Observing the Natural Satellites of Solar System Bodies with Gaia

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Jan 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005esasp.576..313t&link_type=abstract

"Proceedings of the Gaia Symposium "The Three-Dimensional Universe with Gaia" (ESA SP-576). Held at the Observatoire de Paris-Me

Statistics

Gaia, Solar System Satellites, Instruments

Scientific paper

The simulation of the detection sequence and geometry of planetary satellites allows the statistics of the expected Gaia measurements to be explored. Given the remarkably low level of instrumental light scattering, Gaia will be able to detect faint objects at extremely small angular distances from the apparent disc of the main Solar System bodies. The position and brightness of the satellites of Mars, and of the inner satellites of Jupiter and Saturn, for example, will be measured. Outer satellites, whose visibility is not affected by the brightness of the main body, will be detected down to the cut-off magnitude of the Gaia instruments. The unprecedented accuracy of the astrometry will allow several dynamical issues concerning satellites to be addressed that are difficult - or impossible - to access through ground-based instruments.

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