Gaia Data Release 2: Mapping the Milky Way disc kinematics
- Submitting institution
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University College London
- Unit of assessment
- 9 - Physics
- Output identifier
- 9924
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1051/0004-6361/201832865
- Title of journal
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Article number
- ARTN A11
- First page
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- Volume
- 616
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 0004-6361
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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451
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- Citation count
- 139
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
- This paper is the first with sufficient 6-dimensional position and velocity information to reconstruct the motion of the stars in the Milky Way disk, and is hence a landmark paper for Gaia and studies of galaxies in general. Mark Cropper's role was for 17 years to lead (with ESA) and provide oversight of the industrial development of the spectrometer instrument used for this work. He also took responsibility for the scientific design and oversight of the production of most of the scientific algorithms in its data processing.
- Non-English
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- English abstract
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