Hipparcos, the New Reduction of the Raw Data

2007
ISBN: 978-1-4020-6341-1
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, 449 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 887 g

Reihe: Astrophysics and Space Science Library

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leeuwen, Floor van

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astrophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astronomische Beobachtung: Observatorien, Instrumente, Methoden
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Daten / Datenbanken Datenkompression, Dokumentaustauschformate
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Astrophysik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Datenanalyse, Datenverarbeitung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

to the Hipparcos Mission.- The Hipparcos Mission.- Hipparcos Astrometry.- Exploring the Hipparcos Astrometric Data.- Individual, Single Stars.- The Astrometric Data for Composite Images and Orbital Binaries.- Groups of Single Stars.- Kinematics of the Solar Neighbourhood.- A Description of the Contents and Peculiarities of the Hipparcos Photometric Data.- The Photometric Data.- Hipparcos Attitude Modelling.- A Free-Floating Rigid Body in Space.- The Torques on Hipparcos As Observed Over the Mission.- Fully-Dynamic Attitude Fitting.- Summary of Selected Spacecraft and Payload Calibration Results.- The Mission Timeline.- Payload Calibrations.- Spacecraft-Parameter Calibrations.- The Next Generation.- Gaia.