The Guide Star Catalog, Version 1.2: An Astrometric Recalibration and Other Refinements

2001 ◽  
Vol 121 (3) ◽  
pp. 1752-1763 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. E. Morrison ◽  
S. Röser ◽  
B. McLean ◽  
B. Bucciarelli ◽  
B. Lasker
Keyword(s):  
Star Catalog ◽  
Guide Star

Guide star catalog generation for short-wave infrared (SWIR) All-Time star sensor

2018 ◽  
Vol 89 (7) ◽  
pp. 075003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenjie Wang ◽  
Xinguo Wei ◽  
Jian Li ◽  
Guangjun Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Short Wave ◽  
Star Sensor ◽  
Star Catalog ◽  
Short Wave Infrared ◽  
Guide Star

The Guide Star Catalog. II. Astrometric and Photometric Algorithms and Precision

1988 ◽  
pp. 235-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane L. Russell ◽  
Barry M. Lasker ◽  
Helmut Jenkner
Keyword(s):  
Star Catalog ◽  
Guide Star

The Guide Star Catalog. I. Overview, History, and Prospective

1988 ◽  
pp. 229-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry M. Lasker ◽  
Helmut Jenkner ◽  
Jane L. Russell
Keyword(s):  
Star Catalog ◽  
Guide Star

Gspc-II: A Catalog of Photometric Calibrators for the Second Generation Guide Star Catalog

1998 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 379-380
Author(s):  
M. Postman ◽  
B. Bucciarelli ◽  
C. Sturch ◽  
T. Borgman ◽  
R. Casalegno ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Second Generation ◽  
Sky Surveys ◽  
Star Catalog ◽  
Sky Survey ◽  
Guide Star

The Guide Star photometric Catalog (GSPC-I; Lasker et al. 1988) is an all-sky set of photoelectrically determined BV sequences created to provide photometric calibrators for the Guide Star Catalog (Paper-I: Lasker et al. 1990, Paper-II: Russell et al. 1990, Paper-III: Jenkner et al. 1990). Although the GSPC-I has been the basis of preliminary photometric calibrations for the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS; Doggett et al. 1995), its relatively bright cutoff at about 15th magnitude limits its capability to support calibration of sky surveys, e.g., the new GSC-II (McLean et al. 1996, this volume, p. 431).

scholarly journals The Environments of Markarian Galaxies

1990 ◽  
Vol 124 ◽  
pp. 165-167
Author(s):  
John W. MacKenty ◽  
Brian McLean ◽  
Caroline Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Hubble Space Telescope ◽  
Ultraviolet Excess ◽  
Nuclear Activity ◽  
Space Telescope ◽  
Star Catalog ◽  
Guide Star ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Peculiar Galaxies

The extensively studied Markarian sample of 1500 ultraviolet excess galaxies contains many Seyfert, starburst, and peculiar galaxies. Using the 20 minute V plates obtained for the construction of the Hubble Space Telescope Guide Star Catalog, we have investigated the morphologies of the Markarian galaxies and the environments in which they are located. This paper reports on the relationship between the types of nuclear activity and the morphologies and environments of the Markarian galaxies.

Generation of Guide Star Catalog for Star Trackers

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 4592-4601 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Li ◽  
Gangyi Wang ◽  
Xinguo Wei
Keyword(s):  
Star Catalog ◽  
Guide Star

scholarly journals Photometric Calibrators for All-Sky Surveys: The GSPC-II Program

1994 ◽  
Vol 161 ◽  
pp. 301-303
Author(s):  
A. Ferrari ◽  
E.D. Siciliano ◽  
A. Pizzuti ◽  
B. Bucciarelli ◽  
G. Massone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hubble Space Telescope ◽  
Stellar Populations ◽  
Galactic Structure ◽  
Mission Planning ◽  
Space Telescope ◽  
Sky Surveys ◽  
Star Catalog ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Guide Star

Accurate astrometric and photometric calibrations of all-sky photographic surveys, such as the Palomar Quick-V survey and the UK SERC-J survey, digitised for the construction of the Hubble Space Telescope Guide Star Catalog, are of extreme astrophysical value. Their wide range of applications includes, for example, galactic structure, stellar populations, extragalactic studies, and deep sky catalogs for mission planning and telescope operations. The Guide Star Photometric Catalog (GSPC-I, Lasker et al. 1988) provides stellar calibration sequences, placed approximately in the center of each survey plate, with a limiting magnitude of V = 15 mag. The goal of our program is to extend these calibrators to V = 20 mag in the Johnson-Kron-Cousins B, V and R passbands, with an accuracy of 0.05 mag. This is accomplished by taking CCD frames centered on the faintest star of each GSPC-I sequence. Typically, both long and short exposures are acquired in each field in order to link the bright and faint ends of the sequence.

scholarly journals A Test of the Astrometric Quality of the Southern Guide Star Catalog 1.2

1995 ◽  
Vol 166 ◽  
pp. 375-375
Author(s):  
B. Bucciarelli ◽  
C. R. Sturch ◽  
B. M. Lasker ◽  
M. G. Lattanzi ◽  
T. M. Girard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Limited Area ◽  
Large Database ◽  
Star Catalog ◽  
Star Catalogue ◽  
Star Density ◽  
Filtering Technique ◽  
Suitable Reference ◽  
Guide Star ◽  
External Check

We used preliminary positions of the Yale Southern Proper Motion (SPM) catalogue (Platais, Girard et al., Astronomy from Large Database II, eds. Heck & Murtag, 1992) in a region of 5 fields around the South Galactic Pole to assess the astrometric accuracy of the mask solution (Taff, Lattanzi and Bucciarelli, ApJ 361, 667, 1990), which will be used (in combination with the subplate method) for the construction of the Guide Star Catalogue (GSC) version 1.2. Another semi-external check is done by direct comparison of GSC positions of stars lying onto overlapping plate areas. Results in tables 1 and 2 show that the average rms of the GSC–SPM differences is quite satisfactory (∼ 0.33 arcsecper coordinate), while an error degradation (up to ∼ 1 arcsecpositional) can occurr within a limited area at the plate corners, its signature varying from plate to plate. This can be cured on a plate-by-plate basis by the use of a filtering technique, e.g., as provided by the Collocation method (Bucciarelli, Lattanzi and Taff, ApJ Suppl. 84, 91, 1993), wherever a suitable reference star density is available.

scholarly journals The Guide Star Selection System and the Guide Star Catalog for Space Telescope

1986 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
pp. 721-727
Author(s):  
Jane L. Russell
Keyword(s):  
Production System ◽  
Selection System ◽  
Space Telescope ◽  
Star Catalog ◽  
Science Institute ◽  
Visual Magnitude ◽  
Photoelectric Measurements ◽  
Guide Star ◽  
Space Telescope Science Institute

The Guide Star Selection System (GSSS) will provide relative positions of two guide stars and the target for each observation of the Space Telescope as well as photometry for the guide stars. Being developed at the Space Telescope Science Institute, the GSSS is a production system which is based on PDS measurements of Schmidt survey plates. The specified accuracy for the system is +/−0.33 arcsec for the separation of the guide stars and 0.4 mag in the bandpass of the Space Telescope's Fine Guidance Sensors. The GSSS will produce two catalogs which will be used in the operation of the system. The Guide Star Photometry catalog includes photoelectric measurements (+/−0.05 mag) in B and V for six stars over the guide star range, 9.0 to 14.5 visual magnitude, near the central part of each 6 by 6 deg survey plate. The Guide Star Catalog will include the list of all possible guide stars and brighter, positions (at least +/−1 arcsec) and magnitudes (at least +/−0.4 mag) for essentially the whole sky complete to visual magnitude 15.

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