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Paper: |
The Flux Calibration of Gaia |
Volume: |
503, Calibrating Large Surveys and Future Facilities |
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243 |
Authors: |
Pancino, E. |
Abstract: |
The Gaia mission is described, along with its scientific potential and its updated science perfomances. Although it is often described as a self-calibrated mission, Gaia still needs to tie part of its measurements to external scales (or to convert them in physical units). A detailed decription of the Gaia spectro-photometric standard stars survey is provided, along with a short description of the Gaia calibration model. The model requires a grid of approximately 200 stars, calibrated to a few percent with respect to Vega, and covering different spectral types. |
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