• 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 2: Observational Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams 

      Babusiaux, C.; Manteiga, Minia; Álvarez, M. A.; Arcay, Bernardino; Dafonte, Carlos; Garabato, D. (EDP Sciences, 2018)
      [Abstract] Context. Gaia Data Release 2 provides high-precision astrometry and three-band photometry for about 1.3 billion sources over the full sky. The precision, accuracy, and homogeneity of both astrometry and photometry ...