Micro-arcsecond Astrometry Technology: Detector and Field Distortion Calibration

Autor:	Shao, Michael, Zhai, Chengxing, Nemati, Bijan, Hahn, Inseob, Trahan, Russell, Turyshev, Slava G.
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Zdroj:	PASP 135:074502 (2023)
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1088/1538-3873/ace3f4
Popis:	Microarcsecond (uas) astrometry is an indispensable technique to detect earth-like exoplanets, fully characterize exoplanetary orbits, and measure their masses --information critical for assessing their habitability. Highly accurate astrometric measurements can also probe the nature of dark matter, the early universe, black holes, and neutron stars, thus providing unique data for new astrophysics. This paper presents technologies of calibrating detectors and field distortions for achieving narrow field uas relative astrometry with a focal plane array detector on a 6 m telescope. Comment: 17 pages, 11 figures
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.08129 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv