The Gaia sky: version 1.0
Anthony G.A. Brown (Sterrewacht Leiden, Leiden University)
TL;DR
This paper summarizes Gaia DR1 data, discusses its astrometric quality, clarifies misconceptions about systematic errors, highlights unexpected uses, and previews future Gaia data releases.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive overview of Gaia DR1, clarifies data quality issues, and discusses future Gaia data releases, aiding researchers in understanding and utilizing Gaia data effectively.
Findings
Gaia DR1 contains valuable astrometric data for the astronomical community.
There are misconceptions about the systematic errors in Gaia DR1 parallaxes.
Unexpected applications of Gaia DR1 data have emerged in the literature.
Abstract
In this contribution I provide a brief summary of the contents of Gaia DR1. This is followed by a discussion of studies in the literature that attempt to characterize the quality of the Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution parallaxes in Gaia DR1, and I point out a misconception about the handling of the known systematic errors in the Gaia DR1 parallaxes. I highlight some of the more unexpected uses of the Gaia DR1 data and close with a look ahead at the next Gaia data releases, with Gaia DR2 coming up in April 2018.
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