Gaia Data Release 4 Papers

An overview is given below of the papers that have been, or will be released with Gaia's data release 4 (Gaia DR4). Most of them will be compiled into a  "Gaia Data Release 4 Special Issue" planned for publication in A&A. The links to the papers will be provided once available.

Summary papers

These papers provide an overview of the Gaia mission and the contents of Gaia Data Release 4 and summarise specifics of the survey. The Gaia Data Release 4 paper will also discuss the limitations of the Gaia DR4 data and provides recommendations for responsible use.
 

Description of the Gaia mission (spacecraft, instruments, survey and measurement principles)
Gaia Collaboration, Prusti, T., et al. (2016)

Gaia Data Release 4: Summary of the contents and survey properties
Gaia Collaboration, et al. (arXiv) (ADS)

Gaia DR4 pre-release result

This paper describes a result obtained from the validation of preliminary Gaia Data Release 4 data.

Discovery of a dormant 33 solar-mass black hole in pre-release Gaia astrometry (data table)
Gaia Collaboration, P. Panuzzo, et al.(arXiv) (ADS)
(Additional data table)

Gaia DR4 pre-release Processing papers

These papers give technical details on the processing and calibration of the raw data and the path taken to arrive at Gaia Data Release 4. The processing papers are complementary to the Gaia Data Release Documentation.

Gaia data processing. SEAPipe: The source environment analysis pipeline
D. Harrision, et al. (arXiv) (ADS)

Gaia DR4 Processing papers

These papers give technical details on the processing and calibration of the raw data and the path taken to arrive at Gaia Data Release 4. The processing papers are complementary to the Gaia Data Release Documentation.

More details will be provided in due time.

Performance verification papers

These papers give an overview of the science potential of Gaia Data Release 4. Without going into in-depth analysis, they give a short introduction to selected science topics that can be addressed with this release. The purpose of these papers is to demonstrate the scientific quality of the data through examples. These performance verification papers are not exhaustive or definitive treatments of the topics.

More details will be provided in due time.

Gaia DR4 Data Release Documentation

An extensive documentation will be available describing the processing done by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium to produce the Gaia Data Release 4. The data release documentation and processing papers are complementary.

Access the data release documentation for Gaia DR4

Access the PDF version of the data release documentation for Gaia DR4

Overview of documentation available for Gaia

How to cite the Gaia Data Release 4 documentation