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NASA's Astrometric Telescope Facility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

Jeffrey D. Scargle ,
Kenji Nishioka  and
George Gatewood
Jeffrey D. Scargle
Affiliation:
NASA, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, 94035, U. S. A.
Kenji Nishioka
Affiliation:
NASA, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, 94035, U. S. A.
George Gatewood
Affiliation:
Allegheny Observatory, University of Pittsburgh

Abstract

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NASA is planning an Astrometric Telescope Facility (ATF) for the U.S. Space Station. Space astrometric observations of unprecedented accuracy will yield many important results, including a planetary detection survey. The proposed facility is a dedicated astrometric telescope using the Multichannel Astrometric Photometer (Gatewood et al., 1987). To achieve the goal of sub-milliarcsecond accuracy requires innovative approaches to measuring technique and data analysis.

Type
Part II: Current Research
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 133: Mapping the Sky: Past Heritage and Future Directions , 1988 , pp. 445 - 449
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1988 

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