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从依巴谷到盖亚

From Hipparcos to Gaia

L. Eyer, P. Dubath, S. Saesen, D. W. Evans, L. Wyrzykowski, S. Hodgkin, N. Mowlavi

摘要:

对恒星的位置、距离、运动和光度的测量是现代天文学知识的基础。欧空局的Hipparcos卫星于80年代末发射,是第一个专门用于此类测量的空间飞行任务。与典型的地面结果相比,依巴谷卫星的定位精度提高了100倍,并提供了对整个天空118,000颗恒星的天体测量和光度测量多历元观测。依巴谷对天体物理学的影响是极其宝贵和多样的。在这一重要的欧洲成功的基础上,欧空局盖亚基石任务有望取得更令人印象深刻的进展。与依巴谷相比,它将在位置精度上提高50至100倍,在恒星数量上提高10,000倍,收集10亿个天体的光度、分光光度和光谱数据。在其5年的飞行中,盖亚将重复测量物体,多达数百次,为研究所有类型天体的变化提供前所未有的数据库。盖亚将直接或间接地为天体物理学的大多数研究领域做出杰出贡献,例如研究我们的银河系及其恒星成分,寻找太阳系外的行星。

英文摘要:

The measurement of the positions, distances, motions and luminosities of stars represents the foundations of modern astronomical knowledge. Launched at the end of the eighties, the ESA Hipparcos satellite was the first space mission dedicated to such measurements. Hipparcos improved position accuracies by a factor of 100 compared to typical ground-based results and provided astrometric and photometric multi-epoch observations of 118,000 stars over the entire sky. The impact of Hipparcos on astrophysics has been extremely valuable and diverse. Building on this important European success, the ESA Gaia cornerstone mission promises an even more impressive advance. Compared to Hipparcos, it will bring a gain of a factor 50 to 100 in position accuracy and of a factor of 10,000 in star number, collecting photometric, spectrophotometric and spectroscopic data for one billion celestial objects. During its 5-year flight, Gaia will measure objects repeatedly, up to a few hundred times, providing an unprecedented database to study the variability of all types of celestial objects. Gaia will bring outstanding contributions, directly or indirectly, to most fields of research in astrophysics, such as the study of our Galaxy and of its stellar constituents, the search for planets outside the solar system.

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