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Gaia Data Flow System (GDFS) Project: the UK's contribution to Gaia data processing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2007

N. A. Walton
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB24 5JE, UK email: [email protected]
M. Cropper
Affiliation:
MSSL, University College London, Dorking, Surrey, UK
G. Gilmore
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB24 5JE, UK
M. Irwin
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB24 5JE, UK
F. van Leeuwen
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB24 5JE, UK
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Abstract

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Gaia is an ESA cornerstone mission which will observe some billion stars in the galaxy enabling micro-arcsec astrometric catalogues to be constructed. In addition Gaia will produce high quality photometric and spectroscopic catalogues.

The data processing tasks are large and complex. A European consortium has been formed - the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC). This paper describes the form of the UK Gaia Data Flow System Project contribution to the DPAC.

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Contributed Papers
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2008