gaiaunlimited

gaiaunlimited is a package for querying and constructing selection functions for the Gaia survey. It is developed by the GaiaUnlimited collaboration.

The documentation for gaiaunlimited is hosted on Read the docs.

The GaiaUnlimited project is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 101004110.

Features

• Query Gaia scanning laws for when a given sky position is scanned.
• Query Gaia survey selection functions for the probabilities that sources of given properties are included in the Gaia catalog.
• Query ready-made Gaia DR3 subsample selection functions for
  • the astrometry sample
  • the RVS sample
  • other subsets of the Gaia catalog

Acknowledgements

This work is part of the GaiaUnlimited project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 101004110.

Team members

Main contributors

Tristan Cantat-Gaudin (MPIA Heidelberg), Alfred Castro-Ginard (Leiden), Evgeny Kurbatov (IoA Cambridge), Shourya Khanna (INAF-Torino), Semyeong Oh (IoA Cambridge),

Members

Anthony Brown (Leiden, PI), Vasily Belokurov (IoA Cambridge), Andy Casey (Monash), Alex Wallace (Monash), Ron Drimmel (INAF-Torino), Alessandro Spgna (INAF-Torino), Richard Smart (INAF-Torino), Eloisa Poggio (INAF-Torino), Morgan Fouesneau (MPIA Heidelberg), David Hogg (NYU/ Flatiron/ MPIA Heidelberg), Adrian Price-Whelan (Flatiron), Hans-Walter Rix (MPIA Heidelberg), Elena Sellentin (Leiden), Douglas Boubert (Oxford), Andy Everall (IoA Cambridge),