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Astrometry

Group coordinator: Damien Ségransan, Damien.Segransan§obs.unige.ch

Members:
- Fabien Malbet, Fabien.Malbet§obs.ujf-grenoble.fr
- Petro Lazorenko, laz§MAO.Kiev.UA
- Sabine Reffert, sreffert§lsw.uni-heidelberg.de
- Alessandro Sozzetti, sozzetti§oato.inaf.it
- Nick Elias, n.elias§lsw.uni-heidelberg.de
- Ralf Launhardt, rl§mpia-hd.mpg.de
- Matthew Muterspaugh, matthew1§ssl.berkeley.edu
- Gerard van Belle, gerard.van.belle§eso.org
- Andreas Quirrenbach, A.Quirrenbach§lsw.uni-heidelberg.de
- Francoise Delplanck, fdelplan§eso.org

This section's articles


GAIA : A complete census of gas giants in the solar vicinity (Astrometry)

Sunday 16 November 2008 by Damien Ségransan
The official site of the ESA GAIA mission can be found at http://gaia.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=26.
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ESPRI : detecting gas giants around stars of differents masses and ages with the narrow angle astrometric mode of the VLTI (Astrometry)

Sunday 16 November 2008 by Damien Ségransan
The official web page of the PRIMA project at ESO is http://www.eso.org/projects/vlti/instru/prima/index_prima.html Information about the Differential Delay Line (DDL) project for PRIMA can be found at http://obswww.unige.ch/Instruments/PRIMA/ Information about the Exoplanet Search with PRIma (...)
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SIM-Light : Identifying Earth-like planet in the habitable zone (Astrometry)

Sunday 16 November 2008 by Damien Ségransan
The official NASA-JPL web site of the Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) can be found at : http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/SIM/sim_AstroIndex.cfm
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Another definition from wikipedia (Astrometry)

Tuesday 4 March 2008 by flo
is the branch of astronomy that relates to precise measurements and explanations of the positions and movements of stars and other celestial bodies. Although once thought of as an esoteric field with little useful application for the future, the information obtained by astrometric measurements (...)
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