Getting-started-with-Gaia

Bookmarks to resources about Gaia+

• Gaia Home
• Gaia Archive
• Datamodel: DR1 | DR2
• Papers with DR: DR1 | DR2

Data Access using TAP

Learn ADQL

• An ADQL cookbook to accompany Gaia DR1
• ADQL cheatsheet
• A collection of snippets
• Cross-matching to Gaia DR2

TAP Clients

• A simple TAP interface for python with a great tutorial
• astroquery has a TAP module and gaia module
• pyvo implements TAP service as one of many ways to access VO data services.
• TOPCAT is a full-fledged GUI application for interactive exploration of tabular data with access to many astronomical databases (including Gaia) built-in and much more.

Cross-matches

• Gaia archive already provides cross-match lookup tables for many surveys as well as the original catalogs of each survey, so one can just JOIN on appropriate ID columns.
• Note that some external tables are under gaiadr1 schema while some under gaiadr2.
• Gaia DR2 + Kepler/K2 cross-matches by Megan Bedell repo

Data manipulation tools

• astropy.coordinates for all kinds of coordinate transformations
• gaia_tools: Tools for working with the @ESAGaia data and related data sets
• pyia: a Python package for working with data from the Gaia mission

Parallax to distance

Dynamics

• amuse: Astrophysical Multipurpose Software Environment. repo
• gala: Galactic and gravitational dynamics in Python. repo
• galpy: Galactic Dynamics in python. repo

Stellar libraries/isochrones

• Morgan Fouesneu has written small python clients to get isochrone models easily from their websites: ezmist | ezpadova | ezdart
• isochrones provides common interface to isochrone models. Under active development and documentation incomplete at the moment.

Other surveys