萊納特·林德格倫

倫納特·林德格倫
出生1950
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知名于高精度視差採集衛星和蓋亞任務太空望遠鏡
奖项ESA 科学奖章主任 (1999)
瑞典皇家科学院院士（2010）
巴黎天文台名誉博士 (2011)
邵逸夫奖 (2022)
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科学生涯
研究领域天文
机构隆德天文台、隆德大學
博士導師Tord Elvius, Erik Høg
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倫納特·林德格倫（瑞典語：Lennart Lindegren，1950年—）是瑞典隆德天文台工作人員。他在高精度視差採集衛星和蓋亞任務太空望遠鏡有重大貢獻。

倫納特·林德格倫在1980年獲得博士學位，2000年成為天文學正教授。[1]

空間天體測量及其各種應用一直是他的主要關注點。

高精度視差採集衛星

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During the early studies of ESA's Hipparcos space astrometry mission, and while still a graduate student in 1976, he was "recruited" to the project by Erik Høg and thereafter played a crucial role in various aspects of the mission definition and in the data analysis. He set out the overall principles of the astrometric data reduction aiming to combine and solve together the attitude, the system and the astrometric parameters of the stars. This crucial '3-step procedure' was used successfully by the two consortia (NDAC and FAST) later entrusted by ESA with the Hipparcos data processing.

The principle of reconstructing space astrometric positions from one-dimensional observations carried out in the innovative Hipparcos sky scanning mode was fully original (and frequently questioned outside the project), and at the very limit of available computational power even by the end of the mission in 1997. The numerical principles had to be demonstrated, together with the solution’s statistical properties. Already by the end of 1976, Lindegren had produced a set of definitive technical notes and simulations showing how to obtain a 'rigid sphere' with all astrometric parameters from a scanning satellite. Innovation, efficiency, completeness, clarity, and mathematical rigour have been the hallmarks of his many and varied fundamental contributions to space astrometry since that time.

From 1990 Lennart Lindegren led the Consortium NDAC (Northern Data Analysis Consortium) sharing with FAST (led by Jean Kovalevsky) the data processing of Hipparcos.[2] In addition to the overall scientific coordinating responsibilities, he developed many of the approaches and algorithms related to the mission: his innovation, insight, and mathematical rigour impacted the optical and focal plane design, the instrument calibration, the scanning law, the attitude determination (and the associated 'dynamical smoothing'), the double star analysis (as observed via a signal modulated by a grid), the effects of chromaticity and thermal load fluctuations, the optimum combination of the NDAC and FAST catalogue solutions, and the link to an extragalactic reference frame.

He was member of ESA's Hipparcos Science Team for the entire duration of the project (1976–1997).

Erik Høg has written:[3] "A new era of my life began on 1 September 1973 when I returned to Denmark with my family of five, after 15 years in Hamburg. I had obtained a tenure at the Copenhagen University where I was going to work on the construction of automatic control of the meridian circle in Brorfelde. Very soon, however, I heard of a young student at Lund Observatory who worked alone on modernizing the old meridian circle there. I went to Lund and 'found' Lennart. A few years later, Andrew Murray, my old colleague and member of the Hipparcos science team, would say: 'Erik, the best you have ever done for astronomy was to find Lennart!' and I agreed". Later Høg writes: "Of his numerous papers I will only mention two. He wrote a paper on 'Photoelectric astrometry',[4] a subject I had proposed, where he systematically discussed the performance of methods for precise image location from observations. It remains a classical paper. The second paper to mention is about the rigidity of the celestial coordinate system obtained by the one-dimensional observations in a scanning satellite as TYCHO/Option A/Hipparcos. The question was asked in 1976 as mentioned above, but it took years before we had the answer which was affirmative. The study was led by Lennart and contains his brilliant mathematical analysis of the simulations, but he modestly left the position as first author to another person."[5]

蓋亞任務太空望遠鏡

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Before the Hipparcos Catalogue was published, he was the first (with Michael Perryman), to set forth a new proposal for a more ambitious mission in terms of accuracy and sensitivity, resting on the same fundamental principles as Hipparcos.[6] This was initially Roemer, and finally Gaia, eventually selected by ESA in 2000 (for a projected launch in 2012), and actually launched in December 2013.[7] Again, Lennart Lindegren was instrumental in the initial design of what was in the early phase an interferometer and in the assessment of the astrometric accuracy achievable. He also led the detailed design of the overall scheme of the astrometric solution, being a block iterative adjustment determining the attitude, the calibration and the system directly from the CCD images.[8] This Astrometric Global Iterative Solution (AGIS) is now fully operational within the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC).

Lindegren was a member of the ESA Gaia Science Advisory Group before mission selection, and the Gaia Science Team since selection in 2000.[9]

Within the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC), Lindegren leads the scientific implementation of the Astrometric Global Iterative Solution, a core element in the astrometric processing of the Gaia data. Between 2006–2010 he was project coordinator for the Marie Curie Research Training Network ELSA (European Leadership in Space Astrometry), aiming to develop the science of space astrometry and train the next generation of researchers in this area.[10] Since 2010 he has served on the committee of the European Science Foundation's Research Networking Programme 'GREAT' (Gaia Research for European Astronomy Training).

出版物

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Lindegren's publications include more than 90 refereed papers on astrometry, reference frames, data processing, spectroscopy and instrument design. Besides those in space astrometry, a frequently cited paper deals with solar physics and the role of convection on the line profile,[11] and another considers in a very general way the atmospheric limitations on small-field astrometry.[12] He is a co-author of the canonical paper on the IAU 2000 'Resolutions for Astrometry, Celestial Mechanics, and Metrology in the Relativistic Framework'.[13]

Crucially, the bulk of his contributions to space astrometry has been in the form of a series of unpublished technical notes for Hipparcos and Gaia, amounting to some 200 documents totalling around 3000 pages. Timely, meticulous, rigorous, and often the final word on a given topic, they have been of immense value to the development and definition of these two projects. In addition to the mathematical principles they frequently include working algorithms (often with source code when relevant). Amongst them are, for Hipparcos, the three-step astrometric reduction, optimization of the scanning law, notes on the imaging properties used for the multiple star analysis, assessment of chromatic effects, attitude developments, and many others.

For Gaia, his technical notes cover the mathematical and statistical aspects of the Gaia instrument and processing (including the attitude determination and its mathematical representation with quaternions and splines), the modelling of the point/line spread functions, the CCD geometric calibrations, broad band photometry design, maximum likelihood determination of the CCD image centroiding, differential equations and optimal properties of the scanning law, along with the subtle systematic effects in astrometry caused by instrumental misalignments. All these important results that led to developments in the on-board metrology or to fundamental implementations in the processing, have appeared only in the form of technical notes, and therefore remain largely unknown outside of the Hipparcos and Gaia groups.

獎項

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1999 年 5 月 19 日，林德格伦因其在 ESA 科学任务中的非凡努力而被授予ESA的科学总监奖章。在瑞士伯尔尼举行的仪式上，前四枚奖章颁发给了 Hipparcos 任务的科学联盟领导人：来自法国的 Catherine Turon 和 吉恩·科瓦莱夫斯基 (Jean Kovalevsky)、来自瑞典的 伦莱纳特·林德格伦 和来自丹麦的 Erik Høg。[14] 2009年，林德格伦被选为瑞典皇家科学院院士。[15] 2011 年，他被巴黎天文台授予荣誉博士学位，以表彰他 30 多年来对空间天体测量的基本贡献。 2022年，他与迈克尔·佩里曼共同获得了天文学邵逸夫奖。[16]

參考

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  1. ^ Official webpage （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） of Lennart Lindegren at Lund Observatory website.
  2. ^ Members （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） of the ESA's Hipparcos Science Team
  3. ^ Lennart Lindegren’s first years with Hipparcos （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）, Contribution to the history of astrometry No. 2
  4. ^ Photoelectric astrometry: a comparison of methods for precise image location
  5. ^ Derivation of positions and parallaxes from simulated observations with a scanning astrometry satellite
  6. ^ Gaia: global astrometric interferometer for astrophysics
  7. ^ ESA Gaia www site. [2022-05-29]. （原始内容存档于2019-09-02）. 
  8. ^ The astrometric core solution for the Gaia mission: overview of models, algorithms, and software implementation. [2022-05-29]. （原始内容存档于2019-09-22）. 
  9. ^ Gaia People （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） of the ESA's web site for the Gaia scientific community
  10. ^ ELSA （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） official website
  11. ^ The fundamental definition of radial velocity
  12. ^ Atmospheric limitations of narrow-field optical astrometry
  13. ^ The IAU 2000 Resolutions for Astrometry, Celestial Mechanics, and Metrology in the Relativistic Framework: Explanatory Supplement
  14. ^ ESA's Director of Science Medal
  15. ^ KVA Members （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  16. ^ Shaw Prize. [2022-05-29]. （原始内容存档于2022-05-25）.