K giants as astrometric reference stars for the Space Interferometry Mission

Sabine Frink; Andreas Quirrenbach; Debra Fischer; Siegfried Roeser; Elena Schilbach

doi:10.1117/12.390282

5 July 2000 K giants as astrometric reference stars for the Space Interferometry Mission

Sabine Frink, Andreas Quirrenbach, Debra Fischer, Siegfried Roeser, Elena Schilbach

Proceedings Volume 4006, Interferometry in Optical Astronomy; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.390282
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2000, Munich, Germany

Abstract

Wide angle astrometry with the Space Interferometry Mission needs a set of several thousand grid stars distributed uniformly over the sky. The requirements for candidate grid stars are quite stringent: the photocenters of these stars have to be astrometrically stable to within a few microarcseconds, which makes binary stars unacceptable as grid stars. We search the most precise and comprehensive astrometric catalogs available today--the Hipparcos, Tycho-1 and Tycho-2 Catalogues--for possible grid stars, and discuss the properties of samples of K giants derived from these catalogs. Furthermore, we present results of a precise radial velocity study of a small proxy sample of Hipparcos K giants. We demonstrate that it is possible to find K giants with radial velocity variations smaller than a few tens of meters per second on timescales of several months. It is thus possible to detect stellar companions in samples of candidate grid stars by means of a radial velocity survey. We discuss the results of Monte Carlo simulations that address the consequences of the measurement accuracy of a radial velocity survey on the portion of undetected binary systems.

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Sabine Frink, Andreas Quirrenbach, Debra Fischer, Siegfried Roeser, and Elena Schilbach "K giants as astrometric reference stars for the Space Interferometry Mission", Proc. SPIE 4006, Interferometry in Optical Astronomy, (5 July 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.390282

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