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The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey: Implementation, data products, open cluster survey, science, and legacy (2022)
Journal Article

Context. In the last 15 years different ground-based spectroscopic surveys have been started (and completed) with the general aim of delivering stellar parameters and elemental abundances for large samples of Galactic stars, complementing Gaia astrom... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey: Implementation, data products, open cluster survey, science, and legacy.

The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey: Motivation, implementation, GIRAFFE data processing, analysis, and final data products star (2022)
Journal Article

Context. The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey is an ambitious project designed to obtain astrophysical parameters and elemental abundances for 100 000 stars, including large representative samples of the stellar populations in the Galaxy, and a w... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey: Motivation, implementation, GIRAFFE data processing, analysis, and final data products star.

Low mass young stars in the Milky Way unveiled by DBSCAN and Gaia EDR3. Mapping the star forming regions within 1.5 Kpc (2022)
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With an unprecedented astrometric and photometric data precision, Gaia EDR3 gives us, for the first time, the opportunity to systematically detect and map in the optical bands, the low mass populations of the star forming regions (SFRs) in the Milky... Read More about Low mass young stars in the Milky Way unveiled by DBSCAN and Gaia EDR3. Mapping the star forming regions within 1.5 Kpc.

The Gaia-ESO survey: Constraining evolutionary models and ages for young low mass stars with measurements of lithium depletion and rotation (2022)
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A growing disquiet has emerged in recent years that standard stellar models are at odds with observations of the colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) and lithium depletion patterns of pre-main sequence stars in clusters. In this work we select 1246 high... Read More about The Gaia-ESO survey: Constraining evolutionary models and ages for young low mass stars with measurements of lithium depletion and rotation.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: Chemical tagging in the thin disk. Open clusters blindly recovered in the elemental abundance space (2022)
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Context. The chemical makeup of a star provides the fossil information of the environment where it formed. Under this premise, it should be possible to use chemical abundances to tag stars that formed within the same stellar association. This idea -... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: Chemical tagging in the thin disk. Open clusters blindly recovered in the elemental abundance space.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: Membership probabilities for stars in 63 open and 7 globular clusters from 3D kinematics (2021)
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Spectroscopy from the final internal data release of the Gaia-ESO Survey (GES) has been combined with Gaia EDR3 to assign membership probabilities to targets observed towards 63 Galactic open clusters and 7 globular clusters. The membership probabili... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: Membership probabilities for stars in 63 open and 7 globular clusters from 3D kinematics.

The Gaia-ESO survey: Mixing processes in low-mass stars traced by lithium abundance in cluster and field stars (2021)
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We aim to constrain the mixing processes in low-mass stars by investigating the behaviour of the Li surface abundance after the main sequence. We take advantage of the data from the sixth internal data release of Gaia-ESO, idr6, and from the Gaia Ear... Read More about The Gaia-ESO survey: Mixing processes in low-mass stars traced by lithium abundance in cluster and field stars.

The Gaia-ESO survey: the non-universality of the age-chemical-clocks-metallicity relations in the Galactic disc (2020)
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Context. In the era of large spectroscopic surveys, massive databases of high-quality spectra coupled with the products of the Gaia satellite provide tools to outline a new picture of our Galaxy. In this framework, an important piece of information i... Read More about The Gaia-ESO survey: the non-universality of the age-chemical-clocks-metallicity relations in the Galactic disc.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: a new approach to chemically characterising young open clusters - I. Stellar parameters, and iron-peak, nd proton-capture elements (2020)
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Context. Open clusters are recognised as excellent tracers of Galactic thin-disc properties. At variance with intermediate-age and old open clusters, for which a significant number of studies is now available, clusters younger than ?150 Myr have been... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: a new approach to chemically characterising young open clusters - I. Stellar parameters, and iron-peak, nd proton-capture elements.

The Gaia-ESO survey: Calibrating the relationship between Age and the [C/N] abundance ratio with open clusters (2019)
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Context: In the era of large high-resolution spectroscopic surveys such as Gaia-ESO and APOGEE, high-quality spectra can contribute to our understanding of the Galactic chemical evolution by providing abundances of elements that belong to the diffe... Read More about The Gaia-ESO survey: Calibrating the relationship between Age and the [C/N] abundance ratio with open clusters.

Expanding associations in the Vela-Puppis region - 3D structure and kinematics of the young population (2019)
Journal Article

Context. The Vela-Puppis region is known to host the Vela OB2 association as well as several young clusters featuring OB and pre-main-sequence stars. Several spatial and kinematic subgroups have been identified in recent years. Aims. By grouping star... Read More about Expanding associations in the Vela-Puppis region - 3D structure and kinematics of the young population.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: Age spread in the star forming region NGC 6530 from the HR diagram and gravity indicators (2019)
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Context. In very young clusters, stellar age distribution is empirical proof of the duration of star cluster formation and thus it gives indications of the physical mechanisms involved in the star formation process. Determining the amount of interste... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: Age spread in the star forming region NGC 6530 from the HR diagram and gravity indicators.

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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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.

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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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 ???.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: Lithium depletion in the Gamma Velorum cluster and inflated radii in low-mass pre-main-sequence stars (2016)
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We show that non-magnetic models for the evolution of pre-main-sequence (PMS) stars cannot simultaneously describe the colour–magnitude diagram (CMD) and the pattern of lithium depletion seen in the cluster of young, low-mass stars surrounding ?2 Vel... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: Lithium depletion in the Gamma Velorum cluster and inflated radii in low-mass pre-main-sequence stars.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: empirical determination of the precision of stellar radial velocities and projected rotation velocities (2015)
Journal Article

Context. The Gaia-ESO Survey (GES) is a large public spectroscopic survey at the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope. Aims. A key aim is to provide precise radial velocities (RVs) and projected equatorial velocities (vsini) for repr... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: empirical determination of the precision of stellar radial velocities and projected rotation velocities.

A kinematically unbiased search for nearby young stars in the Northern hemisphere selected using SuperWASP rotation periods (2015)
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We present a kinematically-unbiased search to identify young, nearby low-mass members of kinematic moving groups (MGs). Objects with both rotation periods shorter than 5 days in the SuperWASP All-Sky Survey and X-ray counterparts in the ROSAT All-Sky... Read More about A kinematically unbiased search for nearby young stars in the Northern hemisphere selected using SuperWASP rotation periods.

TheGaia-ESO Survey: Chromospheric emission, accretion properties, and rotation inγVelorum and Chamaeleon I (2015)
Journal Article

Aims. One of the goals of the Gaia-ESO Survey (GES), which is conducted with FLAMES at the VLT, is the census and the characterization of the low-mass members of very young clusters and associations. We conduct a comparative study of the main propert... Read More about TheGaia-ESO Survey: Chromospheric emission, accretion properties, and rotation inγVelorum and Chamaeleon I.

The Gaia-ESO survey: Discovery of a spatially extended low-mass population in the Vela OB2 association (2015)
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The nearby (distance ~ 350–400 pc), rich Vela OB2 association, includes ?2 Velorum, one of the most massive binaries in the solar neighbourhood and an excellent laboratory for investigating the formation and early evolution of young clusters. Recent... Read More about The Gaia-ESO survey: Discovery of a spatially extended low-mass population in the Vela OB2 association.

Gaia-ESO Survey: Empirical classification of VLT/Giraffe stellar spectra in the wavelength range 6440–6810 Å in theγVelorum cluster, and calibration of spectral indices (2014)
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We present a study of spectral diagnostics available from optical spectra with R = 17 000 obtained with the VLT/Giraffe HR15n setup, using observations from the Gaia-ESO Survey, on the γ Vel young cluster, with the purpose of classifying these stars... Read More about Gaia-ESO Survey: Empirical classification of VLT/Giraffe stellar spectra in the wavelength range 6440–6810 Å in theγVelorum cluster, and calibration of spectral indices.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: radial metallicity gradients and age-metallicity relation of stars in the Milky Way disk (2014)
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We study the relationship between age, metallicity, and α-enhancement of FGK stars in the Galactic disk. The results are based upon the analysis of high-resolution UVES spectra from the Gaia-ESO large stellar survey. We explore the limitations of the... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: radial metallicity gradients and age-metallicity relation of stars in the Milky Way disk.

AN ANOMALOUS EXTINCTION LAW IN THE Cep OB3b YOUNG CLUSTER: EVIDENCE FOR DUST PROCESSING DURING GAS DISPERSAL (2014)
Journal Article

We determine the extinction law through Cep OB3b, a young cluster of 3000 stars undergoing gas dispersal. The extinction is measured toward 76 background K giants identified with MMT/Hectospec spectra. Color excess ratios were determined toward each... Read More about AN ANOMALOUS EXTINCTION LAW IN THE Cep OB3b YOUNG CLUSTER: EVIDENCE FOR DUST PROCESSING DURING GAS DISPERSAL.

On the relationship between the size and surface coverage of starspots on magnetically active low-mass stars (2013)
Journal Article

We present a model that predicts the light curve amplitude distribution for an ensemble of low-mass magnetically active stars, under the assumptions that stellar spin axes are randomly orientated and that cool starspots have a characteristic scale le... Read More about On the relationship between the size and surface coverage of starspots on magnetically active low-mass stars.

Angular momentum evolution of cool stars: Toward a synthesis of observations and theory before and after the ZAMS (2013)
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The coexistence of fast and slowly rotating cool stars in ZAMS clusters – forming distinct sequences in the color vs. rotation period plane – is providing clues to differences in their pre main-sequence angular momentum evolution. This Cool Stars 17... Read More about Angular momentum evolution of cool stars: Toward a synthesis of observations and theory before and after the ZAMS.

The ROSAT Wide Field Camera all-sky survey of extreme-ultraviolet sources. I - The Bright Source Catalogue (1993)
Journal Article

The first all-sky survey for cosmic sources of extreme-ultraviolet radiation has been carried out with the UK Wide Field Camera on ROSAT. A first reduction of the survey data has yielded a catalogue of 383 relatively bright EUV sources, forming the W... Read More about The ROSAT Wide Field Camera all-sky survey of extreme-ultraviolet sources. I - The Bright Source Catalogue.

OB Associations
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OB associations are low-density groups of young stars that are dispersing from their birth environment into the Galactic field. They are important for understanding the star formation process, early stellar evolution, the properties and distribution... Read More about OB Associations.