Gaia Source Catalogue DR2 Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors

1. Gaia Collaboration

Published by

NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive

Abstract

The Gaia DR2 Source Catalogue contains positions and brightnesses for 1.693 billion stars, including distances and proper motions for more than 1.3 billion stars. For more details, see the Gaia documentation, particularly the Source Catalogue columns description.

Keywords

1. sky survey

See also HTML

https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/Missions/gaia.html

IVOA Identifier IVOID

ivo://irsa.ipac/Gaia/GaiaDR2

Access

IVOA Cone Search SCS

For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/SCS?table=gaia_dr2_source&

IVOA Table Access TAP

https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/TAP
Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).

Web browser access HTML

https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/Gator/nph-dd?catalog=gaia_dr2_source