The Gaia-ESO Survey: Calibration strategy

Pancino, E.; Lardo, C.; Altavilla, G.; Marinoni, S.; Ragaini, S.; Cocozza, G.; Bellazzini, M.; Sabbi, E.; Zoccali, M.; Donati, P.; Heiter, U.; Koposov, S. E.; Blomme, R.; Morel, T.; Símon-Díaz, S.; Lobel, A.; Soubiran, C.; Montalban, J.; Valentini, M.; Casey, A. R.; Blanco-Cuaresma, S.; Jofré, P.; Worley, C. C.; Magrini, L.; Hourihane, A.; François, P.; Feltzing, S.; Gilmore, G.; Randich, S.; Asplund, M.; Bonifacio, P.; Drew, J. E.; Jeffries, R. D.; Micela, G.; Vallenari, A.; Alfaro, E. J.; Allende Prieto, C.; Babusiaux, C.; Bensby, T.; Bragaglia, A.; Flaccomio, E.; Hambly, N.; Korn, A. J.; Lanzafame, A. C.; Smiljanic, R.; Van Eck, S.; Walton, N. A.; Bayo, A.; Carraro, G.; Costado, M. T.; Damiani, F.; Edvardsson, B.; Franciosini, E.; Frasca, A.; Lewis, J.; Monaco, L.; Morbidelli, L.; Prisinzano, L.; Sacco, G. G.; Sbordone, L.; Sousa, S. G.; Zaggia, S.; Koch, A.

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The Gaia_ESO Survey: double, triple and quadruple-line spectroscopic binary candidates (2017)
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Jeffries. (2017). The Gaia_ESO Survey: double, triple and quadruple-line spectroscopic binary candidates. Astronomy and Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201730442

Context. The Gaia-ESO Survey (GES) is a large spectroscopic survey that provides a unique opportunity to study the distribution of spectroscopic multiple systems among different populations of the Galaxy. Aims. Our aim is to detect binarity/multiplic... Read More about The Gaia_ESO Survey: double, triple and quadruple-line spectroscopic binary candidates.

The Gaia-ESO Survey and CSI 2264: Substructures, disks, and sequential star formation in the young open cluster NGC 2264 (2017)
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Jeffries. (2017). The Gaia-ESO Survey and CSI 2264: Substructures, disks, and sequential star formation in the young open cluster NGC 2264. Astronomy & Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731103

Context. Reconstructing the structure and history of young clusters is pivotal to understanding the mechanisms and timescales of early stellar evolution and planet formation. Recent studies suggest that star clusters often exhibit a hierarchical stru... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey and CSI 2264: Substructures, disks, and sequential star formation in the young open cluster NGC 2264.

Searching for new young stars in the northern hemisphere: The Pisces Moving Group (2017)
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Binks, A., Jeffries, R., & Ward, J. (2018). Searching for new young stars in the northern hemisphere: The Pisces Moving Group. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473(2), 2465-2485. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2252

Using the kinematically unbiased technique described in Binks, Jeffries & Maxted (2015), we present optical spectra for a further 122 rapidly-rotating (rotation periods <6 days), X-ray active FGK stars, selected from the SuperWASP survey. We identify...

Ages and Age Spreads in Young Stellar Clusters (2017)
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Jeffries, R. (2017). Ages and Age Spreads in Young Stellar Clusters. arXiv,

I review progress towards understanding the time-scales of star and cluster formation and of the absolute ages of young stars. I focus in particular on the areas in which Francesco Palla made highly significant contributions - interpretation of the H... Read More about Ages and Age Spreads in Young Stellar Clusters.

Gaia-ESO Survey: Global properties of clusters Trumpler 14 and 16 in the Carina nebula (2017)
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Damiani, F., Klutsch, A., Jeffries, R., Randich, S., Prisinzano, L., Maíz Apellániz, J., …Zaggia, S. (2017). Gaia-ESO Survey: Global properties of clusters Trumpler 14 and 16 in the Carina nebula. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 603, Article A81. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201629020

Aims. We present the first extensive spectroscopic study of the global population in star clusters Trumpler 16, Trumpler 14, and Collinder 232 in the Carina nebula, using data from the Gaia-ESO Survey, down to solar-mass stars. Methods. In addition t... Read More about Gaia-ESO Survey: Global properties of clusters Trumpler 14 and 16 in the Carina nebula.

Multiple kinematical populations in Vela OB2 from Gaia DR1 data (2017)
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Damiani, F., Prisinzano, L., Jeffries, R., Sacco, G., Randich, S., & Micela, G. (2017). Multiple kinematical populations in Vela OB2 from Gaia DR1 data. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 602, L1 - L1. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201730867

Context. Recent results using radial-velocity measurements from the Gaia-ESO Survey have led to the discovery of multiple kinematic populations across the Vela OB2 association. We present here a proper-motion study of the same region.
Aims. Our aim... Read More about Multiple kinematical populations in Vela OB2 from Gaia DR1 data.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: dynamical models of flattened, rotating globular clusters (2017)
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Jeffreson, S., Sanders, J., Evans, N., Williams, A., Gilmore, G., Bayo, A., …Zaggia, S. (2017). The Gaia-ESO Survey: dynamical models of flattened, rotating globular clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 469(4), 4740 -4762. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1152

We present a family of self-consistent axisymmetric rotating globular cluster models which are fitted to spectroscopic data for NGC 362, NGC 1851, NGC 2808, NGC 4372, NGC 5927 and NGC 6752 to provide constraints on their physical and kinematic proper... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: dynamical models of flattened, rotating globular clusters.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: Structural and dynamical properties of the young cluster Chamaeleon I (2017)
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Sacco, G., Spina, L., Randich, S., Palla, F., Parker, R., Jeffries, R., …Zaggia, S. (2017). The Gaia-ESO Survey: Structural and dynamical properties of the young cluster Chamaeleon I. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 601, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201629698

Investigating the physical mechanisms driving the dynamical evolution of young star clusters is fundamental to our understanding of the star formation process and the properties of the Galactic field stars. The young (~2 Myr) and partially embedded c... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: Structural and dynamical properties of the young cluster Chamaeleon I.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: the present-day radial metallicity distribution of the Galactic disc probed by pre-main-sequence clusters ??? (2017)
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Jeffries. (2017). The Gaia-ESO Survey: the present-day radial metallicity distribution of the Galactic disc probed by pre-main-sequence clusters ???. Astronomy & Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201630078

Context. The radial metallicity distribution in the Galactic thin disc represents a crucial constraint for modelling disc formation and evolution. Open star clusters allow us to derive both the radial metallicity distribution and its evolution over t... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: the present-day radial metallicity distribution of the Galactic disc probed by pre-main-sequence clusters ???.

A WISE-based search for debris discs amongst M-dwarfs in nearby, young, moving groups (2017)
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Binks, A. S., & Jeffries, R. (2017). A WISE-based search for debris discs amongst M-dwarfs in nearby, young, moving groups. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 496(1), 579-593. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx838

We present a search for debris discs amongst M-dwarf members of nearby, young (5–150 Myr) moving groups (MGs) using infrared (IR) photometry, primarily from the Wide Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). A catalogue of 100 MG M dwarfs that have suitable W... Read More about A WISE-based search for debris discs amongst M-dwarfs in nearby, young, moving groups.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: the inner disk, intermediate-age open cluster Trumpler 23 (2017)
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Jeffries. (2017). The Gaia-ESO Survey: the inner disk, intermediate-age open cluster Trumpler 23. Astronomy and Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201629345

Context. Trumpler 23 is a moderately populated, intermediate-age open cluster within the solar circle at a RGC ~ 6 kpc. It is in a crowded field very close to the Galactic plane and the color–magnitude diagram shows significant field contamination an... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: the inner disk, intermediate-age open cluster Trumpler 23.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: Calibration strategy (2017)
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Pancino, E., Lardo, C., Altavilla, G., Marinoni, S., Ragaini, S., Cocozza, G., …Koch, A. (2017). The Gaia-ESO Survey: Calibration strategy. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 598, A5. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201629450

The Gaia-ESO survey (GES) is now in its fifth and last year of observations and has produced tens of thousands of high-quality spectra of stars in all Milky Way components. This paper presents the strategy behind the selection of astrophysical calibr... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: Calibration strategy.

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