Reduction of micrometer cometary observations to the PPM star catalogue

Details Reduction of micrometer cometary observations to the PPM star catalogue Reduction of micrometer cometary observations to the PPM star catalogue

Dec 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997p%26ss...45.1653g&link_type=abstract

Planetary and Space Science, v. 45, p. 1653-1655.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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An adaptation of Bielicki's method of reduction of old cometary micrometer observations of the comet-minus-star type to the PPM star catalogue is presented. A fully automatic utility is described which reduces old positions of stars to the coordinates in the PPM star catalogue for comet-minus-star astrometric observations. The reduction clears observations from systematic errors in old catalogues and decreases the mean error of observations. That may have implications for orbit improvement. The utility predicts new positions of stars in the PPM catalogue as needed and can also restore observations which have been previously rejected due to a selection criterion. It helps to get all data in one, coherent reference frame with maximum possible precision when there are lots of old and new observations of the same object. As an illustration, results of application of the utility to observations of comets 122P/de Vico and 109P/Swift-Tuttle are presented.

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