Observation of binaries with DIVA
Abstract
The DIVA mission will provide high-precision positions, proper motions, parallaxes and photometric data for about 35 million stars. Due to the progress in technology since the time when Hipparcos was designed, DIVA will be able to surpass the performance of Hipparcos in every respect: it will observe 300 times more stars at 5 times better accuracy and provide spectrophotometry for about 10 million stars. Besides its important impact on many different fields of astrophysics, the mission will allow to reach a significant number of binaries of different types, both for parallaxes and for proper motions, and to improve considerably their statistics.
- Publication:
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IAU Symposium
- Pub Date:
- 2000
- Bibcode:
- 2000IAUS..200P.151S