| | |
| | |
Stat |
Members: 3667 Articles: 2'599'751 Articles rated: 2609
07 February 2025 |
|
| | | |
|
Article overview
| |
|
Confirmation of Errors in Hipparcos Parallaxes from HST/FGS Astrometry of the Pleiades | David R. Soderblom
; Ed Nelan
; G. Fritz Benedict
; Barbara McArthur
; Ivan Ramirez
; William Spiesman
; Burton F. Jones
; | Date: |
3 Dec 2004 | Subject: | astro-ph | Affiliation: | Space Telescope Science Institute), G. Fritz Benedict, Barbara McArthur, Ivan Ramirez, and William Spiesman (McDonald Observatory, University of Texas), and Burton F. Jones (Lick Observatory, University of California | Abstract: | We present absolute trigonometric parallaxes and relative proper motions for three members of the Pleiades star cluster, obtained with HST’s Fine Guidance Sensor 1r, a white-light interferometer. We estimate spectral types and luminosity classes of the stars comprising the astrometric reference frame from R approx 2,000 spectra, VJHK photometry, and reduced proper motions. From these we derive estimates of absolute parallaxes and introduce them into our model as observations with error. We constrain the three cluster members to have a 1 sigma dispersion in distance less than 6.4 pc, and find an average pi_{abs}=7.43+-0.17+-0.20 milliseconds of arc, where the second error is systematic due to member placement within the cluster. This parallax corresponds to a distance of 134.6+-3.1 pc or a distance modulus of (m-M)=5.65+-0.05 for these three Pleiads, presuming a central location. This result agrees with three other independent determinations of the Pleiades distance. Presuming that the cluster depth systematic error can be significantly reduced because of the random placement of these many members within the cluster, these four independent measures yield a best-estimate Pleiades distance of pi_{abs}=7.49+-0.07 milliseconds of arc, corresponding to a distance of 133.5+-1.2 pc or a distance modulus of (m-M)=5.63+-0.02. This resolves the dispute between the main sequence fitting and the Hipparcos distance moduli in favor of main sequence fitting. | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0412093 | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites |
|
|
No review found.
Did you like this article?
Note: answers to reviews or questions about the article must be posted in the forum section.
Authors are not allowed to review their own article. They can use the forum section.
|
| |
|
|
|