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Objective-Prism Radial Velocities at High Latitudes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 March 2016
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Stock and Osborn (1972, 1973) have shown that objective-prism spectra taken with a conventional prism may be measured to produce radial velocities of sufficient accuracy for statistical purposes. They are determined by means of a third-order power series in both x and y coordinates. The same spectral-line measures can also yield positions such that proper motions can be determined if first-epoch positions are also available. For many stars, both tangential and radial velocities can be obtained with about the same error which is of the order of ± 20 km/sec. The field distortions caused by the prism are large but are constant and predictable to the degree that measured residuals are similar in size to those for direct images (Stock and Upgren 1968). A survey of a high-latitude zone between −30° and −35° in declination is underway and a catalogue of about 3000 stars has already been compiled by Stock. For each star, the catalogue lists an accurate 1950 position, spectral and luminosity type, apparent photographic magnitude, relative radial velocity and its weight, and the number of plates on which the star was measured.
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