Improving distance estimates to nearby bright stars: Combining astrometric data from Hipparcos, Nano-JASMINE and Gaia
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Summary, in English
Starting in 2013, Gaia will deliver highly accurate astrometric data, which eventually will supersede most other stellar catalogues in accuracy and completeness. It is, however, limited to observations from magnitude 6 to 20 and will therefore not include the brightest stars. Nano-JASMINE, an ultrasmall Japanese astrometry satellite, will observe these bright stars, but with much lower accuracy. Hence, the Hipparcos catalogue from 1997 will likely remain the main source of accurate distances to bright nearby stars. We are investigating how this might be improved by optimally combining data from all three missions through a joint astrometric solution. This would take advantage of the unique features of each mission: the historic bright-star measurements of Hipparcos, the updated bright-star observations of Nano-JASMINE, and the very accurate reference frame of Gaia. The long temporal baseline between the missions provides additional benefits for the determination of proper motions and binary detection, which indirectly improve the parallax determination further. We present a quantitative analysis of the expected gains based on simulated data for all three missions.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2013
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
414-417
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Advancing the Physics of Cosmic Distances, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 289, pp. 414-417
Volym
289
Dokumenttyp
Konferensbidrag
Förlag
International Astronomical Union
Ämne
- Physical Sciences
- Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Nyckelord
- astrometry
- catalogs
- methods: data analysis
- methods: statistical
- reference systems
Conference name
International Astronomical Union, Symposium 289: Advancing the Physics of Cosmic Distances
Conference date
0001-01-02
Status
Published