Gaia mission and its transients

Gaia mission and its transients

Lukasz Wyrzykowski, Krzysztof Rybicki, Katarzyna Kruszyńska, Mariusz Gromadzki, Paweł Zieliński and Zuzanna Kostrzewa-Rutkowska

Gaia has already been revolutionising the astronomy with its first data release and this is still just the beginning. In this poster, we present the highlights of the Gaia Science Alerts programme, which is searching for transients and temporary astrophysical events. In particular, we concentrate on an interesting cataclysmic variables, tidal disruption event candidates and microlensing events. We also present the OPTICON-supported network of small telescopes for Gaia alerts follow-up.

Proceedings of the Polish Astronomical Society, vol. 7, 364-367 (2018)

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