The Gaia-ESO Survey (GES) is a Large Public Spectroscopic Survey carried out with FLAMES on the ESO/VLT and whose final catalogue has been released to the community through the ESO Archive last Spring. GES has delivered precise radial velocities, stellar parameters, and abundances for more than 100,000 stars in the Milky Way, including members of more than 60 open star clusters. I will briefly...
With its 2 degrees field-of-view and its nearly 1000 fibers feeding a dual-beam spectrograph that covers the wavelength range 366-959nm at R~5000 or two shorter ranges at R~20 000, WEAVE, installed at the WHT in La Palma, will be the first large galactic survey with a target selection from Gaia DR3. It will complement Gaia with accurate radial velocities and metallicities for faint stars...
I will speak about the full characterization of the young stellar objects (YSOs) with VLT/X-Shooter that were originally selected based on their consistent kinematic properties with either a stellar system or a stellar association. I will discuss the essential role that Gaia DR2 played in selecting our candidates and how the catalog further contributed to our final analysis (with flags such as...