Authors: Peng Q. Y., He H. F., Lainey V., and Vienne A.
%F: AA(Department of Computer Science, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China; Sino-France Joint Laboratory for Astrometry, Dynamics and Space Science, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China; Universit矤e Lille 1, LAL-IMCCE, UMR 8028, 59000 Lille, France), AB(Department of Computer Science, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China; Sino-France Joint Laboratory for Astrometry, Dynamics and Space Science, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China), AC(Sino-France Joint Laboratory for Astrometry, Dynamics and Space Science, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China; IMCCE-Observatoire de Paris, UMR 8028 du CNRS, UPMC,77 Avenue Denfert-Rochereau, 75014 Paris, France), AD(Sino-France Joint Laboratory for Astrometry, Dynamics and Space Science, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China; Universit矤e Lille 1, LAL-IMCCE, UMR 8028, 59000 Lille, France)
Title: Precise CCD positions of Galilean satellite-pairs
Abstract: In this paper, we present 526 precise CCD positions of Galilean satellite-pairs of Jupiter, which have been extracted from 441 CCD frames captured by a 1-m telescope at the Yunnan Observatory from 2002 to 2010. The four Galilean satellites (Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto) are used to calibrate the CCD field of view by comparing their pixel positions with their theoretical positions computed from two modern ephemerides of the Galilean satellites, L2 and JUP230, which have been developed by the Institut de M袨anique C諥ste et de Calcul des Ȱh让rides and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, respectively. In this paper, we focus on the relative position of a pair of satellites with short separation (less than 85 arcsec) for good internal precision. The mean (O - C) (observed minus computed) values of all these satellite-pairs in right ascension and declination are found to be no larger than 6 mas and 2 mas, respectively, for each ephemeris. The estimated precision for one single observation is better than 30 mas in each direction.
Keywords: Callisto, CCD, data, ephemerides, Europa, galilean, Ganymede, Io, Jupiter, observation, position
Journal: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume: 419
Pages: 1977-1982
Year: 2012
Bibliogaphic Code: 2012MNRAS.419.1977P
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