# 5.5.1 Verification

Author(s): Dafydd W. Evans

Extensive verification has been carried out on the outputs of the photometric processing. Here only a summary of the validation is given. More details can be found in Evans et al. (2018).

The results of the calibration process, in particular the calibration coefficients and quality statistics for the Large Scale and Small Scale calibrations were analysed and compared with the previous ones from Gaia DR1, showing an overall improvement and consistency between the median standard deviation values of the Large and Small Scale calibrations for comparable magnitude ranges.

Also the statistical analysis of the source photometry confirms the improvement in comparison to Gaia DR1, caused by better calibrations and Image Parameter Determination results (Section 2.4.8). Top of Fig. 5.25 shows the distribution of uncertainty on the weighted mean G-value as a function of the same G magnitude, with the mode of the distribution in orange, clearly below the same for Gaia DR1 in magenta.

Additional validation against several external catalogues, i.e., Tycho-2 (Høg et al. (2000)), APASS (Henden et al. (2015)) and SDSS DR12 (Alam et al. (2015)), shows finally that systematic effects are at the 10 mmag level except for the brightest sources ($G$ $<$ 3 mag).