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Data Set Overview
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This shape model of Tethys is based on 814 Cassini ISSNA and 6 Cassini ISSWA
images taken in the years 2004-2010.
Coordinate system:
BODY603_POLE_RA = ( 40.66 -0.036 0. )
BODY603_POLE_DEC = ( +83.52 -0.004 0. )
BODY603_PM = ( 10.45 +190.6979085 0. )
BODY603_LONG_AXIS = ( 0. )
BODY603_NUT_PREC_RA = ( 0. 0. 0. +9.66 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. )
BODY603_NUT_PREC_DEC = ( 0. 0. 0. -1.09 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. )
BODY603_NUT_PREC_PM = ( 0. 0. 0. -9.60 +2.23 0. 0. 0. 0. )
(For help in interpreting the values of the SPICE assignments above, see the
document 'PCK Required Reading' (PCK.REQ), available at NAIF and in the
document directory of this data set.)
The parameters of the model are as follows:
Number of landmarks: 2457
RMS position uncertainty: 313 m/dof (degree of freedom)
Pointing uncertainty: .431 mrad
Pointing residual: .211 mrad
Number of observations: 150361
Observations per landmark: 61.2
RMS landmark location residual: 618 m/dof
The models were originally prepared in the Implicitly Connected
Quadrilateral (ICQ) format. Vertex-facet format versions, derived from the
ICQ versions, are also provided. The filenames are tethys_quad512q.tab and
tethys_ver512q.tab, where 512 is the value of Q (an indicator of the
resolution). Files with three selections of lower resolution are also
provided for each format, with similar filenames but lower values of q.
The file 'tethysimagelist.tab' is a list of the Cassini ISSNA and ISSWA
images used to generate this model. These images are archived in PDS under
the data set ID CO-S-ISSNA/ISSWA-2-EDR-V1.0.
A text file, 'icqmodel.asc' is provided in the 'document' directory which
describes the ICQ format and the derivation of the vertex-facet versions.
For additional information about the shape models, see Gaskell et al.
(2008).
References
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Gaskell, R.W., O.S. Barnouin-Jha, D.J. Scheeres, A.S. Konopliv, T. Mukai, S.
Abe, J. Saito, M. Ishiguro, T. Kubota, T. Hashimoto, J. Kawaguchi, M.
Yoshikawa, K. Shirakawa, T. Kominato, N. Hirata, and H. Demura,
Characterizing and navigating small bodies with imaging data, Meteoritics
and Planetary Science, vol. 43, Issue 6, p. 1049-1061, 2008.
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