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GAIA DATA RELEASE DOCUMENTATION
Gaia Data Release 2
Documentation release 1.2
Gaia Data Release 2
Documentation release 1.2
I
Introduction to Gaia DR2
II
Gaia data processing
2
Astrometric and photometric pre-processing
3
Astrometry
4
Solar-System Objects
5
Photometry
6
Spectroscopy
6.1
Introduction
6.2
Properties of the input data
6.3
Calibration models
6.4
Processing steps
6.5
Quality assessment and validation
III
Gaia data analysis
IV
Gaia catalogue
V
Gaia archive
Miscellaneous
Bibliography
II
Gaia data processing
5.5.2
BP/RP flux excess
6.1
Introduction
Chapter 6
Spectroscopy
Author(s): Paola Sartoretti, Ronny Blomme, Marc David, George Seabroke
6.1
Introduction
6.2
Properties of the input data
6.3
Calibration models
6.4
Processing steps
6.5
Quality assessment and validation
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