Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1996-09-20
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
12 pages LaTeX incl. tables, no figures, accepted by PASP, scheduled for Dec.96
Scientific paper
10.1086/133847
Sets of short exposure, guided CCD frames are used to measure the noise added by the atmosphere to differential astrometric observations. Large nightly variations that are correlated with the seeing have been found in the data obtained over 2 years at the KPNO and CTIO 0.9-meter telescopes. The rms noise added by the atmosphere, after a linear transformation of the raw $x,y$ data, is found to be 3 to 7 mas, normalized to 100 seconds exposure time and a field of view of 20 arcminutes near the zenith. An additional nearly constant noise (base-level) of 8.5 mas = 0.012 pixel is found for the KPNO and 6.0 mas = 0.015 pixel for the CTIO telescope. This implies that a ground-based, all sky, astrometric survey from guided CCD frames is more likely limited by the base-level noise than by the atmosphere and could reach an accuracy better than 10 mas under good seeing conditions.
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