Paper: astro-ph/0510559
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:32:04 GMT (37kb)

Title: The Geometric Calibration of the Planck satellite using Solar System
Objects

Authors: D. L. Harrison and F. van Leeuwen (IoA, Cambridge)

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication by MNRAS
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The geometric calibration of the Planck satellite using the planetary
transits is investigated, together with the reconstruction of any offsets from
the nominal layout of the focal plane. The methods presented here may be
applied to a single focal plane transit of a planet, to find the values of the
geometric-calibration parameters at the epoch of the transit or all the
transits over the course of the mission. The pointing requirements are easily
met, with the pointing reconstruction being dominated by the errors due to the
star tracker.

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