The Hipparcos Catalogue

M. A.C. Perryman; L. Lindegren; J. Kovalevsky; E. Høg; U. Bastian; P. L. Bernacca; F. Donati; M. Grenon; H. Van Der Marel; null More Authors

The Hipparcos Catalogue

M. A.C. Perryman^*, L. Lindegren, J. Kovalevsky, E. Høg, U. Bastian, P. L. Bernacca, F. Donati, M. Grenon, H. Van Der Marel, More Authors

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The principal observational characteristics of the Hipparcos Catalogue, and a summary of its main astrometric and photometric properties, are presented. Median astrometric standard errors (in position, parallax, and annual proper motion) are in the range 0.7-0.9 milliarcsec (mas) for stars brighter than 9 mag at the catalogue epoch (J1991.25). The catalogue is a materialisation of the ICRS reference system, coinciding with its principal axes at the level of ±0.6 mas, and with proper motions consistent with an inertial system at the level of ±0.25 mas/yr. The 118218 constituent stars provide a mean sky density of ∼ 3 stars deg^-2. The catalogue is available in printed and machine-readable forms.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	L49-L52
Number of pages	4
Journal	Astronomy and Astrophysics
Volume	323
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - 1997

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Astrometry
Catalogues
Hipparcos
Parallaxes
Proper motions

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