README

The Gaia Focused Product Release (FPR) bulk download repository allows downloading of the Gaia data for offline analyses in which the full content of one or more tables in the Gaia Archive is needed. All tables are provided as enhanced csv files. These files are regular csv files with an extra header with metadata added on top in which each line is preceded by the hashtag comment character. If users require classical csv files, they should strip out the leading comment lines using, for instance, a plain-text editor of their choice.

The Gaia FPR data (released on 10 October 2023) can be queried from the Gaia Archive web user interface (https://gea.esac.esa.int/archive/).