BRITE (BRIght Target Explorer) Constellation is a space astronomy mission to collect high-quality, time-dependent, dual-filter, optical photometry of bright stars with a set of nanosatellites, operated simultaneously by an international team of scientists and engineers. The scientific strength of BRITE Constellation is the ability to monitor at high photometric precision many of the apparently brightest stars in the night sky with sampling comparable to a BRITE nanosatellite orbital period (~100 minutes) for months or even years.
Data archive
1. open file BRITE_decor_lc_20230520.xls
2. filter by column D "Star [HD]" and choose star you are interested in
3. copy links from column G "Link to public decorrelated lc archive (public server)" to file_list.txt and save file
4. open terminal, cd to folder where list was created and run in terminal: wget -i file_list.txt
News 2025-02-25
BRITE Catalogue paper I
The appendix of the BRITE Catalogue paper I is available now. The appendix contains the stars observed by BRITE-Constellation in fields 1 to 14 and the qualitative description of the individual data sets. It include a description of the format of the BRITE-Constellation data in the archives, plots of the data quality per satellite, and maps of the fields addressed in the publication,BRITE_Catalogue_Paper_I_Appendix.pdf Fields 1 to 14: Table of targets, description of the data and their quality, and field maps.
List of decorrelated files can be found in left menu and in fileBRITE_decor_lc_20230520.xls