Gaia Early Data Release 3 Acceleration of the Solar System from Gaia astrometry

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TitreGaia Early Data Release 3 Acceleration of the Solar System from Gaia astrometry
Type de publicationJournal Article
Year of Publication2021
AuteursKlioner S.A, Mignard F., Lindegren L., Bastian U., McMillan P.J, Hernandez J., Hobbs D., Ramos-Lerate M., Biermann M., Bombrun A. et al.
JournalASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Volume649
PaginationA9
Date PublishedAPR 28
Type of ArticleArticle
ISSN0004-6361
Mots-clésastrometry, Galaxy, kinematics and dynamics, methods: data analysis, proper motions, reference systems
Résumé

{Context. Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3) provides accurate astrometry for about 1.6 million compact (QSO-like) extragalactic sources, 1.2 million of which have the best-quality five-parameter astrometric solutions. Aims. The proper motions of QSO-like sources are used to reveal a systematic pattern due to the acceleration of the solar systembarycentre with respect to the rest frame of the Universe. Apart from being an important scientific result by itself, the acceleration measured in this way is a good quality indicator of the Gaia astrometric solution. Methods. Theeffect of the acceleration was obtained as a part of the general expansion of the vector field of proper motions in vector spherical harmonics (VSH). Various versions of the VSH fit and various subsets of the sources were tried and compared to get the most consistent result and a realistic estimate of its uncertainty. Additional tests with the Gaia astrometric solution were used to get a better idea of the possible systematic errors in the estimate. Results. Our best estimate of the acceleration based on Gaia EDR3 is (2.32 +/- 0.16) x 10(-10) m s(-2) (or 7.33 +/- 0.51 km s(-1) Myr-1) towards alpha = 269.1 degrees +/- 5.4 degrees

DOI10.1051/0004-6361/202039734