• A Blended Artificial Intelligence Approach for Spectral Classification of Stars in Massive Astronomical Surveys 

      Dafonte, Carlos; Rodríguez, Alejandra; Manteiga, Minia; Gómez García, Ángel; Arcay, Bernardino (MDPI AG, 2020-05-01)
      [Abstract] This paper analyzes and compares the sensitivity and suitability of several artificial intelligence techniques applied to the Morgan–Keenan (MK) system for the classification of stars. The MK system is based ...
    • CultUnity3D: a Virtual Spatial Ecosystem for Digital Engagement with Cultural Heritage Sites 

      López-Salas, Estefanía; Xuíz García, Adrián; Gómez García, Ángel; Dafonte, Carlos (MDPI, 2020)
      [Abstract] In order to help enhance public outreach and understanding of historical sites, we developed a virtual spatial ecosystem called CultUnity3D. It consists of a set of components specifically implemented within the ...
    • Discovery of a dormant 33 solar-mass black hole in pre-release Gaia astrometry 

      Manteiga, Minia; Álvarez, M. A.; Santoveña, Raúl; Panuzzo, P.; Pallas-Quintela, Lara; Garabato, D.; Gómez García, Ángel; Dafonte, Carlos; González Santamaría, I.; Torralba Elipe, Guillermo; Župić, Andrija (EDP Sciences, 2024)
      [Abstract] Context. Gravitational waves from black-hole (BH) merging events have revealed a population of extra-galactic BHs residing in short-period binaries with masses that are higher than expected based on most stellar ...
    • Gaia Data Release 3: Analysis of RVS spectra using the General Stellar Parametriser from spectroscopy 

      Recio-Blanco, A.; Torralba Elipe, Guillermo; Manteiga, Minia; Dafonte, Carlos; Garabato, D.; Gómez García, Ángel; González Santamaría, I.; Pallas-Quintela, Lara; Santoveña, Raúl; Silvelo, Arturo (EDP Sciences, 2023-06)
      [Abstract]: Context. The chemo-physical parametrisation of stellar spectra is essential for understanding the nature and evolution of stars and of Galactic stellar populations. A worldwide observational effort from the ...
    • Gaia Data Release 3: Analysis of the Gaia BP/RP spectra using the General Stellar Parameterizer from Photometry 

      Andrae, R.; Álvarez, M. A.; Dafonte, Carlos; Garabato, D.; Gómez García, Ángel; González Santamaría, I.; Manteiga, Minia; Pallas-Quintela, Lara; Santoveña, Raúl; Silvelo, Arturo; Torralba Elipe, Guillermo (EDP Sciences, 2023-06)
      [Abstract]: Context. The astrophysical characterisation of sources is among the major new data products in the third Gaia Data Release (DR3). In particular, there are stellar parameters for 471 million sources estimated ...
    • Gaia Data Release 3: Apsis. II. Stellar parameters 

      Fouesneau, M.; Álvarez, M. A.; Garabato, D.; Dafonte, Carlos; Gómez García, Ángel; González Santamaría, I.; Manteiga, Minia; Pallas-Quintela, Lara; Santoveña, Raúl; Silvelo, Arturo; Torralba Elipe, Guillermo (EDP Sciences, 2023-06)
      [Abstract]: Context. The third Gaia data release (Gaia DR3) contains, beyond the astrometry and photometry, dispersed light for hundreds of millions of sources from the Gaia prism spectra (BP and RP) and the spectrograph ...
    • Gaia Data Release 3: Apsis. III. Non-stellar content and source classification 

      Delchambre, L.; Garabato, D.; Dafonte, Carlos; Manteiga, Minia; Silvelo, Arturo; Álvarez, M. A.; Gómez García, Ángel; González Santamaría, I.; Pallas-Quintela, Lara; Santoveña, Raúl; Torralba Elipe, Guillermo (EDP Sciences, 2023-06)
      [Abstract]: Context. As part of the third Gaia Data Release, we present the contributions of the non-stellar and classification modules from the eighth coordination unit (CU8) of the Data Processing and Analysis Consortium, ...
    • Gaia Data Release 3: Astrophysical parameters inference system (Apsis). I. Methods and content overview 

      Creevey, O. L.; Garabato, D.; Torralba Elipe, Guillermo; Álvarez, M. A.; Dafonte, Carlos; Gómez García, Ángel; González Santamaría, I.; Manteiga, Minia; Pallas-Quintela, Lara; Santoveña, Raúl; Silvelo, Arturo (EDP Sciences, 2023-06)
      [Abstract]: Gaia Data Release 3 contains a wealth of new data products for the community. Astrophysical parameters are a major component of this release, and were produced by the Astrophysical parameters inference system ...
    • Gaia Data Release 3: Chemical cartography of the Milky Way 

      Recio-Blanco, A.; Garabato, D.; Álvarez, M. A.; Dafonte, Carlos; Gómez García, Ángel; González Santamaría, I.; Pallas-Quintela, Lara; Santoveña, Raúl; Silvelo, Arturo; Torralba Elipe, Guillermo; Manteiga, Minia (EDP Sciences, 2023-06)
      [Abstract]: Context. The motion of stars has been used to reveal details of the complex history of the Milky Way, in constant interaction with its environment. Nevertheless, to reconstruct the Galactic history puzzle in ...
    • Gaia Data Release 3: Exploring and mapping the diffuse interstellar band at 862 nm 

      Schultheis, M.; Garabato, D.; Álvarez, M. A.; Dafonte, Carlos; Gómez García, Ángel; Manteiga, Minia; González Santamaría, I.; Pallas-Quintela, Lara; Santoveña, Raúl; Silvelo, Arturo; Torralba Elipe, Guillermo (EDP Sciences, 2023-01)
      [Abstract]: Context. Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are common interstellar absorption features in spectroscopic observations but their origins remain unclear. DIBs play an important role in the life cycle of the ...
    • Gaia Data Release 3: Mapping the asymmetric disc of the Milky Way 

      Drimmel, Ronald; Manteiga, Minia; Garabato, D.; Álvarez, M. A.; Dafonte, Carlos; Gómez García, Ángel; González Santamaría, I.; Torralba Elipe, Guillermo (EDP Sciences, 2023)
      [Abstract] Context. With the most recent Gaia data release, the number of sources with complete 6D phase space information (position and velocity) has increased to well over 33 million stars, while stellar astrophysical ...
    • Gaia Data Release 3: Pulsations in main sequence OBAF-type stars 

      Ridder, Joris de; Manteiga, Minia; Garabato, D.; Álvarez, M. A.; Dafonte, Carlos; Gómez García, Ángel; González Santamaría, I.; Torralba Elipe, Guillermo (EDP Sciences, 2023)
      [Abstract] Context. The third Gaia data release provides photometric time series covering 34 months for about 10 million stars. For many of those stars, a characterisation in Fourier space and their variability classification ...
    • Gaia Data Release 3: Reflectance spectra of Solar System small bodies 

      Galluccio, L.; Manteiga, Minia; Garabato, D.; Álvarez, M. A.; Dafonte, Carlos; Gómez García, Ángel; González Santamaría, I.; Torralba Elipe, Guillermo (EDP Sciences, 2023)
      [Abstract] Context. The Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) has been routinely observing Solar System objects (SSOs) since the beginning of its operations in August 2014. The Gaia data release three (DR3) ...
    • Gaia Data Release 3: Stellar chromospheric activity and mass accretion from Ca II IRT observed by the Radial Velocity Spectrometer 

      Lanzafame, A. C.; Álvarez, M. A.; Dafonte, Carlos; Garabato, D.; Gómez García, Ángel; González Santamaría, I.; Manteiga, Minia; Pallas-Quintela, Lara; Santoveña, Raúl; Silvelo, Arturo; Torralba Elipe, Guillermo (EDP Sciences, 2023-06)
      [Abstract]: Context. The Gaia Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) provides the unique opportunity of a spectroscopic analysis of millions of stars at medium resolution (λ/I λ'a '11'500) in the near-infrared (845'872 nm). ...
    • Gaia Data Release 3: Stellar multiplicity, a teaser for the hidden treasure 

      Arenou, F.; Manteiga, Minia; Garabato, D.; Álvarez, M. A.; Dafonte, Carlos; Gómez García, Ángel; González Santamaría, I.; Torralba Elipe, Guillermo (EDP Sciences, 2023)
      [Abstract] Context. The Gaia DR3 catalogue contains, for the first time, about 800 000 solutions with either orbital elements or trend parameters for astrometric, spectroscopic, and eclipsing binaries, and combinations of ...
    • Gaia Data Release 3: Summary of the content and survey properties 

      Vallenari, A.; Manteiga, Minia; Garabato, D.; Álvarez, M. A.; Dafonte, Carlos; Gómez García, Ángel; González Santamaría, I.; Torralba Elipe, Guillermo (EDP Sciences, 2023)
      [Abstract] Context. We present the third data release of the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, Gaia DR3. This release includes a large variety of new data products, notably a much expanded radial velocity survey and a ...
    • Gaia Data Release 3: The extragalactic content 

      Bailer-Jones, C. A. L.; Garabato, D.; Álvarez, M. A.; Dafonte, Carlos; Gómez García, Ángel; González Santamaría, I.; Manteiga, Minia; Pallas-Quintela, Lara; Santoveña, Raúl; Silvelo, Arturo; Torralba Elipe, Guillermo (EDP Sciences, 2023-06)
      [Abstract]: The Gaia Galactic survey mission is designed and optimized to obtain astrometry, photometry, and spectroscopy of nearly two billion stars in our Galaxy. Yet as an all-sky multi-epoch survey, Gaia also observes ...
    • Gaia Data Release 3: The Galaxy in your preferred colours: Synthetic photometry from Gaia low-resolution spectra 

      Montegriffo, P.; Garabato, D.; Manteiga, Minia; Santoveña, Raúl; Álvarez, M. A.; Dafonte, Carlos; Gómez García, Ángel; González Santamaría, I.; Pallas-Quintela, Lara; Silvelo, Arturo; Torralba Elipe, Guillermo (EDP Sciences, 2023-06)
      [Abstract]: Gaia Data Release 3 provides novel flux-calibrated low-resolution spectrophotometry for '220 million sources in the wavelength range 330 nm ≤ λ ≤ 1050 nm (XP spectra). Synthetic photometry directly tied to a ...
    • Gaia Early Data Release 3: Acceleration of the Solar System from Gaia Astrometry 

      Manteiga, Minia; Álvarez, M. A.; Dafonte, Carlos; Garabato, D.; Gómez García, Ángel; González Santamaría, I.; Santoveña, Raúl (EDP Sciences, 2021)
      [Abstract] Context. Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3) provides accurate astrometry for about 1.6 million compact (QSO-like) extragalactic sources, 1.2 million of which have the best-quality five-parameter astrometric ...
    • Gaia Early Data Release 3: Structure and Properties of the Magellanic Clouds 

      Manteiga, Minia; Álvarez, M. A.; Dafonte, Carlos; Garabato, D.; Gómez García, Ángel; González Santamaría, I.; Santoveña, Raúl (EDP Sciences, 2021)
      [Abstract] Context. This work is part of the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium papers published with the Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3). It is one of the demonstration papers aiming to highlight the improvements ...