Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-gvvz8 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-12T08:47:21.870Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Astrographic Catalogue

A Gold Mine for Proper Motions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

D.H.P. Jones
D.H.P. Jones*
Affiliation:
Royal Greenwich Observatory, Cambridge, UK

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

The most reliable method of cross-wavelength identification is the coincidence of accurately determined positions, both referred to the same reference frame. But objects move with time and the more accurate their positions, the more important their proper motions are.

Type
Part 8. Catalogues
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 179: New Horizons from Multi-Wavelength Sky Surveys , 1998 , pp. 406 - 408
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1998 

References

de Vegt, Chr. and Morrison, L.V. 1995 WGM 3 International Catalogue Projects, Highlights of Astronomy, 10, pp. 683–695.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Geffert, M., Bonnefond, P., Maintz, G. and Guibert, J. 1996 The astrometric accuracy of “Carte du Ciel” plates and proper motions in the field of the open cluster NGC 1647 Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. 118, 277.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Röser, S. and Høg, E. 1993 Tycho Reference Frame Catalogue (TRC): A Catalogue of Positions and Proper Motions of one Million Stars Workshop on Databases for Galactic Structure, pp. 137–143.Google Scholar
Urban, S.E., and Corbin, T.E. 1996a New reductions of the Astrographic Catalogue; Conventional plate adjustment of the Cape Zone Astron. Astrophys. 305, 989.Google Scholar
Urban, S.E., Martin, J.C., Jackson, E.S. and Corbin, T. E. 1996b New Reductions of the Astrographic Catalogue; Plate adjustments of the Algiers, Oxford I and II, and Vatican Zones Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. 118, 163.CrossRefGoogle Scholar