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Paper: The Flux Calibration of Gaia
Volume: 503, Calibrating Large Surveys and Future Facilities
Page: 243
Authors: Pancino, E.
Abstract: The Gaia mission is described, along with its scientific potential and its updated science perfomances. Although it is often described as a self-calibrated mission, Gaia still needs to tie part of its measurements to external scales (or to convert them in physical units). A detailed decription of the Gaia spectro-photometric standard stars survey is provided, along with a short description of the Gaia calibration model. The model requires a grid of approximately 200 stars, calibrated to a few percent with respect to Vega, and covering different spectral types.
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