Table of Contents

to the Hipparcos Mission.- The Hipparcos Mission.- Hipparcos Astrometry.- Exploring the Hipparcos Astrometric Data.- Individual, Single Stars.- The Astrometric Data for Composite Images and Orbital Binaries.- Groups of Single Stars.- Kinematics of the Solar Neighbourhood.- A Description of the Contents and Peculiarities of the Hipparcos Photometric Data.- The Photometric Data.- Hipparcos Attitude Modelling.- A Free-Floating Rigid Body in Space.- The Torques on Hipparcos As Observed Over the Mission.- Fully-Dynamic Attitude Fitting.- Summary of Selected Spacecraft and Payload Calibration Results.- The Mission Timeline.- Payload Calibrations.- Spacecraft-Parameter Calibrations.- The Next Generation.- Gaia.

Reviews

From the reviews:"For astronomers, ‘Hipparcos - The New Reduction of the Raw Data’ promises to open up a new chapter in the study of the age, size and properties of stars, helping them to tackle fundamental questions about the origins of the universe with greater precision than before. … In some cases, its contents are up to five times more accurate than the previous guide, offering scholars what in astronomical terms is the closest they can get to pinpoint accuracy." (John Rowlands, www.physorg.com, September, 2007)