English
Related papers

Related papers: Bright Star Astrometry with URAT

200 papers

Having been operational at Kitt Peak for more than a year, the prototype of the Hungarian Automated Telescope (HAT-1) has been used for all-sky variability search of the northern hemisphere. The small autonomous observatory is recording…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-10 Gaspar A. Bakos , Jozsef Lazar , Istvan Papp , Pal Sari , Elizabeth M. Green

The UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Large Area Survey (LAS) has the necessary combination of filters (Y, J, H and K), depth (Y <~ 20.2) and area coverage (~4000 deg^2) to detect several redshift z >~ 6.4 quasars. The Third Data…

In a continuation of our systematic search for high proper motion stars in the Digitized Sky Survey, we have completed the analysis of northern sky fields at galactic latitudes above 25 degrees. With the help of our SUPERBLINK software, a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sebastien Lepine , Michael M. Shara , R. Michael Rich

This is the second in a series of papers presenting observations and results for a sample of 76 ultra-steep-spectrum (USS) radio sources in the southern hemisphere designed to find galaxies at high redshift. Here we focus on the optical…

BRITE-Constellation (where BRITE stands for BRIght Target Explorer) is an international nanosatellite mission to monitor photometrically, in two colours, the brightness and temperature variations of stars generally brighter than mag(V) ~ 4,…

We present 474 new proper motion stellar systems in the southern sky having no previously known components, with 0.40" yr^-1 > mu >= 0.18" yr^-1 between declinations -47 deg and 00 deg. In this second paper utilizing the U.S. Naval…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 C. T. Finch , N. Zacharias , M. R. Boyd , T. J. Henry , N. C. Hambly

This paper describes the first part of the photometric data from the 9x9 deg ASAS cameras monitoring the whole southern hemisphere in V-band. Data acquisition and reduction pipeline is described and preliminary list of variable stars is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 G. Pojmanski

This paper contains the fifth part of the Catalog of Variable Stars created from the V-band photometric data collected by 9x9 deg camera of the All Sky Automated Survey. Preliminary list of variable stars found in the fields located between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Pojmanski , B. Pilecki , D. Szczygiel

In this paper we present the fourth part of the photometric data from the 9x9 deg ASAS camera monitoring the whole southern hemisphere in V-band. Preliminary list (based on observations obtained since January 2001) of variable stars located…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Pojmanski , Gracjan Maciejewski

Results of the first two years of observations using the All Sky Automated Survey prototype camera are presented. More than 140 000 stars in 50 Selected Fields covering 300 sq. degrees were monitored each clear night in the I-band resulting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-15 Pojmanski , G

Radio wavelength astrometry of stars and other objects has a long and productive history. The use of that technique to determine whether stars have planets around them would cover a nearly unique part of the parameter space for detection of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-22 Bryan J. Butler , Brenda C. Matthews

The results of 4,747 intensified CCD observations of double stars, made with the 26-inch refractor of the U.S. Naval Observatory, are presented. Each observation of a system represents a combination of over two thousand short-exposure…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-18 Brian D. Mason , William I. Hartkopf

We present high-precision JHK photometry with the 3.8m UK Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) of 83 standard stars, 28 from the widely used preliminary list known as the "UKIRT Faint Standards" (Casali & Hawarden, 1992), referred to here as the…

We have used the Very Large Array, linked with the Pie Town Very Long Baseline Array antenna, to determine astrometric positions of 19 radio stars in the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF). The positions of these stars were…

We present an independent validation and comprehensive re-calibration of S-PLUS Ultra-Short Survey (USS) DR1 12-band photometry using about 30,000--70,000 standard stars from the BEst STar (BEST) database. We identify spatial variation of…

Space astrometry is capable of sub-microarcsecond measurements of star positions. A hundred visits over several years could yield relative astrometric precision of ~0.1 uas, below the astrometric signature (0.3 uas) of a Sun-Earth system at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Joseph Catanzarite , Nicholas Law , Michael Shao

The 22 GHz H_2O masers in the circumstellar envelope of the Mira variable star U Her have been observed with MERLIN using a phase referencing technique to determine accurate astrometric positions. The positions were compared with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 W. H. T. Vlemmings , H. J. van Langevelde , P. J. Diamond

The Hungarian-made Automated Telescope network (HATnet) is an ongoing project to detect transiting extra-solar planets using small aperture (11 cm diameter), robotic telescopes. In this paper we present the results from using image…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. D. Hartman , G. Bakos , K. Z. Stanek , R. W. Noyes

The third US Naval Observatory (USNO) CCD Astrograph Catalog, UCAC3 was released at the IAU General Assembly on 2009 August 10. It is a highly accurate, all-sky astrometric catalog of about 100 million stars in the R = 8 to 16 magnitude…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Norbert Zacharias

The results of 3,989 intensified CCD observations of double stars, made with the 26-inch refractor of the U.S. Naval Observatory, are presented. Each observation of a system represents a combination of over two thousand short-exposure…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 Brian D. Mason , William I. Hartkopf , Sean E. Urban , Jordan D. Josties