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Placing the Guide Star Catalog on the Hipparcos System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

U. Bastian
Affiliation:
Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Mönchhofstr. 12-14, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
B. Bucciarelli
Affiliation:
STScI, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA On leave from Torino Observatory, Torino, Italy
J. Hayes
Affiliation:
STScI, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
B. M. Lasker
Affiliation:
STScI, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
J. E. Morrison
Affiliation:
STScI, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
S. Röser
Affiliation:
Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Mönchhofstr. 12-14, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
R. L. Smart
Affiliation:
STScI, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
C. R. Sturch
Affiliation:
Computer Sciences Corp., Astronomy Programs, STScI, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
L. G. Taff
Affiliation:
STScI, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA

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The HIPPARCOS Catalogue, linked to the system of extra-galactic radio sources, will soon be the reference system in optical astronomy. The Guide Star Catalog (GSC; Lasker et al. AJ 99, 2019ff, 1990), with its 18 million objects, already serves most astronomers for the planning of small field observations, optical identifications, and the reduction of CCD images. The utility of the GSC will be greatly enhanced if it is transformed to the HIPPARCOS system and its remaining systematic errors minimized. To do so we will use the forthcoming TYCHO Reference Catalogue (Röser & Høg, in Workshop on Databases for Galactic Structure, eds. Davis Philip, Hauck & Upgren, pp. 137, 1993). The reductions will use a combination of the mask and sub-plate methods (Taff, AJ 98, 1912, 1989; Taff, Lattanzi & Bucciarelli ApJ 361, 667, 1990), the co-location method (Bucciarelli, Lattanzi & Taff, ApJ Suppl. 84, 91, 1993), the new “fixed number of stars filter” of Röser, Bastian & Kuzmin (in press in the proceedings of IAU 148, 1994), and the infinitely overlapping circles (IOC) version of the latter (Taff, Bucciarelli & Lattanzi, ApJ 358, 359, 1990; Bucciarelli, Taff & Lattanzi, J. Stat. Comp. Sim. 48, 29, 1993). We present in the table below test results using the PPM as the reference catalog (typically only 4 sub-plates per plate; 25 stars for the Square Filter; 16 stars per circle for the IOC method). The first line presents the estimates for σαcosδ and σδ, both in arcsec, relative the to PPM Suppl (Röser, Bastian & Kuzmin, A&A Suppl. 105, 301, 1994); the second line contains them based on plate overlaps (all for the −30° declination zone). When comparing the numbers note that in the first line the GSC and PPM Suppl (0.″12) errors are contributing whereas in the second line the GSC errors are present twice (in the rms sense).

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