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The paper develops a method for detecting optical binary stars based on the use of astrometric catalogs in combination with machine learning (ML) methods. A computational experiment was carried out on the example of the HIPPARCOS mission…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-08 Mikhail V. Sazhin , Valerian Sementsov , Sergey Sorokin , Dan Lubarskiy , Alexander Raikov

We discuss several results made possible by accurate SDSS astrometric measurements in a large sky area, with emphasis on asteroids and stellar proper motions obtained by comparing POSS and SDSS. SDSS has observed over 200,000 moving objects…

The stable environment of space makes HST an excellent astrometric tool. Its diffraction-limited resolution allows it to distinguish and measure positions and fluxes for stars all the way to the center of most globular clusters. Apart from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-14 Andrea Bellini , Roeland P. van der Marel , Jay Anderson

We present a revised catalog of 2106 Galactic stars, selected without kinematic bias, and with available radial velocities, distance estimates, and metal abundances in the range 0.0 <= [Fe/H] <= -4.0. This update of the Beers and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. C. Beers , M. Chiba , Y. Yoshii , I. Platais , R. B. Hanson , B. Fuchs , S. Rossi

We present a Catalog of high proper motion (HPM) stars detected in the foreground of central parts of the Magellanic Clouds. The Catalog contains 2161 objects in the 4.5 square degree area towards the LMC, and 892 HPM stars in the 2.4…

With the aim of paving the road for future accurate astrometry with MICADO at the European-ELT, we performed an astrometric study using two different but complementary approaches to investigate two critical components that contribute to the…

In a previous paper, we applied the Gaia DR2 catalog to improve the astrometric accuracy of about 1.7 billion objects in Pan-STARRS1 Data Release 2 (PS1 DR2). We report here on further improvements made by utilizing Gaia EDR3 and correcting…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-02 Richard L. White , Stephen H. Lubow , Bernie Shiao

The body of photometric and astrometric data on stars in the Galaxy has been growing very fast in recent years (Hipparcos/Tycho, OGLE-3, 2-Mass, DENIS, UCAC2, SDSS, RAVE, Pan Starrs, Hermes, ...) and in two years ESA will launch the Gaia…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-16 James Binney

We describe the target selection algorithm for the low latitude disk portion of the LAMOST Pilot Survey, which aims to test systems in preparation for the LAMOST spectroscopic survey. We use the PPMXL (Roeser et al. 2010) astrometric…

To perform precise and accurate photometric catalogue cross-matches -- assigning counterparts between two separate datasets -- we need to describe all possible sources of uncertainty in object position. With ever-increasing time baselines…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-23 Tom J. Wilson

One of the main bottleneck in assessing the accuracy of Mars orbit is the unknown value of the asteroids in the Main Asteroid Belt. Nowadays a modeling with 343 asteroids as point masses is used, with the relative masses fitted to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-16 Vincenzo Mariani , Agnès Fienga , Zachary Murray , Mickaël Gastineau , Jacques Laskar

Accurate astrometry is crucial for determining orbits of near-Earth-asteroids (NEAs) and therefore better tracking them. This paper reports on a demonstration of 10 milliarcsecond-level astrometric precision on a dozen NEAs using the Pomona…

Two motions in the galactic plane have been detected and characterized, based on the determination of a common systematic component in Hipparcos catalogue proper motions. The procedure is based only on positions, proper motions and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carlos Abad , Katherine Vieira

We use multi-epoch near-infrared observations from the VISTA survey of the Magellanic Cloud system (VMC) to measure the proper motion of stars of the LMC, in one tile of 1.5 deg^2 centred at (alpha, delta) = (05:59:23.136, -66:20:28.68) and…

Accelerations of both the solar system barycenter (SSB) and stars in the Milky Way cause a systematic observational effect on the stellar proper motions, which was first studied in the early 1990s and developed by J. Kovalevsky (aberration…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Jia-Cheng Liu , Yi Xie , Zi Zhu

High-precision photometric standard stars play a key role in enabling accurate photometric calibration and advancing various fields of astronomy. However, due to limitations in calibration methods and the limited availability and underuse…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-12 Kai Xiao , Yang Huang , Haibo Yuan , Bowen Huang , Dongwei Fan , Timothy C. Beers , Zhirui Li , Henggeng Han , Qiqian Zhang , Tao Wang , Mingyang Ma , Yuanchang Wang , Shuai Xu , Lin Yang , Jifeng Liu

Astrometry plays a crucial role in understanding the structure, dynamics, and evolution of celestial objects by providing precise measurements of their positions and motions. We propose a new approach to wide-field, relative astrometry,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-25 Ryou Ohsawa , Daisuke Kawata , Takafumi Kamizuka , Yoshiyuki Yamada , Wolfgang Löffler , Michael Biermann

The aim of our paper is to make high-precision positional stellar catalogs by compiling large astrophysical data bulk and large astrometrical surveys. The data reliability and uniqueness is the primary request. The common precision of 1 arc…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-01 Nuriya T. Ashimbaeva

The cross-identification of sources in separate catalogs is one of the most basic tasks in observational astronomy. It is, however, surprisingly difficult and generally ill-defined. Recently Budav\'ari & Szalay (2008) formulated the problem…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Gyöngyi Kerekes , Tamás Budavári , István Csabai , Andrew J. Connolly , Alexander S. Szalay

Absolute proper motions, their corresponding errors and membership probabilities of 501 stars in the intermediate-age open cluster NGC2548 region are determined from MAMA measurements of 10 photographic plates. The plates have the maximum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. Y. Wu , K. P. Tian , L. Balaguer-Nunez , C. Jordi , J. L. Zhao , J. Guibert