Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Galaxy Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2012-03-12
Acta Astronomica (2012) 62, 1
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Galaxy Astrophysics
Scientific paper
We present a catalog of over 6.2 million stars with measured proper motions. All these stars are observed in the direction of the Magellanic Clouds within the brightness range 12 < I < 19 mag. Based on these proper motions about 440 000 Galactic foreground stars can be selected. Because the proper motions are based on a few hundred epochs collected during eight years, their statistical uncertainties are below 0.5 mas/yr for stars brighter than I = 18.5 mag. The parallaxes are derived with uncertainties down to 1.6 mas. For above 13 000 objects parallaxes are derived with significance above 3\sigma, which allows selecting around 270 white dwarfs (WDs). The search for common proper motion binaries among stars presented was performed resulting in over 500 candidate systems. The most interesting ones are candidate halo main sequence star-WD and WD-WD systems. The application of the catalog to empirically bound the Cepheid instability strip is also discussed.
Kubiak Mateo M. M.
Pietrzynski Grzegorz
Poleski Radoslaw
Soszynski Igor
Szymanski Michal K.
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