Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Sep 2009
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Publications of the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade, vol. 86, pp. 133-138
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
In 1995, Commission 19 (Earth Rotation) of IAU established the Working Group on Earth Rotation in the Hipparcos Reference Frame (WG ERHRF) to collect the optical observations of latitude and universal time variations, made during 1899.7 -- 1992.0 in line with the Earth orientation programmes (to derive Earth Orientation Parameters -- EOP). About 4.4 million observations of latitude/universal time variations made at 33 observatories were collected.
Nowadays, it is customary to correct the positions and proper motions of stars of Hipparcos Catalogue using ground-based observations of the same stars. In this PhD thesis I use the latitude observations made with several types of classical astrometric instruments: visual and floating zenith-telescopes (ZT and FZT), visual zenith tube (VZT) and photographic zenith tube (PZT), i. e. a total of 26 different instruments located at 19 observatories all over the world. I received the data from Dr. Vondrák (head of WG ERHRF).
The task was to improve the Hipparcos proper motions in declination of the observed stars. The original method was developed. It consists of removing from the instantaneous observed latitude all known effects (polar motion and some local and instrumental errors). The corrected latitudes are then used to calculate the corrections of the Hipparcos proper motions in declination by using the Least Squares Method (LSM) with the linear model. The newly obtained values of proper motions in declination are substantially more precise than those of the Hipparcos Catalogue. It is because the time interval covered by the latitude observations (tens of years) is much longer than the Hipparcos one (less than four years), and because of the great number of ground-based observations made during this interval. The calculated results were compared with ARIHIP and EOC-2 data, and I found a good agreement. The main result of the thesis is a catalogue of proper motions in declination of 2347 Hipparcos stars. Here, some results and main steps of the method are presented.
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