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Using the Hubble Space Telescope to Relate the HIPPARCOS and Extragalactic Reference Frames

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

P. D. Hemenway  and
R. L. Duncombe
P. D. Hemenway
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy and Center for Space Research, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712
R. L. Duncombe
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy and Center for Space Research, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712

Abstract

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The HIPPARCOS satellite will produce positions, motions and parallaxes of celestial objects with previously unattained accuracy. This HIPPARCOS Instrumental System, however, will have an unknown solid body rotation with respect to an inertial reference frame. One aspect of our program of astrometric observations with the Hubble Space Telescope is to determine the rotation of the HIPPARCOS reference frame with respect to an extragalactic reference system.

Type
Astrometry
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 129: The Impact of VLBI on Astrophysics and Geophysics , 1988 , pp. 335 - 336
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1988