Gaia making a 3D-map of a Billion stars, new space observatory |
Gaia making a 3D-map of a Billion stars, new space observatory |
Apr 1 2006, 07:38 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 124 Joined: 23-March 06 Member No.: 723 |
Have you guys heard about this one ?
Gaia observatory link link QUOTE "The satellite will determine the position, colour and true motion of one thousand million stars and over 100,000 objects in our Solar System. Gaia will also identify as many as 10,000 planets around other stars. " QUOTE "Gaia will measure distance (from parallax) out to ~100,000 parsecs; for stars ~10,000 pc away, with a Vmag of ~<15, Gaia will measure their distances accurate to ~10-20%." You can also read about it here http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0407/06mapping/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_probe or check the European space site |
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Dec 19 2013, 10:50 AM
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Dublin Correspondent Group: Admin Posts: 1799 Joined: 28-March 05 From: Celbridge, Ireland Member No.: 220 |
Lots of rather odd (to me) claims being made about the resolution of Gaia's imaging system - Human hair at a thousand miles, penny on the moon etc. I've started to dig into the science instrument documents and the expected resolution of the astrometry is in the single digit micro-arcsecond range but I'm a bit at a loss as to how a ~1.45x0.9m telescope can get those results given diffraction limits.
So I assume there's some other techniques being brought to bear that allow it to get to a "resolution" 1000x Hubble at it's best and I'm assuming that the resolution only applies in the specific case of the task in hand. Just asking in case anyone has any pointers to the maths\theory behind what they are doing. Will be looking myself and post as soon as I find something. |
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