Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Mar 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998a%26a...331.1119p&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.331, p.1119-1129 (1998)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Astrometry, Catalogs, Reference Systems, Methods: Data Analysis
Scientific paper
We describe the use of the Lick Northern Proper Motion (NPM) program and its southern-sky complement, the Yale/San Juan Southern Proper Motion (SPM) program, to determine the Hipparcos proper motion link to the extragalactic reference system defined by galaxies. In total ~ 9,100 Hipparcos stars were chosen for the NPM link solution and ~ 4,100 for the SPM solution. The typical accuracy of the NPM absolute proper motions is 5 mas yr(-1) . For the SPM proper motions it varies from 2 to 4 mas yr(-1) . The link solutions indicate a presence of magnitude equation in both the NPM and SPM. In the case of the NPM three different approaches (i.e., introducing a magnitude cutoff, additional linear magnitude terms, and including a fictitious zone of avoidance) were examined to alleviate the magnitude equation problem. The SPM proper motions show a notable correlation between the postfit residuals and the size of the magnitude equation correction applied. It is quite likely that galaxies have a magnitude equation different from that affecting the stellar images. We note an improvement in the spin solution with re-calibrated galaxy magnitudes and, subsequently, changed magnitude-equation corrections for the galaxies. Based on observations made with the ESA Hipparcos satellite
Girard Terrence M.
Hanson Robert B.
Jones Burton F.
Klemola Arnold R.
Kovalevsky Jean
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