Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-10-30
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
to appear in Observed HR Diagrams and Stellar Evolution, ASP Conf Ser, eds T Lejeune and J Fernandes
Scientific paper
The GAIA Observatory, ESA's Cornerstone 6 mission, addresses the origin and evolution of our Galaxy, and a host of other scientific challenges. GAIA will provide unprecedented positional and radial velocity measurements with the accuracies needed to produce a stereoscopic and kinematic census of about one billion stars in our Galaxy and throughout the Local Group, about one per cent of the Galactic stellar population. Combined with astrophysical information for each star, provided by on-board multi-colour photometry, these data will have the precision and depth necessary to address the three key questions which underlie the GAIA science case: When did the stars in the Milky Way form? When and how was the Milky Way assembled? What is the distribution of dark matter in our Galaxy?
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