The Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer -- Astrometry for the New Millennium

FAME is designed to perform an all-sky, astrometric survey with unprecedented accuracy. It will create a rigid astrometric catalog of 4x10^7 stars with 5 < m_V < 15. For bright stars, 5 < m_V < 9, FAME will determine positions and parallaxes accurate to < 50 microarcseconds, with prop...

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Published inarXiv.org
Main Authors Horner, Scott D, Germain, Marvin E, Greene, Thomas P, Harris, Fred H, Johnson, Mark S, Johnston, Kenneth J, Monet, David G, Murison, Marc A, Phillips, James D, Reasenberg, Robert D, Seidelmann, P Kenneth, Urban, Sean E, Vassar, Richard H
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LanguageEnglish
Published Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 15.07.1999
Subjects
Astrometry
Mapping
Photometry
Sky surveys (astronomy)
Stars
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Summary:FAME is designed to perform an all-sky, astrometric survey with unprecedented accuracy. It will create a rigid astrometric catalog of 4x10^7 stars with 5 < m_V < 15. For bright stars, 5 < m_V < 9, FAME will determine positions and parallaxes accurate to < 50 microarcseconds, with proper motion errors < 50 microarcseconds/year. For fainter stars, 9 < m_V < 15, FAME will determine positions and parallaxes accurate to < 500 microarcseconds, with proper motion errors < 500 microarcseconds/year. It will also collect photometric data on these 4 x 10^7 stars in four Sloan DSS colors.
ISSN:2331-8422