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Quasi-automatic software support for Gaia ground based optical tracking
S. Bouquillon, C. Barache, T. Carlucci +6
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 bas…
GBOT: ground based optical tracking of the Gaia satellite
Martin Altmann, Sebastien Bouquillon, Francois Taris +6
Gaia, the 1 billion star, high precision, astrometric satellite will revolutionise our understanding in many areas of astronomy ranging from bodies in our Solar System to the forma…
Gaia Data Release 2. Calibration and mitigation of electronic offset effects in the data
N. C. Hambly, M. Cropper, S. Boudreault +30
The European Space Agency Gaia satellite was launched into orbit around L2 in December 2013. This ambitious mission has strict requirements on residual systematic errors resulting…
Lessons learned from the TMT site testing campaign
T. Travouillon, S. G. Els, R. L. Riddle +2
After a site testing campaign spanning 5 sites over a period of 5 years, the site selection for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) culminated with the choice of Mauna Kea 13N in Hawa…
Thirty Meter Telescope Site Testing I: Overview
M. Schoeck, S. Els, R. Riddle +15
As part of the conceptual and preliminary design processes of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), the TMT site testing team has spent the last five years measuring the atmospheric pr…