Quasi-automatic software support for Gaia ground based optical tracking
arXiv:2608.09795 · doi:10.1117/12.2054667
Abstract
The ESA Gaia satellite mission will create a catalog of 1 billion stars with unprecedented astrometric precision. To achieve its aim in terms of astrometric precision, a ground based optical tracking campaign (GBOT) of the satellite itself is necessary during the five years of the mission. We present an overview of the GBOT project as a whole in another contribution (Altmann et al. in SPIE category "observatory operations"). The present paper will focus more specifically on the software solutions developed by the GBOT group.
Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9152, id. 915203 16 pp. (2014)