• 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: Catalogue validation 

      Babusiaux, C.; Álvarez, M. A.; Dafonte, Carlos; Manteiga, Minia; Santoveña, Raúl; Torralba Elipe, Guillermo (EDP Sciences, 2023-06)
      [Abstract]: Context. The third Gaia data release (DR3) provides a wealth of new data products. The early part of the release, Gaia EDR3, already provided the astrometric and photometric data for nearly two billion sources. ...
    • Gaia Focused Product Release: A catalogue of sources around quasars to search for strongly lensed quasars 

      Krone-Martins, A.; Garabato, D.; Álvarez, M. A.; Dafonte, Carlos; Gómez García, Ángel; González Santamaría, I.; Pallas-Quintela, Lara; Santoveña, Raúl; Torralba Elipe, Guillermo; Manteiga, Minia (EDP Sciences, 2024-05-17)
      [Abstract]: Context. Strongly lensed quasars are fundamental sources for cosmology. The Gaia space mission covers the entire sky with the unprecedented resolution of 0.18″ in the optical, making it an ideal instrument to ...