Ground-Based Survey Facilities: New Opportunities for Astrometry

Details Ground-Based Survey Facilities: New Opportunities for Astrometry Ground-Based Survey Facilities: New Opportunities for Astrometry

Oct 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005aspc..338...63w&link_type=abstract

Astrometry in the Age of the Next Generation of Large Telescopes, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 338, Proceedings of a meeting held

Physics

Optics

1

Scientific paper

Three types of facilities offer new opportunities for high accuracy astrometry. In the planning stages are extremely large telescopes (aperture >20 meters) with adaptive optics, which will enable relative astrometry of faint sources with an accuracy of ˜0.1 milliarcsec. Existing 4m class telescopes are already being used for large scale surveys with well understood errors and publicly available databases. Several dedicated survey telescopes are under construction, and the design of the most ambitious survey telescope---the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope---is advancing. Some of the outstanding questions that must be addressed in order to realize the full potential of the LSST and other survey facilities for astrometry are described briefly.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

No associations

Rating

Ground-Based Survey Facilities: New Opportunities for Astrometry does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with Ground-Based Survey Facilities: New Opportunities for Astrometry, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Ground-Based Survey Facilities: New Opportunities for Astrometry will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-1620680