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The astrometric instrument of Gaia: Principles

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

Compared with Hipparcos, Gaia will give an enormous improvement in accuracy, completeness and number of stars: about two orders of magnitude in accuracy, four orders in number, and a completeness limit that is 12 magnitudes fainter. How is all this possible? The answer is: by a combination of many factors, the most important being bigger and more efficient detectors, and bigger optics. The method of astrometric measurements by Gaia is described from first principles, and the fundamental limitations explained in terms of physics (diffraction and photon noise), geometry, temporal sampling and reference frames. Although Gaia is basically a self-calibrating instrument, things have to be stable enough over time scales that are long enough for the calibrations to be carried out, and the corresponding requirements are outlined. To achieve microarcsecond accuracy is technically extremely demanding, but feasible with a clever and careful design of the instrument.

Publiceringsår

2005

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

29-34

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volym

576

Dokumenttyp

Konferensbidrag

Förlag

European Space Agency

Ämne

  • Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

Nyckelord

  • Accuracy
  • Parallax
  • Gaia
  • ESA

Conference name

Symposium - The Three-Dimensional Universe with Gaia

Conference date

2004-10-04 - 2004-10-07

Conference place

Paris, France

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1609-042X
  • ISSN: 0379-6566