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From the Roemer mission to Gaia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2007

E. Høg
E. Høg*
Affiliation:
Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University, Juliane Maries Vej 30, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark email: erik@astro.ku.dk
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Abstract

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At the IAU symposium in Shanghai September 1992 the present author made the first proposal for a specific mission concept post-Hipparcos, the first scanning astrometry mission with CCDs in time-delayed integration mode (TDI). Direct imaging on CCDs in long-focus telescopes was described as later adopted for the Gaia mission. The mission called Roemer was designed to provide accurate astrometry and multi-colour photometry of 400 million stars brighter than 18 mag in a five-year mission. The early years of this mission concept are reviewed.

Keywords

space vehiclesastrometryinstrumentation: photometers

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