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gaia data release 3 documentation

Miscellaneous

Credit and citation instructions

If you have used Gaia DR3 data in your research, please use the following acknowledgement:

This work has made use of data from the European Space Agency (ESA) mission Gaia (https://www.cosmos.esa.int/gaia), processed by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC, https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dpac/consortium). Funding for the DPAC has been provided by national institutions, in particular the institutions participating in the Gaia Multilateral Agreement.

The LaTeX version is:

This work has made use of data from the European Space Agency (ESA) mission
{\it Gaia} (\url{https://www.cosmos.esa.int/gaia}), processed by the {\it Gaia}
Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC,
\url{https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dpac/consortium}). Funding for the DPAC
has been provided by national institutions, in particular the institutions
participating in the {\it Gaia} Multilateral Agreement.

If you have used Gaia DR3 data in your research, please cite both the Gaia mission paper and the Gaia DR3 release paper:

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    Gaia Collaboration et al. (2016b): The Gaia mission (provides a description of the Gaia mission including spacecraft, instruments, survey and measurement principles, and operations);

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    Gaia Collaboration et al. (2023j): Gaia DR3: Summary of the contents and survey properties.

In addition, please cite (some of) the following papers that describe the data release contents and DPAC data processing and validation in more detail, as appropriate:

For reference, the following papers describe the early instalment of this data release (Gaia EDR3):

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    Gaia Collaboration et al. (2021a): Gaia EDR3: Summary of the contents and survey properties;

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    Riello et al. (2021): Gaia EDR3: Photometric content and validation;

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    Seabroke et al. (2021): Gaia EDR3: Updated radial velocities from Gaia DR2;

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    Torra et al. (2021): Gaia EDR3: Building the Gaia DR3 source list – Cross-match of Gaia observations;

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    Fabricius et al. (2021): Gaia EDR3: Catalogue validation;

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    Lindegren et al. (2021b): Gaia EDR3: The astrometric solution;

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    Gaia Collaboration et al. (2022): Gaia EDR3: The celestial reference frame (Gaia-CRF3);

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    Lindegren et al. (2021a): Gaia EDR3: Parallax bias versus magnitude, colour, and position;

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    Rowell et al. (2021): Gaia EDR3: Modelling and calibration of Gaia’s point and line spread functions.

For reference, the following papers describe the performance verification that DPAC has performed on Gaia DR3:

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    Gaia Collaboration et al. (2023e): Gaia DR3: Mapping the asymmetric disc of the Milky Way;

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    Gaia Collaboration et al. (2023d): Gaia DR3: Pulsations in main-sequence OBAF stars as observed by Gaia;

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    Gaia Collaboration et al. (2023f): Gaia DR3: Reflectance spectra of solar system small bodies;

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    Gaia Collaboration et al. (2023g): Gaia DR3: The Galaxy in your preferred colours – synthetic photometry from Gaia low-resolution spectra;

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    Gaia Collaboration et al. (2023a): Gaia DR3: Stellar multiplicity – a teaser for the hidden treasure;

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    Gaia Collaboration et al. (2023b): Gaia DR3: The extragalactic content;

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    Gaia Collaboration et al. (2023h): Gaia DR3: Chemical cartography of the Milky Way;

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    Gaia Collaboration et al. (2023c): Gaia DR3: The golden sample of astrophysical parameters;

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    Gaia Collaboration et al. (2023i): Gaia DR3: Exploring and mapping the diffuse interstellar bands at 862 nm;

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    Holl et al. (2023a): Gaia DR3: Scan-angle dependent signals and spurious periods.

This on-line documentation has been indexed at ADS and BibTeX entries for citing individual chapters or the full documentation package as a whole can be retrieved from there.

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