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Astrometry with A-Track Using Gaia DR1 Catalogue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2018

Yücel Kılıç
Affiliation:
Akdeniz University, Dumlupinar Blv., Campus, 07058, Antalya, Turkey email: yucel.kilic@linux.org.tr
Orhan Erece
Affiliation:
Akdeniz University, Dumlupinar Blv., Campus, 07058, Antalya, Turkey email: yucel.kilic@linux.org.tr
Murat Kaplan
Affiliation:
Akdeniz University, Dumlupinar Blv., Campus, 07058, Antalya, Turkey email: yucel.kilic@linux.org.tr
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Abstract

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In this work, we built all sky index files from Gaia DR1 catalogue for the high-precision astrometric field solution and the precise WCS coordinates of the moving objects. For this, we used build-astrometry-index program as a part of astrometry.net code suit. Additionally, we added astrometry.net's WCS solution tool to our previously developed software which is a fast and robust pipeline for detecting moving objects such as asteroids and comets in sequential FITS images, called A-Track. Moreover, MPC module was added to A-Track. This module is linked to an asteroid database to name the found objects and prepare the MPC file to report the results. After these innovations, we tested a new version of the A-Track code on photometrical data taken by the SI-1100 CCD with 1-meter telescope at TÜBİTAK National Observatory, Antalya. The pipeline can be used to analyse large data archives or daily sequential data. The code is hosted on GitHub under the GNU GPL v3 license.

Type
Contributed Papers
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2018 

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