Wednesday, January 25, 2012

1201.4889 (Laurent Eyer et al.)

Standard candles from the Gaia perspective    [PDF]

Laurent Eyer, Lovro Palaversa, Nami Mowlavi, Pierre Dubath, Richard I. Anderson, Dafydd W. Evans, Thomas Lebzelter, Vincenzo Ripepi, Laszlo Szabados, Silvio Leccia, Gisella Clementini
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.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.4889

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