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Hipparcos, the New Reduction of the Raw Data [With DVD]

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Hardcover | 27 September 2007

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Thepublication oftheHipparcos andTycho Catalogues in 1997 transformed astrometry, and as a consequence astronomers' perception of astrometry. What had before often been regarded as a somewhat quaint specialty of limited re- vance to modern astrophysics, was suddenly seen to produce a wealth of data of immediate practical use. The ready availability of many thousand precise trigonometric stellar distances and the access to an accurate and dense - tical reference frame have changed the way astronomers think about certain problems and plan their experiments. Inevitably, the exploitation of so much new data not only solved some old problems, tidied up several confused areas and sharpened many observational constraints, but it also generated new qu- tions about established theory - and about the data themselves. The author of this book has taken a radical approach to answer some of these questions: a complete re-examination of the satellite data and the models used to represent them, in particular the attitude modelling. Eventually this resulted in the new and very signi?cantly improved Hipparcos reduction described in this book. This remarkable achievement was made possible by a combination of many factors, including time and the exponential growth of computing power, but mainly an incredible amount of detailed, tedious and ingenious work by the author and the resulting insight into what really went on with the satellite in its unhappy orbit. Dr.

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"For astronomers, 'Hipparcos - The New Reduction of the Raw Data' promises to open up a new chapter in the study of the age, size and properties of stars, helping them to tackle fundamental questions about the origins of the universe with greater precision than before. ... In some cases, its contents are up to five times more accurate than the previous guide, offering scholars what in astronomical terms is the closest they can get to pinpoint accuracy." (John Rowlands, www.physorg.com, September, 2007)

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Solar System including The Sun & Planets

List of Figures	p. xiii
List of Tables	p. xix
Acronyms	p. xxiii
Preface	p. xxvii
Introduction	p. xxix
Introduction to the Hipparcos mission
The Hipparcos Mission	p. 3
Overture	p. 3
The mission	p. 17
The published data	p. 25
Concepts of the new reduction	p. 31
Hipparcos Astrometry	p. 39
From positions and velocities to astrometric data	p. 39
The Hipparcos astrometric data	p. 46
Reconstruction of the along-scan rotation phase	p. 56
Grid distortions	p. 58
Astrometric-parameter solutions	p. 63
Exploring the Hipparcos Astrometric Data
Individual, Single Stars	p. 73
Precisions and accuracies	p. 73
Correlations	p. 80
Parallaxes	p. 85
Proper motions	p. 95
Disturbed solutions	p. 100
Comparison with the ICRS	p. 109
The Astrometric Data for Composite Images and Orbital Binaries	p. 113
The modulated signal for small-separation double stars	p. 114
Astrometric parameters for double stars	p. 126
Double stars with two catalogue entries	p. 131
Variable-brightness of one component	p. 132
Multiple systems	p. 135
Orbital motions	p. 137
Groups of Single Stars	p. 143
Solving for common parameters	p. 143
Application to star clusters	p. 145
Calibrating luminosities	p. 163
Conclusions	p. 176
Kinematics of the Solar Neighbourhood	p. 177
Systematic motions	p. 177
The distribution of nearby stars	p. 186
A Description of the Contents and Peculiarities of the Hipparcos Photometric Data
The Photometric Data	p. 199
The Hipparcos photometric pass bands	p. 199
Formal errors and variability indicators	p. 204
Variability analysis	p. 208
Newly discovered variables	p. 214
Hipparcos Attitude Modelling
A Free-Floating Rigid Body in Space	p. 219
Dynamics of a rigid body in space	p. 219
The internal torques and inertia tensor	p. 223
External torques acting on the satellite	p. 226
Non-rigidity	p. 236
The Torques on Hipparcos as Observed Over the Mission	p. 239
Relation between attitude and torque reconstruction	p. 239
Solar radiation torques	p. 241
Magnetic torques and the remaining torque variations	p. 249
Predictability of the environmental torques	p. 251
Fully-Dynamic Attitude Fitting	p. 255
Outline of the method	p. 255
The integration engines	p. 257
Implementing the gyro data	p. 260
Implementing the star mapper data	p. 263
Implementing the IDT transit data	p. 269
Conclusions	p. 282
Summary of Selected Spacecraft and Payload Calibration Results
The Mission Timeline	p. 287
Trend analysis and anomalies	p. 287
Data coverage and detector response	p. 298
Payload Calibrations	p. 299
The optical transfer function	p. 301
Large-scale geometric-distortion calibration	p. 304
Photometric calibrations	p. 311
Spacecraft-Parameter Calibrations	p. 329
The on-board clock	p. 329
Gyro characteristics	p. 335
Thruster firings and the Centre of Gravity	p. 340
The Next Generation
GAIA	p. 349
Introduction	p. 349
The spacecraft and payload	p. 349
The mission plan	p. 352
The astrometric data reduction	p. 354
The photometric data reduction	p. 355
The spectroscopic data reduction	p. 360
Data-analysis challenges	p. 363
Organization of the data processing and analysis	p. 365
Appendices	p. 369
Transformations for heliotropic and Tait-Bryant angles	p. 369
Spline functions	p. 373
Linear Least Squares and Householder Orthogonal Transformations	p. 377
Chain solutions, running solutions, and common parameters	p. 381
Orbit parameters for binary stars	p. 385
Reference orbital parameters	p. 393
The data disk	p. 403
The colour figures	p. 403
The science data	p. 406
Payload calibration data	p. 410
Spacecraft calibration data	p. 416
Bibliography	p. 419
Subject index	p. 439
Object index	p. 443
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