The Variability Processing and Analysis of the Gaia mission

L. Eyer; D.W. Evans; N. Mowlavi; A. Lanzafame; J. Cuypers; J. De Ridder; L. Sarro; G. Clementini; L. Guy; B. Holl; D. Ordonez; K. Nienartowicz; I. Lecoeur-Taibi

doi:10.1051/eas/1567012

Issue		EAS Publications Series Volume 67-68, 2014 The Milky Way Unravelled by Gaia: GREAT Science from the Gaia Data Releases


Page(s)		75 - 78
Section		The Physics and Science Promise of Gaia
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/eas/1567012
Published online		17 July 2015

The Milky Way Unravelled by Gaia: GREAT Science from the Gaia Data Releases
N.A. Walton, F. Figueras, L. Balaguer-Núñez and C. Soubiran (eds)
EAS Publications Series, 67–68 (2014) 75-78

The Variability Processing and Analysis of the Gaia mission

L. Eyer¹, D.W. Evans², N. Mowlavi¹, A. Lanzafame³, J. Cuypers⁴, J. De Ridder⁵, L. Sarro⁶, G. Clementini⁷, L. Guy¹, B. Holl¹, D. Ordonez¹, K. Nienartowicz¹ and I. Lecoeur-Taibi¹

¹ Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva, CH 1290 Versoix, Switzerland
² Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, CB3 0HA, UK
³ Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Catania, via S. Sofia 78, Catania, Italy
⁴ Royal Observatory of Belgium, Ringlaan 3, Brussels, Belgium
⁵ Instituut voor Sterrenkunde, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
⁶ Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial, UNED, Juan del Rosal, 16, 28040 Madrid, Spain
⁷ INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, via Ranzani 1, 40127 Bologna, Italy

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Abstract

We present the variability processing and analysis that is foreseen for the Gaia mission within Coordination Unit 7 (CU7) of the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC). A top level description of the tasks is given.