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Statistical properties of Hipparcos 2, caveats on its use, and a recalibration of the intermediate astrometric data
Brandt, Timothy D.; Brandt, G. Mirek; Michalik, Daniel
We revisit the Hipparcos 2007 re-reduction and find improvements to the catalogue by leveraging Gaia EDR3. We show that including a constant residual offset and additional dispersion (two free parameters in total) in the Hipparcos 2007 Intermediate Astrometric Data (IAD) creates a new catalogue with significantly better agreement with Gaia EDR3. T…
A reduction procedure and pipeline for the detection of trans-Neptunian objects using occultations
Ofek, Eran O.; Nir, Guy; Zackay, Barak
Kuiper belt objects smaller than a few kilometres are difficult to observe directly. They can be detected when they randomly occult a background star. Close to the ecliptic plane, each star is occulted once every tens of thousands of hours, and occultations typically last for less than a second. We present an algorithm, and companion pipeline, for…
Overcoming separation between counterparts due to unknown proper motions in catalogue cross-matching
Wilson, Tom J.
To perform precise and accurate photometric catalogue cross-matches - assigning counterparts between two separate data sets - we need to describe all possible sources of uncertainty in object position. With ever-increasing time baselines between observations, like 2MASS in 2001 and the next generation of surveys, such as the Vera C. Rubin Observat…