hsoy, "Hot stuff for one year", is a project to combine PPMXL, SuperCOSMOS, and the Gaia DR1 source list to provide a catalog that gives nice and good astrometry for the year until Gaia's second data release. Sigfried Röser derived the equations to include this other position; this is essentially algebra starting from eqs. 1 and 2 of the PPMXL paper. The late development of this was a bit rough, and what's documented in the RD doesn't quite match the catalog (e.g., some ra<0 were fixed manually). If you need to re-import this, start from the dump. In other words: Don't use the data items in here any more. Informationally, here's what the provenance looked like until svn rev. 6098, when importing was switched to using the dump: Usually dropped helper tableA table containing PPMXL positions and proper motions, with those objects filtered out that SuperCOSMOS didn't find with their source extraction. This means that most spurious detections are removed.
Usually dropped helper table raj2000, dej2000 q3c_ang2ipix(raj2000, dej2000)
A table with positions and proper motions resulting from a combination of ppmxl with gaia DR1. Note that the column descriptions may not be accurate here. Usually dropped helper table During the construction of USNO-B, numerous observations were not matched properly. As a result, at least 10% of USNO-B objects are spurious. Most of these carried over into PPMXL. Since many of these objects have completely errneous proper motions, much fewer will be in HSOY. However, they are present, and they are characterised by multiple PPMXL objects being matched to one Gaia object. Since PPMXL's resolution is much worse than Gaia's, these will almost always be spurious; also, since the Gaia position is fixed in both solutions, their paths will cross fairly near to J2015.0.
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