The Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer -- Astrometry for the New Millennium
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
FAME is designed to perform an all-sky, astrometric survey with unprecedented accuracy. It will create a rigid astrometric catalog of 4x10^7 stars with 5 < m_V < 15. For bright stars, 5 < m_V < 9, FAME will determine positions and parallaxes accurate to < 50 microarcseconds, with proper motion errors < 50 microarcseconds/year. For fainter stars, 9 < m_V < 15, FAME will determine positions and parallaxes accurate to < 500 microarcseconds, with proper motion errors < 500 microarcseconds/year. It will also collect photometric data on these 4 x 10^7 stars in four Sloan DSS colors.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9907213,
title = {The Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer -- Astrometry for the New Millennium},
author = {Scott D. Horner and Marvin E. Germain and Thomas P. Greene and Fred H. Harris and Mark S. Johnson and Kenneth J. Johnston and David G. Monet and Marc A. Murison and James D. Phillips and Robert D. Reasenberg and P. Kenneth Seidelmann and Sean E. Urban and Richard H. Vassar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9907213},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
6 pages, 4 figures, to appear in "Working on the Fringe"