Between September
2000 and October 2005, I have been working on the
FAME, AMEX and OBSS projects at the US Naval Observatory .
During this period, I worked on many
aspects of astrometric and photometric surveys of the Galaxy and the
Local Group. Most (25) of the resulting technical memoranda are listed
below. None of these memos have been officially
published.
Some Posible Science with OBSS ( April 2005, pdf )
Observing Modes for OBSS/B ( May 2005, pdf )
The Astrometric Potential of Photon Counting Devices ( March 2005, pdf )
GAPS: A Galactic Astrophysics Photometric Survey ( February 2005, pdf )
Radial Velocity Requirements for OBSS/GAIA ( February 2005, pdf )
"Bright" Science with OBSS ( December 2004, pdf )
Astrometric Detection of Cold Jupiters: OBSS versus
GAIA ( December 2004, pdf )
Date Rate, S/N & Spectroscopy for the OBSS-A/B/C and
GAIA Concepts ( October 2004, pdf )
OBSS/A & NASA's Origin's Research Topics:
A Detailed Comparison ( April 2004, pdf )
NEAR detection & Characterization by OBSS
( March 2004, pdf )
Science Requirements & Instrument Design(s) for OBSS-A/B
( January 2004, pdf )
Connecting the Physics of Stars, Galaxies and the
Universe ( FAME Astrometry,
Photometry and NASA's Research Themes (2003, pdf) )
Evaluating the USNO-Flagstaff DISPIs
(
FTM2003-02 (pdf)
)
DISPIs and/or Filters for AMEX
(
FTM2003-01 (pdf)
)
Space Astrometry: Capabilities at the SMEX, MIDEX, and DISCOVERY Class Levels
(
(2002, pdf)
)
More on FAME's Stray Light Events
(
(2001, pdf)
)
Some Centroiding and A/D-conversion Results
(
(2001, pdf)
)
Photometric Parallaxes
(
FTM2001-15 (ps)
(pdf)
)
Astrometric & PhotometricAccuracy for the Descoped FAME (
FTM2001-14.pdf
)
Two Dimensional sinc^2 PSFs for FAME:
Centroiding Precision along the Cross-Scan Diffraction Ridge
(
FTM2001-11.pdf
)
Intermediate-Band Photometric Systems for FAME
(
Talk at GAIA/Vilnius Meeting (2001)
A Proposal For Additional Photometric Bands II
(
FTM2001-07 (ps)
(pdf)
)
A Proposal For Additional Photometric Bands I
(
FTM2001-03 (ps)
(pdf)
)
Stray-light effects on the astrometric and photometric accuracy
(
FTM2000-18 (ps)
(pdf)
)
The Star Transit Rate
(
FTM2000-15 (ps)
(pdf)
)
Last Modified: 7 December 2007