autor(en)

Laurent Eyer, Lovro Palaversa, Nami Mowlavi, Thomas Lebzelter

Abstrakt

The ESA Gaia mission will bring a new era to the domain of standard candles.

Progresses in this domain will be achieved thanks to unprecedented astrometric

precision, whole-sky coverage and the combination of photometric,

spectrophotometric and spectroscopic measurements. The fundamental outcome of

the mission will be the Gaia catalogue produced by the Gaia Data Analysis and

Processing Consortium (DPAC), which will contain a variable source

classification and specific properties for stars of specific variability types.

We review what will be produced for Cepheids, RR Lyrae, Long Period Variable

stars and eclipsing binaries.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Astrophysik

Externe Organisation(en)

Universität Genf

Journal

Astrophysics and Space Science

Band

341

Seiten

207-214

Anzahl der Seiten

8

ISSN

0004-640X

Publikationsdatum

2012

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

103004 Astrophysik

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