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Transient astronomy with the Gaia satellite

Author(s) -

Simon Hodgkin,

Ł. Wyrzykowski,

N. Blagorodnova,

S. E. Koposov

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

philosophical transactions of the royal society a mathematical physical and engineering sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.074

H-Index - 169

eISSN - 1471-2962

pISSN - 1364-503X

DOI - 10.1098/rsta.2012.0239

Subject(s) - gravitational microlensing , supernova , physics , astronomy , astrometry , sky , transient (computer programming) , satellite , astrophysics , stars , computer science , operating system

Gaia is a cornerstone European Space Agency astrometry space mission and a successor to the Hipparcos mission. Gaia will observe the whole sky for 5 years, providing a serendipitous opportunity for the discovery of large numbers of transient and anomalous events, e.g. supernovae, novae and microlensing events, gamma-ray burst afterglows, fallback supernovae, as well as theoretical or unexpected phenomena. In this paper, we discuss our preparations to use Gaia to search for transients at optical wavelengths, and briefly describe the early detection, classification and prompt publication of anomalous sources.

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