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Census of the Galaxy: Challenges for Photometry and Spectrometry with GAIA - Proceedings of the Workshop held in Vilnius, Lithuania 2-6 July 2001 (Paperback, 2002 ed.)
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Census of the Galaxy: Challenges for Photometry and Spectrometry with GAIA - Proceedings of the Workshop held in Vilnius, Lithuania 2-6 July 2001 (Paperback, 2002 ed.)
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Astrometry from space was performed for the first time and with
great success by the ESA Hipparcos satellite (1989-93). This
mission was designed as an as trometry mission, but the use of a
photon counting detector made it possible to produce very important
photometric results: the most accurate astronomical pho tometry
ever by the main Hipparcos mission in a very broad band of 120000
stars, and the two-colour Tycho-2 photometry of 2.5 million stars.
The cornerstone ESA mission GAIA was approved in October 2000 for
launch not later than 2012. This mission will use CCDs in
time-delayed integration mode instead of the photo-cathode
detectors used in Hipparcos. Due to the higher quantum efficiency
of the CCDs, simultaneous integration of many stars, and larger
tele scope apertures GAIA will utilize the star light a million
times more efficiently than Hipparcos, resulting in astrometry and
multi-colour photometry for one billion stars. GAIA photometry is
crucial for the scientific utilization of the astrometric results,
and the photometric data have a high scientific content in
themselves.
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