GAIA SPECTROSCOPY AND RADIAL VELOCITIES

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword iii
3. List of Participants vii
4. Contents ix
5. GAIA: Unprecedented Performance
6. GAIA: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PROJECT 3
7. PHOTOMETRIC AND IMAGING PERFORMANCE 27
8. GAIA SPECTROSCOPY AND RADIAL VELOCITIES 39
9. OVERVIEW OF GAIA DATA REDUCTION 55
10. RVS' RADIAL VELOCITIES ACCURACY 63
11. PERFORMANCE OF THE GAIA PHOTOMETRIC SYSTEMS IF, 2A & 3G 67
12. SPACE ASTROMETRY MISSIONS 69
13. Fundamental Physics: General Relativity
14. RELATIVISTIC MODELLING OF POSITIONAL OBSERVATIONS WITH MICROARCSECOND ACCURACY 93
15. FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS WITH GAIA 107
16. WHITE DWARFS AS TOOLS OF FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS: THE GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT CASE 123
17. Astrometric Impact on Stellar Astronomy
18. GAIA AND PHYSICS OF STELLAR INTERIORS 131
19. IMPORTANCE OF VERY ACCURATE LUMINOSITIES FOR STELLAR FORMATION AND EVOLUTION 145
20. Duplicity and Masses 155
21. THE OLDEST STELLAR POPULATIONS AND THE AGE OF THE UNIVERSE 163
22. Absolute Luminosities of Stellar Candle 171
23. ANALYSIS OF HUGE CATALOGUES. NEW METHODOLOGIES FOR THE VIRTUAL OBSERVATORIES 179
24. Sub-Stellar Objects: Brown Dwarfs and Exo-Planets
25. THEORY OF LOW MASS STARS AND BROWN DWARFS: SUCCESS AND REMAINING UNCERTAINTIES 191
26. FIELD BROWN DWARFS & GAIA 199
27. THE GAIA ASTROMETRIC SURVEY OF EXTRA-SOLAR PLANETS 207
28. DETECTION OF TRANSITS OF EXTRASOLAR PLANETS WITH GAIA 215
29. Structure, Formation and History of the Galaxy
30. DUST AND OBSCURATION IN THE MILKY WAY 225
31. A COMPLETE CENSUS DOWN TO MAGNITUDE 20: STELLAR POPULATION PROPERTIES 233
32. COMPONENTS OF THE MILKY WAY AND GAIA 245
33. ASTROMETRIC MICROLENSING WITH THE GAIA SATELLITE 257
34. STAR FORMATION: ON GOING AND PAST 265
35. MAPPING THE GALACTIC HALO TODAY AND IN THE FUTURE 273
36. PREPARING FOR THE GAIA MISSION: ASTROPHYSICAL PARAMETER DETERMINATION 277
37. Outside our Galaxy
38. GAIA AND THE STELLAR POPULATIONS IN THE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS 287
39. M 31, M 33 AND THE MILKY WAY: SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES 295
40. LOCAL GROUP DYNAMICS WITH GAIA 305
41. GAIA GALAXY SURVEY: A MULTI-COLOUR GALAXY SURVEY WITH GAIA 313
42. MULTI-COLOUR PHOTOMETRY WITH GAIA OF THE DIFFUSE SKY BACKGROUND 321
43. OBSERVATIONS OF QSOS AND REFERENCE FRAME WITH GAIA 327
44. The Solar System Revisited
45. THE IMPACT OF GAIA IN OUR KNOWLEDGE OF ASTEROIDS 343
46. OTHER OBJECTS IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM: TROJANS, CENTAURS AND TRANS-NEPTUNIANS 351
47. PREPARING GAIA FOR THE SOLAR SYSTEM 359
48. Posters
49. FURTHER PROCESSING OF THE HIPPARCOS VARIABILITY INDUCED MOVERS 367
50. POTENTIALS AND DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS TO BE USED FOR DYNAMICAL MODELLING WITH GAIA-LIKE DATA 371
51. ON THE KINEMATIC DECONVOLUTION OF THE LOCAL LUMINOSITY FUNCTION 375
52. GALACTIC STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION FROM STELLAR DYNAMICS 379
53. STELLAR POPULATIONS IN THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD: THE IMPACT FROM GAIA 383
54. Conclusion
55. FROM HIPPARCOS TO GAIA, AND BEYOND 387
56. Index 395