J/other/SoSyR/49.383  Galilean satellites & Jupiter positions (Narizhnaya, 2015)

Observations of the Galilean Satellites of Jupiter with Pulkovo Normal Astrograph during 2009-2011. Narizhnaya N.V. <Solar System Res., 49, 383 (2015)> =2015SoSyR..49..383N 2015SoSyR..49..383N (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
ADC_Keywords: Solar system ; Planets ; Positional data Keywords: Galilean moons of Jupiter - astrometry - CCD observations - exact positions - theory of satellite motion - theory of planets Abstract: For observational period of 2009-2011 we have obtained 140 positions of Galilean satellites and 42 calculated positions of Jupiter in the system of UCAC4 catalogue (ICRS, J2000.0). Accuracy estimation gives error of mean position as 0.02-0.04". The resulting equatorial coordinates satellites were compared with the eight contemporary theories of the motion of planets and satellites. On average, the (O-C) residuals in both coordinates do not exceed 0.08" relative to all theories of motion. Comparison of the calculated equatorial coordinates of Jupiter (were obtained from observations of galilean satellites) with the INPOP10 theory of planetary motion has shown satisfactory results. The average deviations were obtained respectively (O-C)RA=0.040" and (O-C)DE=-0.053". This work was supported by the Program 22 of the Presidium of RAS and RFBR grant (12-02-00675-a). Description: All observations were carried out with the Normal Astrograph (D/F=330mm/ 3467mm) at Pulkovo (code is 084). A S2C CCD camera was used as a detector (with a field of view of 18'x16' and a scale of 0.952"/pixel). The CCD_frames with object image were obtained by series including 5, 10, 50, 100 images, depending on exposures of 60, 30, 10 and 5 s, respectively. The IZMCCD software package developed by Izmailov I.S. (2005, http://iznccd.puldb.ru/ izmccdrus) was used in processing the CCD images. Astrometric reduction algorithm is based on Turner's method with using UCAC4 catalog as reference one. Ephemerides for comparison are given by web-server "Natural Satellites Ephemeride Server MULTI-SAT" developed by N.V. Emelyanov (http://lnfm1.sai.msu.ru/neb/nss/nssephmr.htm). Two catalogue are presented: 140 normal positions of Galilean satellites and 42 Jupiter positions. File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file satsdat.dat 83 140 Positions of Galilean satellites (1-Io, 2- Europa, 3-Ganymede, 4-Callisto) jovedat.dat 62 42 Positions of Jupiter -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: J/A+A/314/312 : Galilean satellites mutual events in 1997 (Arlot 1996) J/A+AS/125/399 : Mutual phenomena of the Galilean satellites (Arlot+ 1997) J/A+A/383/719 : Galilean Satellites mutual events 2002-2003 (Arlot, 2002) J/A+A/493/1171 : Mutual phenomena of Galilean satellites PHEMU03 (Arlot+, 2009) J/A+A/532/A36 : Galilean satellites mutual events in 2009 (Zhang, 2011) J/other/SoSyR/45.523 : Saturnian satellites CCD observations (Grosheva+, 2011) Byte-by-byte Description of file: satsdat.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 I1 --- SatNo [1/4] Identification number of galilean satellite (1) 3- 19 A17 "date" Obs.Date Mean observation date (YYYY/MM/DD.dddddd) 21- 22 I2 h RAh Right ascension (J2000.0) (2) 24- 25 I2 min RAm Right ascension (J2000.0) (2) 27- 32 F6.3 s RAs Right ascension (J2000.0) (2) 34 A1 --- DE- Declination sign (J2000.0) (2) 35- 36 I2 deg DEd Declination (J2000.0) (2) 38- 39 I2 arcmin DEm Declination (J2000.0) (2) 41- 45 F5.2 arcsec DEs Declination (J2000.0) (2) 47- 52 F6.3 arcsec (O-C)RA (O-C) residual in right ascension (3) 54- 59 F6.3 arcsec (O-C)DE (O-C) residual in declination (3) 61- 65 F5.3 arcsec e_(O-C)RA error of mean O-C in right ascension 67- 71 F5.3 arcsec e_(O-C)DE error of mean O-C in declination 73- 77 F5.3 arcsec s_(O-C)RA standard deviation of O-C in right ascension 79- 83 F5.3 arcsec s_(O-C)DE standard deviation of O-C in declination -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): Satellite number as follows: 1 = Io 2 = Europa 3 = Ganymede 4 = Callisto Note (2): topocentric equatorial coordinates of Galilean satellites, J2000.0. Note (3): "Observed-Calculated" residuals by web-sever "MULTI-SAT", calculated from ephemerides within the INPOP10 and V.Lainey-V.2.0|V1.1 theories ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: jovedat.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 4 I4 --- Sats Idenficiation numbers of galilean satellites (1) 6- 22 A17 "date" Obs.Date Mean observation date UTC (YYYY/MM/DD.dddddd) 24- 25 I2 h RAh Jupiter right ascension (J2000.0) (2) 27- 28 I2 min RAm Jupiter right ascension (J2000.0) (2) 30- 35 F6.3 s RAs Jupiter right ascension (J2000.0) (2) 37 A1 --- DE- Jupiter declination sign (J2000.0) (2) 38- 39 I2 deg DEd Jupiter declination (J2000.0) (2) 41- 42 I2 arcmin DEm Jupiter declination (J2000.0) (2) 44- 48 F5.2 arcsec DEs Jupiter declination (J2000.0) (2) 50- 55 F6.3 arcsec (O-C)RA (O-C) residual in right ascension (3) 57- 62 F6.3 arcsec (O-C)DE (O-C) residual in declination (3) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): Identification numbers of satellites which observations were used for deriving positions of Jupiter. Note (2): topocentric positions of Jupiter obtained from observations of galilean satellites and its Jove-centric ephemerides by "MULTI-SAT" service, 2000.0 (http://Infm1.sai.msu.ru/neb/nss/nssephmr.htm) by Emelyanov N.V. Note (3): "Observed-Calculated" residuals by web-sever "MULTI-SAT" (INPOP10). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgements: Natalia Narizhnaya, nnat(at)gao.spb.ru References: Izmailov I.S., Izmccd software for astrometric processing of numerical images of the celestial objects, 2005, http://iznccd.puldb.ru/izmccdrus
(End) Natalia Narizhnaya [GAO, Russia], Patricia Vannier [CDS] 07-Mar-2016
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