The Joint Milli-Arcsecond Pathfinder Survey (J-MAPS) Mission: Introduction and Science Goals

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May 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aas...21423904g&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #214, #239.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.742

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J-MAPS is a small, funded, space-based, all-sky visible wavelength astrometric and photometric survey mission for 0th through 14th V-band magnitude stars with a 2012 launch. The primary objective of the J-MAPS mission is the generation of an astrometric star catalog with better than 1 milliarcsecond positional accuracy and photometry to the 1 percent accuracy level or better for 1st to 12th mag stars. A 1-mas all-sky survey will have a significant impact on our current understanding of galactic and stellar astrophysics. J-MAPS will improve our understanding of the origins of nearby young stars, provide insight into the dynamics of star formation regions and associations, investigate the dynamics and membership of nearby open clusters, and discover the smallest brown dwarfs at distances up to 5 pc after a 2-year mission, and Jupiter-like planets out to 3 pc after 4 years. J-MAPS will provide critical milliarcsecond-level parallaxes of tens of millions of stars in the difficult 8-14th magnitude range, which when combined with stellar spectroscopy and relative radii determined from exoplanet transit surveys, allows a determination of stellar radii and exoplanet densities. In addition, the 20-year baseline between the groundbreaking Hipparcos mission and the J-MAPS mission allows a combination of the J-MAPS and Hipparcos catalogs to produce common proper motions on the order of 50-100 microarcseconds per year.

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