Author:
Thuillot William,Stavinschi Magdalena,Andrei Alexander H.,Arlot Jean-Eudes,Assafin Marcelo,Bazey N.,Gontcharov George A.,Gumerov Rustem,Wenjing Jin,Haro Jose L. Muinos,Niarchos Panayiotis,Osório Jose Pereira,Pascu Dan,Pauwels Thierry,Pinigin Gennadiy I.,Prostyuk Y.,Pugliano A.,Rafferty Theodore J.,Russell Jane L.,Rylkov Vladimir V.,Sanchez M. Luisa,Shulga Alexander A.,Souchay Jean,Tang Zhenghong,Teixeira Ramachrisna,Upgren Arthur R.,van Altena William F.,Martins Roberto Vieira,Zacharias Norbert
Abstract
At the IAU XXVI General Assembly in 2006, the Division I decided to create the Working Group on Astrometry by Small Ground-Based Telescopes (WG-ASGBT). Its scientic goals are to foster the follow-up of small bodies detected by the large surveys including the NEOs; to set-up a dedicated observation network for the follow-up of objects which will be detected by Gaia; to contribute to the observation campaigns of the mutual events of natural satellites, stellar occultations, and binary asteroids; and to encourage teaching astrometry for the next generation. The present report gives the main activities carried out in these areas with small telescopes (diameter less than 2m).
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Astronomy and Astrophysics,Space and Planetary Science