Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-10-29
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted to ApJ. Scope broadened. Includes discussion on DIVA nad GAIA. Numerical results unchanged
Scientific paper
10.1086/340657
Three planned astrometry survey satellites, FAME, DIVA, and GAIA, all aim at observing magnitude-limited samples. We argue that substantial additional scientific opportunities are within the reach of these mission if they devote a modest fraction of their catalogs to selected targets that are fainter than their magnitude limits. We show that the addition of ~10^6 faint (R>15) targets to the 40 10^6 object FAME catalog can improve the precision of the reference frame by a factor 2.5, to 7 micro-as/yr, increase Galactocentric distance at which halo rotation can be precisely (2 km/s) measured by a factor 4, to 25 kpc, and increase the number of late M dwarfs, L dwarfs, and white dwarfs with good parallaxes by an order of magnitude. In most cases, the candidate quasars, horizontal branch stars, and dim dwarfs that should be observed to achieve these aims are not yet known. We present various methods to identify candidates from these classes, and assess the efficiencies of these methods. The analysis presented here can be applied to DIVA with modest modifications. Application to GAIA should be deferred until the characteristics of potential targets are better constrained.
Gould Andrew
Olling Rob
Salim Samir
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