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| Paper: |
The Gaia Mission, Binary Stars and Exoplanets |
| Volume: |
496, Living Together: Planets, Host Stars and Binaries |
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121 |
| Authors: |
Eyer, L.; Rimoldini, L.; Holl, B.; North, P.; Zucker, S.; Evans, D. W.; Pourbaix, D.; Hodgkin, S. T.; Thuillot, W.; Mowlavi, N.; Carry, B. |
| Abstract: |
On the 19th of December 2013, the Gaia spacecraft was successfully
launched by a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana and started its amazing journey
to map and characterize one billion celestial objects with its one
billion pixel camera. In this presentation, we briefly review the general
goals
of the mission and describe what has happened since
launch, including the Ecliptic Pole scanning mode. We also focus
especially on binary stars, starting with some basic observational aspects,
and then turning to the remarkable harvest that Gaia is expected to
yield for these objects. |
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