Impact of HIPPARCOS Data on Astrometric Reduction of Solar System Bodies

Details Impact of HIPPARCOS Data on Astrometric Reduction of Solar System Bodies Impact of HIPPARCOS Data on Astrometric Reduction of Solar System Bodies

Aug 1997

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Proceedings of the ESA Symposium `Hipparcos - Venice '97', 13-16 May, Venice, Italy, ESA SP-402 (July 1997), p. 157-160

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We investigated the improvement of photographic astrometric observations of solar system bodies by use of Hipparcos Catalogue stars, PPM Catalogue stars, and advanced plate reduction procedures. In the plate reductions, we first computed apparent, topocentric coordinates of the date for the reference stars, taking into account effects of refraction, aberration, precession, nutation, etc. In this way, the 6 plate constants, of our linear reduction model, need account for only the instrumental effects of scale, orientation, and zero point. This method is very accurate even if few reference stars are available on the plates. We tested our reduction methods with photographic plates of Jupiter's Galilean satellites, taken with the 26-inch refractor of the U.S. Naval Observatory. The position of Jupiter on the plates was determined from measurements of the Galilean satellites, combined with ephemerides accurate to better than 10 milliarcseconds (mas). The resulting observations were compared to DE403. Our preliminary results gave an average (O-C) of (0.014 +/- 0.013) arcsec in right ascension, (-0.005 +/- 0.014) arcsec in declination.

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