Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 1980
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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Aerospace Sciences Meeting, 18th, Pasadena, Calif., Jan. 14-16, 1980, 22 p.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Celestial Sphere, Earth Observations (From Space), Infrared Astronomy Satellite, Satellite Observation, Correlation Coefficients, Cross Correlation, Histograms, Mathematical Models, Sky Surveys (Astronomy)
Scientific paper
The coverage of the celestial sphere or the surface of the earth with a narrow-field instrument onboard a satellite can be described by a set of swaths on the sphere. A transect is a curve on this sphere constructed to sample the coverage. At each point on the transect the number of times that the field-of-view of the instrument has passed over the point is recorded. This information is conveniently displayed as an integer-valued histogram over the length of the transect. The effectiveness of the transect method for a particular observing plan and the best placement of the transects depends upon the structure of the set of observations. Survey missions are usually characterized by a somewhat parallel alignment of the instrument swaths. Using autocorrelation and cross-correlation functions among the histograms the structure of a survey has been analyzed into two components, and each is illustrated by a simple mathematical model. The complex, all-sky survey to be performed by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) is synthesized in some detail utilizing the objectives and constraints of that mission. It is seen that this survey possesses the components predicted by the simple models and this information is useful in characterizing the properties of the IRAS survey and the placement of the transects as a function of celestial latitude and certain structural properties of the coverage.
Ling Hong Y.
Lundy S. A.
McLaughlin William I.
Stroberg M. W.
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