Show & Tell: Gaia DR2

A summary of cool results and findings from recent papers, chosen from neat things I found on Twitter in the past month.

1. Show & Tell Gaia DR2 James R. A. Davenport NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, Western Washington University DIRAC Fellow, University of Washington jradavenport UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
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6. SO many papers to read Here’s just the “official” ones https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dr2-papers jradavenport jradavenport
7. The Gaia DR2 Color-Mag Diagram! https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09378 jradavenport
8. 100 pc sample https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09378 jradavenport
9. 100 pc sample BINARY STARS! https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09378 jradavenport
10. Open Globular Benchmark Clusters https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09378 jradavenport
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12. White Dwarf sequences https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09378 jradavenport
13. White Dwarf sequences Binaries! https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09378 jradavenport
14. From Adrian Price-Whelan A ~100Myr cluster
 25 kpc away (!) in LMC leading-edge gas stream jradavenport
15. https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.05849 White Dwarfs: Initial vs Final mass, testing cooling curves,
 inferring Star Formation History…? jradavenport
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17. M31 jradavenport
18. https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04079 M31 M33 Candidate members High quality members jradavenport
19. https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08277 Runaway stars from star forming region jradavenport
20. https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08023 PanSTARRS image Nearby microlensing jradavenport
21. https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.07581 Circle size: “impulse” future past Gl710 Passes within 10,700–17,400 AU 
 in 1.2Myr jradavenport
22. https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.03653 Known clusters/moving groups New structures! jradavenport
23. https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08726 New open clusters: tracing the spiral arms! jradavenport
24. https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.11339 New Milky Way streams! (some known, some new, some artifacts of Gaia systematics) jradavenport
25. Red Clump stars: Substructures from 
 streams… or arms?! From Adrian Price-Whelan jradavenport
26. https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.02588 Fermi sources: not DM jradavenport
27. https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.07359 Improved mass-models for lensed QSOs jradavenport
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29. Improved planet radii (via improved stellar radii) https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00231 Gap is still there! jradavenport
30. The Kepler field jradavenport
31. The Kepler field Superflare stars jradavenport
32. The Kepler field Rotating stars (30k) jradavenport
33. The Kepler field Exoplanet hosts (w/ rotation periods) Many are NOT single main-seq dwarfs jradavenport
34. Ideas?! gaia.lol We’re hosting a sprint: June 4-8 jradavenport • Gaia + ZTF (or PTF) • Gaia + Kepler/K2 • Gaia + SDSS • Globular cluster dynamics • Binary stars • Exoplanet hosts • “Planet 9” • asteroids/solar system bodies • Star formation history from CMD • …