Context. Gaia Data Release 2 (Gaia DR2) contains results for 1693 million sources in the
magnitude range 3 to 21 based on observations collected by the European Space Agency …

Context. Open clusters are convenient probes of the structure and history of the Galactic
disk. They are also fundamental to stellar evolution studies. The second Gaia data release …

Aims. The goal of this paper is to demonstrate the outstanding quality of the second data
release of the Gaia mission and its power for constraining many different aspects of the …

Context. The assembly history experienced by the Milky Way is currently being unveiled
thanks to the data provided by the Gaia mission. It is likely that the globular cluster system of …

Abstract Context. Gaia Data Release 2 provides high-precision astrometry and three-band
photometry for about 1.3 billion sources over the full sky. The precision, accuracy, and …

Context. Gaia Data Release 2 provides high-precision astrometry and three-band
photometry for about 1.3 billion sources over the full sky. The precision, accuracy, and …

We update the capabilities of the software instrument Modules for Experiments in Stellar
Astrophysics (MESA) and enhance its ease of use and availability. Our new approach to …

BANYAN Σ is a new Bayesian algorithm to identify members of young stellar associations
within 150 pc of the Sun. It includes 27 young associations with ages in the range∼ 1–800 …

Aims. We describe the photometric content of the second data release of the Gaia project
(Gaia DR2) and its validation along with the quality of the data. Methods. The validation was …

We present an updated release of the BaSTI (a Bag of Stellar Tracks and Isochrones) stellar
model and isochrone library for a solar-scaled heavy element distribution. The main input …