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Some Gaia DR2 data exploration

Ophiuchus cloud

Explore the Ophiuchus cloud notebookin 3D with GAIA second data release and plot.ly

Based on Gaia archive ADQL query

SELECT * FROM gaiadr2.gaia_source  WHERE CONTAINS(POINT('ICRS',gaiadr2.gaia_source.ra,gaiadr2.gaia_source.dec),CIRCLE('ICRS',247.025,-24.5417,2))=1  AND
gaiadr2.gaia_source.parallax>1

See also

• Pre Gaia era :
  • Section 6 "Open clusters, groups and associations" in "Astronomical Applictions of Astrometry" by Michael Perryman, 2009
  • THE SCORPIUS OB2 COMPLEX :
    • http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/300491/pdf
    • http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~emamajek/scocen.pdf
• DR2 :
  • http://sci.esa.int/gaia/60131-gaia-s-view-of-dark-interstellar-clouds/
  • https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/image-of-the-week Milky way map within 3000 parsec of Earth
• wikipedia :
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rho_Ophiuchi_cloud_complex
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_kinematics#OB_associations