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most citedCHES: a space-borne astrometric mission for the detection of habitable planets of the nearby solar-type stars

40 citations · 137 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

astro-ph.EP2024

Closeby Habitable Exoplanet Survey (CHES). II. An Observation Strategy for the Target Stars

Dongjie Tan, Jianghui Ji, Chunhui Bao +11

The Closeby Habitable Exoplanet Survey (CHES) constitutes a mission intricately designed to systematically survey approximately 100 solar-type stars located within the immediate pr…

astro-ph.IM2024

Secular aberration drift in stellar proper motions: An additional term due to the change in line-of-sight direction

Niu Liu, Zi Zhu, Jia-Cheng Liu

The motion of the barycenter of the Solar System (SSB), the origin of the International Celestial Reference System, causes a directional displacement known as secular aberration. T…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 4 cited

Systematics of planetary ephemeris reference frames inferred from pulsar timing astrometry

Niu Liu, Ziu Zhu, John Antoniadis +2

This study aims to investigate the systematics in planetary ephemeris reference frames through pulsar timing observations. We used the published data sets from several pulsar timin…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 8 cited

Comparison of dynamical and kinematic reference frames via pulsar positions from timing, Gaia, and interferometric astrometry

Niu Liu, Zi Zhu, John Antoniadis +3

Pulsars are special objects whose positions can be determined independently from timing, radio interferometric, and Gaia astrometry at sub-milliarcsecond (mas) precision; thus, the…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 40 cited

CHES: a space-borne astrometric mission for the detection of habitable planets of the nearby solar-type stars

Jianghui Ji, Haitao Li, Junbo Zhang +19

The Closeby Habitable Exoplanet Survey (CHES) mission is proposed to discover habitable-zone Earth-like planets of the nearby solar-type stars ( away from our…

astro-ph.IM2022

Evaluate the ICRF3 axes stability via extragalactic source position time series

Niu Liu, Sebastien Lambert, Felicitas Arias +2

We present an updated study on assessing the axes stability of the third generation of the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF3) in terms of linear drift and scatter base…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 2 cited

Evaluation of the ICRF stability from position time series analysis

Niu Liu, Sebastien Lambert, Felicitas Arias +2

The celestial reference frame is realized by absolute positions of extragalactic sources that are assumed to be fixed in the space. The fixing of the axes is one of the crucial poi…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 11 cited

Comparison of multifrequency positions of extragalactic sources from global geodetic VLBI monitoring program and Gaia EDR3

Niu Liu, Sebastien Lambert, Patrick Charlot +5

We extend previous works by considering two additional radio frequencies (K band and X/Ka band) with the aim to study the frequency dependence of the source positions and its poten…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 15 cited

Systematics and accuracy of VLBI astrometry: What can be learned from a comparison with Gaia Data Release 2

Niu Liu, Sebastien Lambert, Zi Zhu +1

We aim to investigate the overall properties of the ICRF3 with the help of the Gaia Data release 2 (Gaia DR2). This could serve as an external check of the quality of the ICRF3. Th…

physics.geo-ph2019★ 4 cited

Analyses of celestial pole offsets with VLBI, LLR, and optical observations

Yu-Ting Cheng, Jia-Cheng Liu, Zi Zhu

This work aims to explore the possibilities of determining the long-period part of the precession-nutation of the Earth with techniques other than very long baseline interferometry…

astro-ph.GA2014

Kinematics of Solar neighborhood stars and its dependency on age and metallicity

Zong-Bo Huyan, Zi Zhu, Jia-Cheng Liu

We have constructed a catalog containing best available astrometric, photometric, radial velocity and astrophysical data for mainly F-type and G-type stars (called the Astrometric…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 12 cited

Aberration in proper motions for stars in our Galaxy

Jia-Cheng Liu, Yi Xie, Zi Zhu

Accelerations of both the solar system barycenter (SSB) and stars in the Milky Way cause a systematic observational effect on the stellar proper motions, which was first studied in…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 24 cited

Constructing a Galactic coordinate system based on near-infrared and radio catalogs

Jia-Cheng Liu, Zi Zhu, Bo Hu

The definition of the Galactic coordinate system was announced by the IAU Sub-Commission 33b on behalf of the IAU in 1958. For more than 50 years the definition of the Galactic coo…

astro-ph.GA2010★ 17 cited

Reconsidering the galactic coordinate system

Jia-Cheng Liu, Zi Zhu, Hong Zhang

Initially defined by the IAU in 1958, the galactic coordinate system was thereafter in 1984 transformed from the B1950.0 FK4-based system to the J2000.0 FK5-based system. In 1994,…