Transformation of Doppler Shifts to the Solar System Barycenter.
A Thesis written in partial fulfillment of the Master's in Science Degree
at San Francisco State University, by Chris McCarthy.
Abstract
Title Page + Table of Contents
Main Body of this Thesis
Please Note:
Although the prospect of publicly distributing a
set of programs related to barycentric corrections is raised in my
Master's thesis, there is currently no platform-independent public
release of programs I have written.
This is due to the fact that the above mentioned programs are
undergoing developments, which deal with such issues as: Definition of
Timescales, Definition of "Radial Velocity", Implementation of most
recent ephemerides, Utilization of satellite-based astrometric data,
etc. Any papers I contribute to which relate to these developments
will be placed here in the future.
At present, I can recommend the following sources of information which are
relevant in one way or another to barycentric corrections.
-
Efforts by Danis Dravis of Lund observatory to define
``Radial Velocity''
- Website of Alan Irwin,
Univ. Victoria, who has worked extensively on the issue of barycentric
corrections.
- TEMPO, a program used
for pulsar timing.
- JPL's Planetary Ephemeris
- U. S. Naval Observatory.Lots of useful
information about exciting things like Leap Seconds, and the difference between
TAI and UTC. Incidentally the latter site will tell you definitively when the
previous millennium ended, in case this is something you were confused about.
Chris McCarthy
chris@astro.ucla.edu