- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/561/A37
- Title:
- Prediction of stellar occultations 2012.5-2014
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/561/A37
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The prediction tables of stellar occultations by 5 Centaurs and 34 TNOs (referred simply as TNOs hereafter) for the period 2012.5-2014 were built to support the investigation of the physical properties of (8405) Asbolus, (24835) 1995 SM55, (10199) Chariklo, (26375) 1999 DE9, (47171) 1999 TC36, (38628) Huya, (54598) Bienor, (55565) 2002 AW197, (55576) Amycus, (83982) Crantor, (119951) 2002 KX14, (307261) 2002 MS4, (84522) 2002 TC302, (55637) 2002 UX25, (55638) 2002 VE95, (119979) 2002 WC19, (120132) 2003 FY128, (174567) 2003 MW12, (120178) 2003 OP32, 2003 UZ413, (84922) 2003 VS2, (90568) 2004 GV9, 2004 NT33, (175113) 2004 PF115, (120347) Salacia, (120348) 2004 TY364, (144897) 2004 UX10, 2005 CC79 (2011 FX62), (303775) 2005 QU182, (145451) 2005 RM43, (145452) 2005 RN43, (145453) 2005 RR43, (202421) 2005 UQ513, 2007 JH43, (278361) 2007 JJ43, (225088) 2007 OR10, (229762) 2007 UK126, 2008 OG19, and 2010 EK139 for this period. These objects are important to understand the structure, origin, and evolution of the outer solar system. Our goal was to derive precise predictions. With this aim, we constructed astrometric star catalogues in the UCAC4 system covering their sky paths. For that, we carried out during 2011-2013 an observational program at the ESO2p2/WFI instrument covering the sky path of these 39 TNOs for the period 2012.5-2014. We made the astrometry of 550 GB of images with the Platform for Reduction of Astronomical Images Automatically (PRAIA). By relatively simple astrometric techniques, we treated the overlapping observations and derived a field distortion pattern for the WFI mosaic of CCDs to within 50mas precision. The catalogue star positions were obtained in the UCAC4 frame with uncertainties of 40mas for stars up to magnitude completeness (about R=19). New stellar proper motions were also determined with 2MASS and the USNO B1.0 catalogue positions as first epoch. The catalogues for all TNOs contain in all more than 12.4 million entries, covering the sky paths of the objects with 30 arcmin width. The magnitude completeness is about R=19 with a limit about R=21. Ephemeris offsets with about 10mas to 100mas precision were applied for each TNO orbit to improve the predictions. They were obtained during 2011-2013 from a parallel observational campaign carried out with telescope diameters from 0.6m to 2.2m. The 7343 candidate stars listed in the prediction tables were searched using a proximity radius of 650mas with the geocentric apparent orbit (corrected by ephemeris offsets) of the body considered. This radius is a little more than seven times the apparent radius of a body with Pluto's size (50mas) plus the apparent Earth radius (285 mas) as projected in the sky plane at 31AU (about the Pluto-Earth distance for 2008-2015). No threshold in R magnitude was used in the search for candidates, as relatively faint R objects may turn out to be bright infrared stars, perfect targets for the SOFIA observatory and for ground-based instruments well equipped with J, H, or K band detectors (J, H, and K magnitudes are promptly available in the tables if the star belongs to the 2MASS). Besides, events may be also favoured by slow shadow speeds of less than 20km/s. Also, no constraint on a geographic place was applied, as in principle SOFIA observations can be done from any sub-solar point on Earth. Events in daylight at sub-planet point were not excluded either, as they could yet be observable in the dark, right above the horizon, from places near the Earth terminator. We furnish here prediction tables for future and also for past stellar occultations covering the sky paths between 2012.5-2014. The importance of predictions for occultations still to come is obvious. But the predictions of past occultations are also useful for at least three reasons. First, they can be used by anyone as reference for ongoing fittings of light curves of recent past observed events. Second, they serve to derive ephemeris drifts by comparing expected and observed central instants and C/A values. Finally, they can be used as an external check for the accuracy and precision of our prediction tables. In all, for R=19 stars (catalogue magnitude completeness) and 40mas errors in the WFI positions, we may assume a bulk error of about 80mas for C/A, dominated by the ephemeris offsets errors of about 70mas. For about 40AU, this implies a shadow path uncertainty over the Earth of the order of 2300km. If the ephemeris offsets can be well determined to within 30mas precision, then a bulk error of 50mas in C/A can be achieved, leading to a precision of about 1400km for the WFI occultation path predictions. Thus, the probability of actually observing the occultation is not as high as hoped, but not despairingly small, especially if the event occurs above a dense, populated region in terms of astronomers, including amateurs, with access to telescopes.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/I/42
- Title:
- Preliminary Cat. of Fund. Faint Stars
- Short Name:
- I/42
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The PFKSZ is based on 14 catalogues, observed at 10 observatories (Bucharest, Wroslaw, Kiev, Goloseevo-GAO, Kazan, GAISH, Odessa, Pulkovo, Tashkent, Kharkov). The catalogue PFKSZ contain 587 stars from 7.3 to 8.4 vis.mag. Most of the catalogues have been obtained from differential meridian observations in the FK3 system. The proper motions were found in the FK3 system mainly from GC, AGK2 (or AGK2A), Yale and PFKSZ catalogues. The precision of PFKSZ catalogue is Mean Error(in Alfa x cos Decl.) = +/- 0.0068 timesec Mean Error(in Decl.) = +/- 0.127 arcsec for the mean epoch 1949.0.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/I/207
- Title:
- Preliminary list from Tycho observations (TIC data)
- Short Name:
- I/207
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The selection of the stars of the Tycho program is mainly based on the Tycho input catalogue (TIC), prepared by Egret et al. (1992) from existing ground-based catalogues. The TIC is far to be the definitive list of the stars that will appear in the final Tycho catalogue however. The number of stars included within (3 million) is several times larger than the number eventually expected. The selection of the TIC stars that will remain in the final catalogue is planned in two steps : The former is the "Recognition" that is based on the first year of the scientific mission. The latter step of selection is the final reduction of the Tycho data, which will require a few more years. The recognition was completed in 1992, and, among the 3,154,204 stars of the TIC, about two third were not found in the observations. This catalogue presents the 1,049,971 stars that are still in the programme. The selection is nor definitive, nor complete; but it should contain only a small percentage of stars that will still be discarded. On another side, some stars missing in the TIC have been added to the Tycho program, but the expected number of additional stars to appear in the final catalogue should be about 5 % or less. The list was announced in Halbwachs et al (1994). It is completed with data (coordinates and magnitudes) from the main file of the Tycho Input Catalogue. The cross-identifications with the Hipparcos Input Catalogue or with the INCA database included in catalogue I/197/ are not repeated here.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/145/223
- Title:
- Proper motion data of M10
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/145/223
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the first proper motion study of M10 (NGC 6254). Absolute proper motions of about 532 stars in the field of the globular cluster M10 were determined with respect to Hipparcos and ACT reference stars. In addition to photographic plates of Bonn and Shanghai also wide field CCD observations as second epoch plates were used. The wide field CCD observations show an accuracy comparable to that of the photographic plates. A good coincidence of the solutions based on reference stars from Hipparcos and from ACT was found. Our final proper motions allow a sufficient separation of cluster and field stars. Two population II Cepheids were confirmed to be members of M10. The absolute proper motion of M10 was determined and combined with its distance from the Sun and its radial velocity. The space motion and metallicity of M10 indicates the characteristics of a halo object with an orbit reaching to a maximal z-distance of less than 3kpc.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/137/1
- Title:
- Proper motions and astrometry of late-type dwarfs
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/137/1
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report proper-motion measurements for 427 late-type M, L, and T dwarfs, 332 of which have been measured for the first time. Combining these new proper motions with previously published measurements yields a sample of 841 M7-T8 dwarfs. We combined parallax measurements or calculated spectrophotometric distances, and computed tangential velocities for the entire sample.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/389/285
- Title:
- Proper motions and JHK of 24 Berkeley clusters
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/389/285
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The main astrophysical parameters of 24 previously unstudied open clusters of Berkeley catalogue are presented here. JHK near-infrared (Two Micron All Sky Survey, Cat. II/246) photometry and the proper motions astrometry of Naval Observatory Merged Astrometric Dataset (NOMAD, Cat. I/297) are used. The clusters' centres, angular diameters, ages, distances and colour excesses for these clusters are estimated for the first time.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/I/5
- Title:
- Proper Motions in Cape Zone Catalogue -40/-52
- Short Name:
- I/5
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This catalog, listing the proper motions of 20,843 stars from the Cape Astrographic Zones, was compiled from three series of photographic plates. The plates were taken at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, in the following years: 1892-1896, 1897-1910, 1923-1928. Data given include centennial proper motion, photographic and visual magnitude, Harvard spectral type, Cape Photographic Durchmusterung (CPD) identification, epoch, right ascension and declination for 1900.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/I/212
- Title:
- Proper motions in NGC 3680
- Short Name:
- I/212
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- (no description available)
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/I/257B
- Title:
- Proper Motions in Praesepe
- Short Name:
- I/257B
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- High-precision proper motions for 257 and 296 stars in a 90'x90' region centered on BD+20 2170 were obtained from seven plates taken with the Zo-se 40cm refractor (f=6895mm) in March, 1986 (see the "Plate Summary" section below), combined with six AC plates and the stellar positions in Russell's (1976, Ph.D. Thesis, Pittsburgh University). Combined with other data, membership probabilities were estimated by an improved maximum likelihood method. A very good sample of 198 members is obtained with proper motion accuracies ranging from +/-0.2 to +/-5.0mas/yr, of which 60% are better than +/-1.0mas/yr; the completeness limit is about B=15.5mag. Note that the table published in electronic form associated to the paper published in 1995A&AS..113..419W presented positions not correctly associated to the stars (see the "History" section below)
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/119/2866
- Title:
- Proper motions of metal-poor stars
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/119/2866
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a revised catalog of 2106 Galactic stars, selected without kinematic bias and with available radial velocities, distance estimates, and metal abundances in the range -4.0<=[Fe/H]<=0.0. This update of the 1995 Beers & Sommer-Larsen catalog (Cat. <J/ApJS/96/175>) includes newly derived homogeneous photometric distance estimates, revised radial velocities for a number of stars with recently obtained high-resolution spectra, and refined metallicities for stars originally identified in the HK objective-prism survey (which account for nearly half of the catalog) based on a recent recalibration. A subset of 1258 stars in this catalog have available proper motions based on measurements obtained with the Hipparcos astrometry satellite or taken from the updated Astrographic Catalogue (second epoch positions from either the Hubble Space Telescope Guide Star Catalog or the Tycho Catalogue), the Yale/San Juan Southern Proper Motion Catalog 2.0, and the Lick Northern Proper Motion Catalog. Our present catalog includes 388 RR Lyrae variables (182 of which are newly added), 38 variables of other types, and 1680 nonvariables, with distances in the range 0.1 to 40kpc.
