Mutual occultations and eclipses of the Galilean satellites of Jupiter in 2002-2003: final astrometric results

Nikolai V. Emelyanov (1, 2, 3)

1 SSIA - Shternberg State Institute of Astronomy
2 IMCCE - Institut de Mécanique Céleste et de Calcul des Ephémérides
3 GAP - Groupe Astrométrie et Planétologie

The photometry of mutual occultations and eclipses of natural planetary satellites can be used to infer very accurate astrometric data. This can be achieved by processing the light curves of the satellites observed during international campaigns of photometric observations of these mutual events.

Domaines: Astrophysique [astro-ph]

Nikolai V. Emelyanov. Mutual occultations and eclipses of the Galilean satellites of Jupiter in 2002-2003: final astrometric results. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2009, 394, pp.1037-1044. ⟨10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14398.x⟩. ⟨hal-03732420⟩