Brian D. Mason
University of Texas at Austin
13 Papers
58 Citations
Brian D. Mason is an academic researcher from University of Texas at Austin. The author has contributed to research in topics: Astrometry & Stars. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 13 publications.
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Papers
The Third US Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC3)
Norbert Zacharias,C. T. Finch,Terrence M. Girard,Nigel Hambly,G. Wycoff,M. Zacharias,D. Castillo,T. Corbin,M. Divittorio,Sumit Dutta,Ralph A. Gaume,S. Gauss,M. E. Germain,D. M. Hall,W. I. Hartkopf,D. Hsu,E. R. Holdenried,Valeri V. Makarov,M. Martines,Brian D. Mason,David G. Monet,Ted Rafferty,A. Rhodes,T. Siemers,Daniel J. Smith,Trudy Tilleman,S. Urban,G. Wieder,L. Winter,André Young +29 more
TL;DR: The second US Naval Observatory (USNO) CCD Astrograph catalog, UCAC2, was released in 2003 July as mentioned in this paper, covering the sky area from -90° to +40° declination, going up to +52° in some areas.
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The Third US Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC3)
Norbert Zacharias,C. T. Finch,Terrence M. Girard,Nigel Hambly,G. Wycoff,M. Zacharias,D. Castillo,T. Corbin,M. Divittorio,Sumit Dutta,Ralph A. Gaume,S. Gauss,M. E. Germain,D. M. Hall,W. I. Hartkopf,D. Hsu,E. R. Holdenried,Valeri V. Makarov,M. Martines,Brian D. Mason,David G. Monet,Ted Rafferty,A. Rhodes,T. Siemers,Daniel J. Smith,Trudy Tilleman,S. Urban,G. Wieder,L. Winter,André Young +29 more
TL;DR: The third US Naval Observatory (USNO) CCD Astrograph catalog, UCAC3, was released at the IAU General Assembly on 2009 August 10 as discussed by the authors, containing just over 100 million objects, about 95 million of them with proper motions.
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The Tycho Double Star Catalogue
C. Fabricius,Erik Høg,Valeri V. Makarov,Valeri V. Makarov,Brian D. Mason,Gary L. Wycoff,S. E. Urban +6 more
TL;DR: The Tycho Double Star Catalogue (TDSC) as mentioned in this paper is a catalogue of absolute astrometry and B T, V T photometry for 66219 components of 32631 double and multiple star systems.
A Report on the Observation of Selected Binary Stars with Ephemerides in the Sixth Catalog of Orbits of Visual Binary Stars
James A. Daley,Iliana Rosado-de Jesus,Desiree Cotto,Valmin Miranda,Chaim Martinez,Diana Centeno,Francisco Rica Romero,E. O. Wiley,Morgan Spangle,Andrew M. Soon,Dave Arnold,Brian D. Mason,William I. Hartkopf +12 more
- 01 Oct 2006
TL;DR: In this article, the authors observed nine binary stars with ephemerides on the Sixth Catalog of Orbits of Visual Binary Stars with the objective of corroborating the predictions on the Catalog.
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Double stars in the tycho-2 catalogue
Brian D. Mason,Gary L. Wycoff,S. E. Urban,William I. Hartkopf,E. R. Holdenried,Valeri V. Makarov +5 more
TL;DR: The Tycho-2 Catalogue provides a wealth of double-star data as mentioned in this paper, including 6251 known double stars and 1234 new double star systems (designated in the Washington Double Star Catalog (WDS) with a TDS discovery code).
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