Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer: an optical astrometric survey mission
- 28 July 2000
- proceedings article
- Published by SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng
- Vol. 4013, 473-481
- https://doi.org/10.1117/12.394030
Abstract
The Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer (FAME) is a MIDEX class Explorer mission designed to perform an all-sky, astrometric survey with unprecedented accuracy, determining the positions, parallaxes, proper motions, and photometry of 40 million stars. It will create a rigid, astrometric catalog of stars from an input catalog with 5 < mv < 15. For bright stars, 5 < mv < 9, FAME's goal is to determine positions and parallaxes accurate to < 50 (mu) as, with proper motion errors < 50 (mu) as/year. For fainter stars, 9 < mv < 15, FAME's goal is to determine positions and parallaxes accurate to < 500 (mu) as, with proper motion errors < 500 (mu) as/year. It will also collect photometric data on these 40 million stars in four Sloan DSS colors.Keywords
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