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The Making of History's Greatest Star Map
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ISBN: 9783642116025 9783642116018 Year: 2010 Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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What has prompted these remarkable developments ? Why have governments been persuaded to fund them ? What are scientists learning from astronomy's equivalent of the Human Genome Project ? This book traces the subject's history, explains why such enormous efforts are considered worthwhile, and interweaves these with a first-hand insight into the Hipparcos project, and how big science is conducted at an international level. The involvement of amateur astronomers, and the Hipparcos contributions to climate research, 'death stars' passing close to the Sun, and the search for extra-solar planets and even intelligent life itself, are some of the surprising facets of this unusual space mission


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Relativity in astrometry, celestial mechanics and geodesy
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ISBN: 0387189068 3540189068 3642734081 3642734065 Year: 1989 Publisher: New York, NY ; Berlin : Springer,


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Astrophysics from the moon : Annapolis, Maryland, 1990
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ISBN: 0883187701 Year: 1990 Volume: vol 207 Publisher: New York : American Institute of Physics,

Calibration of fundamental stellar quantities : proceedings of the 111th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, held at Villa Olmo, Como, Italy, May 24-29, 1984
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ISBN: 9027721092 9027721106 9400954565 Year: 1985 Publisher: Dordrecht : ©1985 D. Reidel publishing company,

The impact of VLBI on astrophysics and geophysics : proceedings of the 129th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A., May 10-15, 1987
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ISBN: 902772704X Year: 1988 Publisher: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers,

Hipparcos, the new reduction of the raw data
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ISBN: 9781402063411 1402063415 9048176123 9786611339210 1281339210 1402063423 Year: 2007 Volume: 350 Publisher: [Dordrecht ?] : Springer,

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The new reduction of the Hipparcos data presents a very significant improvement in the overall reliability of the astrometric catalogue derived from this mission. Improvements by up to a factor 4 in the accuracies for in particular brighter stars have been obtained. This has been achieved mainly through careful study of the satellite dynamics, and incorporating results from these studies in the attitude modelling. Data correlations, caused by attitude-modelling errors in the original catalogue, have all but disappeared. This book provides overviews of the new reduction as well as on the use of the Hipparcos data in a variety of astrophysical implementations. A range of new results, like cluster distances and luminosity calibrations, is presented. The Hipparcos data provide a unique opportunity for the study of satellite dynamics. The orbit covered a wide range of altitudes, showing in detail the different torques acting on the satellite. One part of the book details these studies and their impact on the new reduction. It furthermore presents an extensive summary on a wide range of spacecraft and payload calibrations, which provide a detailed record of the conditions under which these unique Hipparcos data have been obtained.

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