Quasi-automatic software support for Gaia ground based optical tracking

S. Bouquillon; C. Barache; T. Carlucci; F. Taris; M. Altmann; A. H. Andrei; R. Smart; Iain A. Steele; Sebastian G. Els

doi:10.1117/12.2054667

18 July 2014 Quasi-automatic software support for Gaia ground based optical tracking

S. Bouquillon, C. Barache, T. Carlucci, F. Taris, M. Altmann, A. H. Andrei, R. Smart, Iain A. Steele, Sebastian G. Els

Proceedings Volume 9152, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy III; 915203 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2054667
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

The ESA Gaia satellite mission will create a catalog of 1 billion stars with unprecedented astrometric precision. To achieve its aim in terms of astrometric precision, a ground based optical tracking campaign (GBOT) of the satellite itself is necessary during the five years of the mission. We present an overview of the GBOT project as a whole in another contribution¹ (Altmann et al. in SPIE category "observatory operations"). The present paper will focus more specifically on the software solutions developed by the GBOT group.

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S. Bouquillon, C. Barache, T. Carlucci, F. Taris, M. Altmann, A. H. Andrei, R. Smart, Iain A. Steele, and Sebastian G. Els "Quasi-automatic software support for Gaia ground based optical tracking", Proc. SPIE 9152, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy III, 915203 (18 July 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2054667

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