John Quincy Adams, the Smithsonian Bequest and the Founding of the U. S. Naval Observatory

2020 ◽  
pp. 417-431
Author(s):  
Steven J. Dick
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1998 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 551-551
Author(s):  
N. Zacharias ◽  
M.I. Zacharias ◽  
C. de Vegt ◽  
C.A. Murray

The Second Cape Photographic Catalog (CPC2) contains 276,131 stars covering the entire Southern Hemisphere in a 4-fold overlap pattern. Its mean epoch is 1968, which makes it a key catalog for proper motions. A new reduction of the 5687 plates using on average 40 Hipparcos stars per plate has resulted in a vastly improved catalog with a positional accuracy of about 40 mas (median value) per coordinate, which comes very close to the measuring precision. In particular, for the first time systematic errors depending on magnitude and color can be solved unambiguously and have been removed from the catalog. In combination with the Tycho Catalogue (mean epoch 1991.25) and the upcoming U.S. Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC) project proper motions better than 2 mas/yr can be obtained. This will lead to a vastly improved reference star catalog in the Southern Hemisphere for the final Astrographic Catalogue (AC) reductions, which will then provide propermotions for millions of stars when combined with new epoch data. These data then will allow an uncompromised reduction of the southern Schmidt surveys on the International Celestial Reference System (ICRS).


2004 ◽  
Vol 127 (1) ◽  
pp. 539-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian D. Mason ◽  
William I. Hartkopf ◽  
Gary L. Wycoff ◽  
Dan Pascu ◽  
Sean E. Urban ◽  
...  

Science ◽  
1909 ◽  
Vol 30 (781) ◽  
pp. 880-881
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2018 ◽  
Vol 615 ◽  
pp. A49 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Cantat-Gaudin ◽  
A. Vallenari ◽  
R. Sordo ◽  
F. Pensabene ◽  
A. Krone-Martins ◽  
...  

Context. The Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution (TGAS) subset of the first Gaia catalogue contains an unprecedented sample of proper motions and parallaxes for two million stars brighter than G ~ 12 mag. Aims. We take advantage of the full astrometric solution available for those stars to identify the members of known open clusters and compute mean cluster parameters using either TGAS or the fourth U.S. Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC4) proper motions, and TGAS parallaxes. Methods. We apply an unsupervised membership assignment procedure to select high probability cluster members, we use a Bayesian/Markov Chain Monte Carlo technique to fit stellar isochrones to the observed 2MASS JHKS magnitudes of the member stars and derive cluster parameters (age, metallicity, extinction, distance modulus), and we combine TGAS data with spectroscopic radial velocities to compute full Galactic orbits. Results. We obtain mean astrometric parameters (proper motions and parallaxes) for 128 clusters closer than about 2 kpc, and cluster parameters from isochrone fitting for 26 of them located within a distance of 1 kpc from the Sun. We show the orbital parameters obtained from integrating 36 orbits in a Galactic potential.


2007 ◽  
Vol 134 (4) ◽  
pp. 1671-1678 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian D. Mason ◽  
William I. Hartkopf ◽  
Gary L. Wycoff ◽  
Gary Wieder

1997 ◽  
Vol 111 (1) ◽  
pp. 289-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey G. Douglass ◽  
Robert B. Hindsley ◽  
Charles E. Worley

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