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Dec 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008phst..133a4010t&link_type=abstract
Physica Scripta, Volume 133, Issue , pp. 014010 (2008).
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The Gaia program was kicked off at the beginning of 2006 and is now reaching a phase of construction and integration for a launch at the end of 2011, to reach the L2 point several months later. Apart from that industrial activity, the European astronomical community is actively preparing the data treatment and in particular how to extract the astrophysical parameter outputs from the use of the spectrographs on board the satellite. This work consists of the realization of algorithms to extract fundamental parameters of the detected source points with the help of an extensive grid of synthetic spectral libraries. The number of these estimated fundamental parameters and their accuracy depend on the ability of the algorithms to treat the spectra and to compare them with the computed ones, and also on the quality of the synthetic spectra themselves. Then, on the one hand a huge effort is underway to produce these extensive grids of one-dimensional (1D) local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) spectra of stars, galaxies, quasi-stellar objects and asteroids, and on the other hand, new physics is tested in the atmosphere model of stars to improve the theoretical libraries. An example of the questions we need to answer is: do we need 3D non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE) modelling? If yes, the libraries will then be improved by adding corrections checked on dedicated standard stars. Shall we be able to implement this new physics in a reasonable time? This is another challenge.
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