Star Counts Space Sciences Laboratory星计数空间科学实验室.pptVIP

Star Counts M.Lampton Sept 2002 Updated Sept 2003 Motivation Can SNAP guide itself satisfactorily? Are there enough guide stars? bright enough for low photon shot noise numerous enough so that a reasonable size guider field is 99.99+% certain to get a star Two things cause pointing errors... Previous Work:Secroun et al Experimental Astron. v.12#2 2001 Calculated the expected sensor position errors vs magnitude and integration time centroiding: 2x2, 3x3, 4x4 pixel groups Calculated the Poisson statistics for nominal mean star densities (13V16) at NEP, SEP average star densities from C.W.Allen