GAIA and SIM missions
Abstract
The GAIA mission: technical design and science goals. Constructing an extragalactic reference frame with GAIA: modelling the systematics of quasar proper motions, simulation of GAIA observations of quasars, construction of GAIA reference frame using the known QSO and AGN sources, basic equations and simulations, linking the GAIA catalogue to the International Celestial Reference System (ICRS). The Space Interferometry Mission: description of SIM, performances of SIM, science program of SIM.
- Publication:
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Journées 1999 - systèmes de référence spatio-temporels & IX. Lohrmann-Kolloquium. Motion of celestial bodies, astrometry and astronomical reference frames
- Pub Date:
- 2000
- Bibcode:
- 2000jsrs.meet..119K
- Keywords:
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- Astrometry