The second-generation guide star catalog: Description and properties

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 735-766

  Lasker, Barry M ^a   Lattanzi, Mario G ^b   McLean, Brian J ^a   Bucciarelli, Beatrice ^b   Drimmel, Ronald ^b   Garcia, Jorge ^c   Greene, Gretchen ^a   Guglielmetti, Fabrizia ^d   Hanley, Christopher ^a   Hawkins, George ^a   Laidler, Victoria G ^a,e   Loomis, Charles ^a,e   Meakes, Michael ^a   Mignani, Roberto ^f   Morbidelli, Roberto ^b   Morrison, Jane ^g   Pannunzio, Renato ^b   Rosenberg, Amy ^a   Sarasso, Maria ^b   Smart, Richard L ^b   Spagna, Alessandro ^b   Sturch, Conrad R ^a,e   Volpicelli, Antonio ^b   White, Richard L ^a   Wolfe, David ^a   Zacchei, Andrea ^h   more..

^a STScI   (United States)

^b OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PLASMAPHYSIK   (Germany)

^e Space Telescope Science Institute ^*  (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^h INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Astrometry; Astronomical data bases: miscellaneous; Catalogs; Surveys; Techniques: image processing; Techniques: photometric

Indexed keywords

EID: 52949141653     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-6256/136/2/735     Document Type: Article

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