Astrometry by ground-based telescopes for the Gaia mission
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- Institut de Mécanique Céleste et de Calcul des Ephémérides (IMCCE) ; Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris ; Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Lille-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE) ; Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS) ; COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur ; COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Description
The space astrometry Gaia mission is operating since July 2014 (Gaia Collaboration; Brown, A. et al., 2016; Gaia Collaboration; Prusti, T et al., 2016). As planned, Gaia detects many moving objects in its fields of view during its scanning process of the sky. Several months were necessary to tune the different parameters for filtering these objects among a huge number of sources in the Gaia focal plane. But since October 2016, a short term processing is operating for triggering alerts when unknown Solar System Objects are detected by the space probe. In this context, groundbased telescopes are an important support for the Gaia mission. We describe here the alert system developed and give an overview of the first results.
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- URL
- https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02320071
- URN
- urn:oai:HAL:hal-02320071v1
- Origin repository
- UNICA