Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-07-22
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
3 pages, 2 Figures. Proceedings of the IAU Symposium 261 : Relativity in Fundamental Astronomy. 27 April - 1 May 2009, Virgini
Scientific paper
According to current plans, the SIM/NASA mission will be launched just after the end of operations for the Gaia/ESA mission. This is a new situation which enables long term astrometric projects that could not be achieved by either mission alone. Using the well-known perspective acceleration effect on astrometric measurements, the true heliocentric radial velocity of a nearby star can be measured with great precision if the time baseline of the astrometric measurements is long enough. Since white dwarfs are compact objects, the gravitational redshift can be quite large (40-80 km/s), and is the predominant source of any shift in wavelength. The mismatch of the true radial velocity with the spectroscopic shift thus leads to a direct measure of the Mass--Radius relation for such objects. Using available catalog information about the known nearby white dwarfs, we estimate how many masses/gravitational redshift measurements can be obtained with an accuracy better than 2%. Nearby white dwarfs are relatively faint objects (10 < V < 15), which can be easily observed by both missions. We also briefly discuss how the presence of a long period planet can mask the astrometric signal of perspective acceleration.
Anglada-Escude Guillem
Debes John H.
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