The Flux Calibration of Gaia

Date Issued
2016
Author(s)
Abstract
The Gaia mission is described, along with its scientific potential and its updated science perfomances. Although it is often described as a self-calibrated mission, Gaia still needs to tie part of its measurements to external scales (or to convert them in physical units). A detailed decription of the Gaia spectro-photometric standard stars survey is provided, along with a short description of the Gaia calibration model. The model requires a grid of approximately 200 stars, calibrated to a few percent with respect to Vega, and covering different spectral types.
Coverage
Calibration and standardization of missions and large surveys in astronomy and astrophysics
All editors
Deustua, S.; Allam, S.; Tucker, D.; Smith, J. A.
Series
Volume
503
Start page
243
Conferenece
Calibration and standardization of missions and large surveys in astronomy and astrophysics
Conferenece place
Batavia, Illinois (USA)
Conferenece date
16-19 April, 2012
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Issn Identifier
1050-3390
Ads BibCode
2016ASPC..503..243P
Rights
open.access
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