fk425 - convert ra, dec columns from fk4 to fk5 with proper motion,

paralax and recession velocity.

SYNOPSYS

    fk425 [-i ifile] [-o ofile] rcol dcol [rdcol] [ddcol] [pcol] [vcol]

Convert B1950.0 FK4 star data to J2000.0 FK5.

This routine converts stars from the old, Bessel-Newcomb, FK4 system to the new, IAU 1976, FK5, Fricke system. The precepts of Smith et al (Ref 1) are followed, using the implementation by Yallop et al (Ref 2) of a matrix method due to Standish. Kinoshita's development of Andoyer's post-Newcomb precession is used. The numerical constants from Seidelmann et al (Ref 3) are used canonically.

The proper motions in RA are dRA/dt rather than cos(Dec)*dRA/dt, and are per year rather than per century.

Note that conversion from Julian epoch 2000.0 to Besselian epoch 1950.0 only is provided for. Conversions involving other epochs will require use of the appropriate precession, proper motion, and E-terms routines before and/or after FK524 is called.

In the FK4 catalogue the proper motions of stars within 10 degrees of the poles do not embody the differential E-term effect and should, strictly speaking, be handled in a different manner from stars outside these regions. However, given the general lack of homogeneity of the star data available for routine astrometry, the difficulties of handling positions that may have been determined from astrometric fields spanning the polar and non-polar regions, the likelihood that the differential E-terms effect was not taken into account when allowing for proper motion in past astrometry, and the undesirability of a discontinuity in the algorithm, the decision has been made in this routine to include the effect of differential E-terms on the proper motions for all stars, whether polar or not. At epoch 2000, and measuring on the sky rather than in terms of dRA, the errors resulting from this simplification are less than 1 milliarcsecond in position and 1 milliarcsecond per century in proper motion.

See slaFk425

OPTIONS

• -i file Read input from file instead of the standard input.
• -o file Write output to file instead of the standard output.

• rcol

  The column name of the ra column defaults to "ra". The column should contain RA coordinate values in hours.

• dcol

  The column name of the dec column defaults to "dec". The column should contain Dec coordinate values in degrees.

• drcol - proper motion rad/Jul.yr
• ddcol - proper motion rad/Jul.yr
• pcol - parallax (arcsec)
• vcol - radial velocity (km/s, +ve = moving away)

• fk45z - convert ra, dec columns from fk4 to fk5 assuming zero proper motion.
• fk54z - convert ra, dec columns from fk5 to fk4 assuming zero proper motion.
• fk524 - convert ra, dec columns from fk5 to fk4 with proper motion, paralax and recession velocity.
• precess - Precess the ra and dec columns from one equinox to another.

• starbase.1 starbase data table introduction.
• starbase.3 starbase data table C library.
• starbase.5 starbase data table file format.