Articulo
The astrometric lessons of Gaia-GBOT experiment
Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica
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Autor
Bouquillon, S
Méndez-Bussard, René Alejandro
Altmann, M
Institución
Resumen
To ensure the full capabilities of the Gaia’s measurements, a programme of daily observations with Earth-based telescopes of the satellite itself - called Ground Based Optical Tracking (GBOT) - was implemented since the beginning of the Gaia mission (for more details concerning GBOT operating see Altmann et al. 2014 and concerning GBOT software facilities see Bouquillon et al. 2014). These observations are carried out mainly with two facilities: the 2.6m VLT Survey Telescope (ESO’s VST) at the Cerro Paranal in Chile and the 2.0m Liverpool Telescope (LT) on the Canary Island of La Palma. The constraint of 20 mas on the tracking astrometric quality and the fact that Gaia is a faint and relatively fast moving target (its magnitude in a red passband is around 21 and its apparent speed around 0.04”/s), lead us to rigorously analyse the reachable astrometric precision for CCD observations of this kind of celestial objects. During LARIM 2016, we presented the main results of this study which uses the Cram´er-Rao lower bound to characterize the precision limit for the PSF center when drifting in the CCD-frame. This work extends earlier studies dealing with one-dimensional detectors and stationary sources (Mendez et al. 2013 & 2014) firstly to the case of standard two-dimensional CCD sensors, and then, to moving sources. These new results have been submitted for a publication in A&A journal this year (Bouquillon et al. 2017). Key Words: H II regions — ISM: jets and outflows — stars: mass loss — stars: pre-main sequence Regular 2015 FONDECYT FONDECYT