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New astrometric reductions of the US Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph
Catalog (UCAC) all-sky observations were performed from first
principles using the TGAS stars in the 8 to 11 magnitude range as
reference star catalog. Significant improvements in the astrometric
solutions were obtained and the UCAC5 catalog of mean positions at a
mean epoch near 2001 was generated. By combining UCAC5 with Gaia DR1
data new proper motions on the Gaia coordinate system for over 107
million stars were obtained with typical accuracies of 1 to 2 mas/yr
(R = 11 to 15 mag), and about 5 mas/yr at 16th mag. Proper motions of
most TGAS stars are improved over their Gaia data and the precision
level of TGAS proper motions is extended to many millions more,
fainter stars.
The database table uses actual NULLs for missing photometry, and all
angular coordinates have been homogenised to degrees.
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@MISC{vo:ucac5_main,
year=2017,
title={The fifth U.S. Naval Observatory {CCD} Astrograph Catalog ({UCAC5})},
author={Zacharias, N. and Finch, C. and Frouard, J.},
url={http://dc.zah.uni-heidelberg.de/tableinfo/ucac5.main},
howpublished={{VO} resource provided by the {GAVO} Data Center}
}
Resource Documentation
UCAC5 Positions
For the UCAC positions given here, no new pixel reductions were performed.
Instead, the object detection results (x,y,mag) of the UCAC4 data were used in
new “plate” reductions after matching with the TGAS stars. New frame-by-frame
solutions were obtained with TGAS instead of Tycho-2 reference stars (as used
in UCAC4). Thus these UCAC5 positions are automatically on the Gaia reference
system. Systematic errors were re-visited and new field-distortion patterns
generated and applied separately for the northern and southern operations. The
pixel-phase error corrections were improved as well.
No changes in the systematic error correction model as function of
magnitude were made. These were obtained from earlier dedicated reductions
with 2MASS stars to allow complete coverage of the UCAC magnitude range.
The TGAS data only reaches to about magnitude 11.5 and is thus not suitable
for a re-evaluation of the systematic errors as a function of magnitude
(the UCAC limiting magnitude is about 16.5).
Nevertheless, residuals of the TGAS solutions were plotted as a function
of magnitude and systematic errors in the accessible magnitude range are
small (order 5 mas or less) for the global averages of all data.
Local sub-sets of the data show somewhat larger systematic errors in
the order of up to 10 mas, as expected from previous UCAC4 results.
A new catalog of UCAC mean positions from these reductions with TGAS
was constructed containing over 180 million entries covering all-sky.
These positions have mean epochs around 1998-2000 in the south, and
around 2001 to 2003 in the north. Formal position errors are about
8 mas around magnitude 11, 20 mas at magnitude 14, and 60 mas at
magnitude 16 (see 2017arXiv170205621Z).
UCAC5 with new proper motions
The Gaia DR1 catalog supplemented by NOMAD proper motions as described
in Step 1 was propagated to epoch 2000, sorted by Dec and then matched
with the TGAS reduced UCAC mean positions as described in Step 2.
Again, a match was assumed if the position difference is less equal
to 1 arcsec in each coordinate. This resulted in 107.7 million stars
in common between the UCAC and Gaia data. New proper motions were
calculated for all those stars based only on the 2 epoch positions with
a mean epoch difference of about 14 years.
For several millions of stars up to about magnitude 14 the errors on
these new proper motions are on the same level as the TGAS proper
motions (1 to 2 mas/yr, see below). This set of UCAC - Gaia matched
stars with new positions and proper motions is called UCAC5.
Formal errors on the new proper motions were calculated by root-square-sum
of a) formal position error of UCAC, b) formal position error of TGAS
(both at their respective mean epochs), and c) a systematic error
contribution of 10 mas at the UCAC epoch data. This RSS value was
then divided by the epoch difference to arrive at the proper motion
errors given in the UCAC5 data files.
Columns
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| Name | Table Head |
Description | Unit | UCD |
|---|
| de_ucac |
UCAC DEC |
mean UCAC Dec at epoch epu on Gaia reference frame
|
deg |
pos.eq.dec |
| dec |
Dec |
Gaia DR1 Declination at epoch J2015.0
|
deg |
pos.eq.dec;meta.main |
| dec_error |
Err. Dec |
Standard error of dec; from Gaia DR1.
|
deg |
stat.error;pos.eq.dec |
| epu |
Epoch |
Mean UCAC epoch (i.e. epoch for ra_ucac and de_ucac)
|
yr |
time.epoch |
| gmag |
m_G |
Gaia DR1 G magnitude
|
mag |
phot.mag;em.opt |
| hmag |
m_H |
2MASS H magnitude (0 and 30 in the source are mapped to NULL)
|
mag |
phot.mag;em.IR.H |
| jmag |
m_J |
2MASS J magnitude (0 and 30 in the source are mapped to NULL)
|
mag |
phot.mag;em.IR.J |
| kmag |
m_K |
2MASS K_s magnitude (0 and 30 in the source are mapped to NULL)
|
mag |
phot.mag;em.IR.K |
| nu1 |
#Img used |
Number of images used for UCAC mean position
|
N/A |
meta.number |
| pmde |
PM Dec |
PM(Dec), computed from UCAC positions and Gaia DR1 positions.
|
deg/yr |
pos.pm;pos.eq.dec |
| pmra |
PM RA |
PM(RA), cos(δ) applied, computed from UCAC and Gaia DR1 positions.
|
deg/yr |
pos.pm;pos.eq.ra |
| ra |
RA |
Gaia DR1 Right Ascension at epoch J2015.0
|
deg |
pos.eq.ra;meta.main |
| ra_error |
Err. RA |
Standard error of ra (with cos δ applied); from Gaia DR1.
|
deg |
stat.error;pos.eq.ra |
| ra_ucac |
UCAC RA |
Mean UCAC RA at epoch epu on Gaia reference frame
|
deg |
pos.eq.ra |
| rmag |
m_R |
NOMAD photographic R mag (0 and 30 in the source are mapped to NULL)
|
mag |
phot.mag;em.opt.R |
| sigpmd |
Err. PM(Dec) |
Standard error of proper motion in Dec
|
deg/yr |
stat.error;pos.pm;pos.eq.dec |
| sigpmr |
Err. PM(RA) |
Standard error of proper motion in RA*cos(Dec)
|
deg/yr |
stat.error;pos.pm;pos.eq.ra |
| source_id |
Source Id |
Gaia source ID
|
N/A |
meta.id;meta.main |
| srcflags |
Src flags |
Source for the star: 1 = TGAS, 2 = other UCAC-Gaia star, 3 = other NOMAD
|
N/A |
meta.code |
| umag |
m_V |
Mean UCAC model magnitude (20 in the source is mapped to NULL)
|
mag |
phot.mag;em.opt.V |
Columns that are parts of indices are marked
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