Year: 2003
Type: article
Abstract: USNO-B is an all-sky catalog that presents positions, proper motions, magnitudes in various optical passbands, and star/galaxy estimators for 1,042,618,261 objects derived from 3,643,201,733 separate observations. The data were obtained from scans of 7435 Schmidt plates taken for the various sky surveys during the last 50 years. USNO-B1.0 is believed to provide all-sky coverage, completeness down to V = 21, 0 2 astrometric accuracy at J2000, 0.3 mag photometric accuracy in up to five colors, and 85% accuracy for distinguishing stars from nonstellar objects. A brief discussion of various issues is given here, but the actual data are available from the US Naval Observatory Web site and others.
Source: The Astronomical Journal
DOI: 10.1086/345888
Authors: David G. Monet, Stephen E. Levine, Blaise Canzian, Harold D. Ables, Alan R. Bird, Conard C. Dahn, Harry H. Guetter, Hugh C. Harris, Arne A. Henden, Sandy K. Leggett, Harold F. Levison, Christian B. Luginbuhl, Joan Martini, Alice K. B. Monet, Jeffrey A. Munn, Jeffrey R. Pier, Albert R. Rhodes, Betty Riepe, Stephen Sell, Ronald C. Stone, Frederick J. Vrba, Richard L. Walker, Gart Westerhout, Robert J. Brucato, I. Neill Reid, William Schoening, M. Hartley, M. A. Read, S. B. Tritton
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $4,499
Funders: National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, National Geographic Society, Princeton University, California Institute of Technology, University of Washington, Johns Hopkins University, University of Pittsburgh, New Mexico State University, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, European Southern Observatory, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Naval Observatory, Fermilab, Los Alamos National Laboratory
OpenAlex ID: W2162492486