The Gaia mission not only leads to new discoveries in nearly all disciplines in astronomy and astrophysics but also offers a unique opportunity for testing the coherence of the parameters derived for various physical systems. Furthermore, these tests help to investigate the possible systematics left in the Gaia parallaxes.
In this talk we focus on the Galactic field RR Lyrae stars that are...
Thanks to the well known Period-Luminosity relation, Ultra Long Period (ULP) Cepheids, characterized by periods longer than about 80 days, are among the brightest primary indicators to calibrate the cosmic distance ladder, currently at the center of the debate on the Hubble constant tension. In principle, with the advent of next generation facilities, these bright pulsating variables will be...
The β Cephei pulsators are massive main-sequence stars presenting low radial-order oscillations. These latter bear a powerful signature of physical processes at the edge of the convective core and in the radiative envelope, as for e.g. convective overshooting, hydrodynamic or magnetic instabilities. Yet, it is not clear to what extent the seismic inferences describe accurately the structure of...
With an unprecedented astrometric and photometric data precision, Gaia EDR3 gives us the opportunity to systematically and homogeneously detect and map the low mass populations of the star forming regions (SFRs)/very young clusters in the Milky Way in the optical bands. We present a catalogue of the young stellar objects (YSOs) identified with Gaia EDR3 data in the solar neighbourhood (within...