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The HIPPARCOS Satellite, to be launched by the European Space Agency, will provide a stellar reference frame over the whole celestial sphere with an average accuracy of ± 0.002 in each coordinate and component of annual proper motion, for some 100,000 stars.
The origin of coordinates will be arbitrary. Absolute rotation of the system of proper motions can be obtained by measuring quasars relative to stars in the HIPPARCOS catalogue, either with the NASA Space Telescope or by conventional ground based astrometric observations.
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European Space Agency 1979a HIPPARCOS. Space Astrometry. Report on Phase A Study (SC1 (79) 10)
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van Altena, W. F. 1979 IAU Colloquium No 48. “Modern Astrometry” (eds. F. V. Prochazka and R. H. Tucker, Vienna), pp.561-571
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Murray, C.A. (1981). The Stellar Reference Frame from Space Observations. In: Gaposchkin, E.M., Kołaczek, B. (eds) Reference Coordinate Systems for Earth Dynamics. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 86. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8456-1_42
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