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Tycho Astrometry from 30 Months of Satellite Mission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

E. Høg
E. Høg*
Affiliation:
Copenhagen University Observatory – NBIfAFG østervoldgd. 3 DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark

Abstract

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The Hipparcos satellite's star mapper gives photon counts in two spectral channels simultaneously, close to Johnson B and V. The transit times and the signal amplitudes for each star across two groups of four slits are derived and used for astrometry and photometry, respectively, and this constitutes the Tycho project. The present paper describes results of Tycho astrometric data processing, leading from the transit times to the astrometric parameters of the Tycho stars.

Some 30 months of Tycho observations, i.e. about 80 percent of the Hipparcos-Tycho mission, have been used to produce a working catalogue of Tycho positions, proper motions and parallaxes of a million stars. The external errors of this preliminary catalogue have been determined by comparison of 98 000 stars common with a preliminary, but much more accurate Hipparcos catalogue. External systematic errors of positions and annual proper motions are less than 0.5 milliarcsecond (mas) and the accidental errors per star are about 30 mas rms at V = 10.5 mag, the median magnitude of the catalogue. It is concluded that a satisfactory accuracy has been achieved.

Type
1. Current Advances in Astrometry
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 166: Astronomical and Astrophysical Objectives of Sub-Milliarcsecond Optical Astrometry , 1995 , pp. 61 - 68
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1995 

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