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Method of Ignoring the Systematic Variations of Stellar Parallaxes over the Celestial Sphere in a Kinematic Analysis of Stellar Proper Motions. / Vityazev, V.V.; Tsvetkov, A.S.
In: Astronomy Letters, Vol. 40, No. 6, 2014, p. 320-333.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Method of Ignoring the Systematic Variations of Stellar Parallaxes over the Celestial Sphere in a Kinematic Analysis of Stellar Proper Motions
AU - Vityazev, V.V.
AU - Tsvetkov, A.S.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - A method for determining the velocity field parameters free from the distortions due to the systematic variations of stellar parallaxes over the celestial sphere is proposed. The method is based on the approximation of parallaxes as a function of coordinates on the sphere using spherical harmonics and can be applied in those cases where the solar motion cannot be eliminated from the stellar proper motions. Numerical experiments have shown that our method is able to obtain accurate coordinates of the solar apex and to calculate the kinematic parameters of the Ogorodnikov–Milne model to within three coefficients of the decomposition of parallaxes into first-order spherical harmonics. Examples of applying the method to the stellar proper motions of the Hipparcos catalogue, which admits checking the results using trigonometric parallaxes, are provided. Such a check has been found to yield a positive result only for nearby stars at heliocentric distances that do not exceed 400 pc and for which the parallaxes were
AB - A method for determining the velocity field parameters free from the distortions due to the systematic variations of stellar parallaxes over the celestial sphere is proposed. The method is based on the approximation of parallaxes as a function of coordinates on the sphere using spherical harmonics and can be applied in those cases where the solar motion cannot be eliminated from the stellar proper motions. Numerical experiments have shown that our method is able to obtain accurate coordinates of the solar apex and to calculate the kinematic parameters of the Ogorodnikov–Milne model to within three coefficients of the decomposition of parallaxes into first-order spherical harmonics. Examples of applying the method to the stellar proper motions of the Hipparcos catalogue, which admits checking the results using trigonometric parallaxes, are provided. Such a check has been found to yield a positive result only for nearby stars at heliocentric distances that do not exceed 400 pc and for which the parallaxes were
KW - astrometry
KW - stellar proper motions
KW - parallaxes
KW - spherical harmonics
KW - stellar kinematics
KW - Hipparcos.
U2 - 10.1134/S1063773714060048
DO - 10.1134/S1063773714060048
M3 - Article
VL - 40
SP - 320
EP - 333
JO - Astronomy Letters
JF - Astronomy Letters
SN - 1063-7737
IS - 6
ER -
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