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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES
Volume 371, Issue 1992, Pages -Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0239
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Gaia; transients; science alerts; supernovae; astrometry; microlensing
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- STFC [ST/J000647/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/J000647/1, ST/H00243X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- UK Space Agency [ST/K000756/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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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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