Characterizing and correcting the proper motion bias of the bright Gaia EDR3 sources
In this paper, we characterize magnitude-dependent systematics in the proper motions of the Gaia EDR3 catalog and provide a prescription for their removal. The reference frame of bright stars (G ≲ 13) in EDR3 is known to rotate with respect to extragalactic objects, but this rotation has proven diff...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/254956 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/254956 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Astrometry Proper motions Methods: data analysis Methods: statistical |
| Sumario: | In this paper, we characterize magnitude-dependent systematics in the proper motions of the Gaia EDR3 catalog and provide a prescription for their removal. The reference frame of bright stars (G ≲ 13) in EDR3 is known to rotate with respect to extragalactic objects, but this rotation has proven difficult to characterize and correct. We employ a sample of binary stars and a sample of open cluster members to characterize this proper motion bias as a magnitude-dependent spin of the reference frame. We show that the bias varies with G magnitude, reaching up to 80 μas yr-1 for sources in the range G = 11-13, several times the formal EDR3 proper motion uncertainties. We also show evidence for an additional dependence on the color of the source, with a magnitude up to ~10 μas yr-1. However, a color correction proportional to the effective wavenumber is unsatisfactory for very red or very blue stars, and we do not recommend its use. We provide a recipe for a magnitude-dependent correction to align the proper motion of the Gaia EDR3 sources brighter than G = 13 with the International Celestial Reference Frame. |
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