Representations of celestial coordinates in FITS

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 395, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1077-1122

  Calabretta, M R ^a   Greisen, E W ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrometry; Astronomical data bases: miscellaneous; Methods: data analysis; Techniques: image processing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

IMAGE PIXELS;

RADIO ASTRONOMY;

EID: 0036899025     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20021327     Document Type: Article

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