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The Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer -- Astrometry for the New Millennium

Scott D. Horner, Marvin E. Germain, Thomas P. Greene, Fred H. Harris, Mark S. Johnson, Kenneth J. Johnston, David G. Monet, Marc A. Murison, James D. Phillips, Robert D. Reasenberg, P. Kenneth Seidelmann, Sean E. Urban, Richard H. Vassar

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9907213

Abstract

FAME is designed to perform an all-sky, astrometric survey with unprecedented accuracy. It will create a rigid astrometric catalog of 4x107 stars with 5 < mV < 15. For bright stars, 5 < mV < 9, FAME will determine positions and parallaxes accurate to < 50 microarcseconds, with proper motion errors < 50 microarcseconds/year. For fainter stars, 9 < mV < 15, FAME will determine positions and parallaxes accurate to < 500 microarcseconds, with proper motion errors < 500 microarcseconds/year. It will also collect photometric data on these 4 x 107 stars in four Sloan DSS colors.

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