The MONS Star Trackers
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The MONS satellite will have two Star Trackers to sense the spacecraft attitude, and we plan to use them as scientific instruments to perform high-precision photometry of thousands of stars. We briefly describe the current plans for the Star Trackers and their expected capabilities.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0003249,
title = {The MONS Star Trackers},
author = {Timothy R. Bedding and Hans Kjeldsen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0003249},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, LaTeX, 4 Postscript figures. To appear in Proceedings of the Third MONS Workshop: Science Preparation and Target Selection, edited by T.C.V.S. Teixeira and T.R. Bedding (Aarhus: Aarhus Universitet)