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Mon, 12/07/2020 - 20:55

Does anyone know how to access Gaia DR2 or EDR3 time series data for an individual star via a GUI interface?

Internet searches have so far not helped me. 

Roy

clkotnik
Affiliation
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
Mon, 12/07/2020 - 21:43
VStar Gaia Plugin

VStar supports a pluging (described here https://www.aavso.org/sites/default/files/vstar-plugins/vstar-plugins-d…) that will display the light curve photometry for the subset Gaia sources that Gaia classifies as variable and supplies epoch photometry.  From my reading of the summary of EDR3 I do not believe any addtional data have been release over DR2.

best regards

Cliff

Mon, 12/07/2020 - 22:17
VStar Gaia Plugin

Thanks Cliff,

I've got the plugin and will have a good look.

So far, trying to add data to a VStar light curve from Gaia DR2 (via the plugin) yields the response (for a few different variables) "No observations for the specified period".

Roy

clkotnik
Affiliation
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
Tue, 12/08/2020 - 14:13
Gais DR2 phot_variable_flag=“VARIABLE”.

Did you verify that you are looking in the Gaia archive for DR2, not DR3?  Is the phot_variable_flag set to "VARIABLE"?

If so, please share the Gaia IDs you are searching.

 

Cliff

Mon, 11/07/2022 - 15:48
Hello Roy,

 

since the…

Hello Roy,

 

since the release of DR3 photometry in June, the individual photometry measurements are available on https://gaia.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/singlesource.html

This webpage works very well and is very quick in its responses.

Geert Hoogeveen