Speckle interferometry of candidate stars for two space telescope programmes

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy

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Hipparcos Satellite, Hubble Space Telescope, Reference Stars, Speckle Interferometry, Astrometry, Autocorrelation, Deep Space, High Resolution

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This paper describes the preflight programs developed for two telescope missions, the U.S. Hubble Space Telescope and the European Hipparcos, in order to remove stars showing multiple nature from a set of proposed reference stars. It was found that, in a large unbiased sample of stars, 10 percent of stars at apparent magnitudes between 9 and 13 mag are resolved in the range 0.05-1.00 arcsec. The consequence is a significant increase in the difficulty of making observations with the space telescopes. In the case of Hubble telescope, this will add to the acquisition time of Guide stars by about 11 percent. In the case of Hipparcos, it will introduce small uncorrelated proper motion errors into a number of unidentified unresolved binary stars.

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