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Completeness of USNO-B for High Proper Motion Stars

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I test the completeness of USNO-B detections of high proper motion (μ>180 mas yr^-1) stars and the accuracy of its measurements by comparing them to the revised New Luyten Two-Tenths catalog of Salim & Gould. For 14.5~20 mas yr^-1) may actually have still larger errors than tabulated

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astrometry, methods: statistical

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Andrew Gould, "Completeness of USNO-B for High Proper Motion Stars," The Astronomical Journal 126, no. 1 (2003), doi:10.1086/375755, http://iopscience.iop.org/1538-3881/126/1/472