ARI's "Geschichte des Fixsternhimmels" is an attempt to collect all
astrometrically useful observations from before ca. 1970 in a way
comparable to what has been done to construct the FK* series of
fundamental catalogs. About 7e6 published positions are included.
In GAVO's DC, we provide tables of identified and non-identified stars
together with the master catalog that objects were identified against.
ARI's "Geschichte des Fixsternhimmels" is an attempt to collect all
astrometrically useful observations from before ca. 1970 in a way
comparable to what has been done to construct the FK* series of
fundamental catalogs. About 7e6 published positions are included.
In GAVO's DC, we provide tables of identified and non-identified stars
together with the master catalog that objects were identified against.
The catalogue ARIHIP has been constructed by selecting the 'best
data' for a given star from combinations of HIPPARCOS data with Boss'
GC and/or the Tycho-2 catalogue as well as the FK6. It provides 'best
data' for 90 842 stars with a typical mean error of 0.89 mas/year
(about a factor of 1.3 better than Hipparcos for this sample of
stars).
Differences between UCAC3 and PPMXL in positions and proper
motions, on
an all-sky one-degree grid. At each gridpoint we give the
differences X(PPMXL)- X(UCAC3) averaged over all stars in
a sqrt(2)/2-degrees environment around the gridpoint given. The
corrections given here should bring UCAC3 based astrometry to the ICRS.
Differences between USNO-B and PPMXL in positions and proper
motions, on
an all-sky one-degree grid. At each gridpoint we give the
differences X(PPMXL)- X(USNO-B1.0) averaged over all stars in
a sqrt(2)/2-degrees environment around the gridpoint given. The
corrections given here should bring USNO-B based astrometry to the ICRS.
Estimated distances to 1.33 billion stars in Gaia DR2
Short Name:
gdr2dist scs
Date:
27 Dec 2024 08:31:05
Publisher:
The GAVO DC team
Description:
This catalogue provides distances estimates (and uncertainties therein)
for 1.33 billion stars over the whole sky brighter than about G=20.7.
These have been estimated using the parallaxes (and their uncertainties)
from Gaia DR2. A Bayesian procedure was used involving a prior
with a single parameter L(l,b), which varies smoothly with Galactic
longitude and latitude according to a Galaxy model. The posterior is
summarized with a point estimate (usually the mode) and a confidence
interval (usually the 68% highest density interval). The estimation
procedure is described in detail in the `accompanying paper`_,
which also analyses the catalogue content.
.. _accompanying paper: http://www.mpia.de/homes/calj/gdr2_distances.html
This table, corresponding to gaia_source of the full DR1, contains
the 1.15 billion objects reliably detected in the first 14 months of
Gaia observations. It essentially consists of high-precision positions
and magnitudes. The TGAS subset (about 2 million objects observed by
both Gaia and Hipparcos) has proper motions and parallaxes. Users are
advised to beware strong correlations between the astrometric
parameters present for some of the less densely observed objects and
the inhomogeneous coverage in this first data release (solution id:
1635378410781933568).
A table of the light curves released with Gaia DR2 (about half a million
in total). In each Gaia band (G, BP, RP), we give epochs, fluxes and
their errors in arrays. We do not include the quality flags (DR2: “may
be safely ignored for many general purpose applications”). You can
access them through the associated datalink service if you select
source_id. You will usually join this table with gaia.dr2light.
We have also removed all entries with NaN observation times; hence,
the array lengths in the different bands can be significantly different,
and the indices in transit_ids do not always correspond to the
indices in the time series.
Furthermore, we only give fluxes and their errors here rather than
magnitudes. Fluxes can be turned into magnitude using::
mag = -2.5 log10(flux)+zero point,
where the zero points assumed for Gaia DR2 are
25.6884±0.0018 in G, 25.3514±0.0014 in BP, and
24.7619±0.0019 in RP (VEGAMAG).
This schema contains data re-published from the official
Gaia mirrors (such as ivo://uni-heidelberg.de/gaia/tap) either to
support combining its data with local tables (the various Xlite tables)
or to make the data more accessible to VO clients (e.g., epoch fluxes).
Other Gaia-related data is found in, among others, the gdr2dist, gdr3mock,
gdr3spec, gedr3auto, gedr3dist, gedr3mock, and gedr3spur schemas.
This service exposes about 0.5 million light curves of stars
classified as variable by the Gaia analysis system through the VO SSAP
protocol. The lightcurves are published per-band and are also
available through obscore.