Instrumental Methods for Professional and Amateur Collaborations in Planetary Astronomy
Abstract
Amateur contributions to professional publications have increased exponentially over the last decades in the field of Planetary Astronomy. Here we review the different domains of the field in which collaborations between professional and amateur astronomers are effective and regularly lead to scientific publications. We discuss the instruments, detectors, softwares and methodologies typically used by amateur astronomers to collect the scientific data in the different domains of interest. Amateur contributions to the monitoring of planets and interplanetary matter, characterization of asteroids and comets, as well as the determination of the physical properties of Kuiper Belt Objects and exoplanets are discussed.
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@article{arxiv.1305.3647,
title = {Instrumental Methods for Professional and Amateur Collaborations in Planetary Astronomy},
author = {O. Mousis and R. Hueso and J. -P. Beaulieu and S. Bouley and B. Carry and F. Colas and A. Klotz and C. Pellier and J. -M. Petit and P. Rousselot and M. Ali Dib and W. Beisker and M. Birlan and C. Buil and A. Delsanti and E. Frappa and H. B. Hammel and A. -C. Levasseur-Regourd and G. S. Orton and A. Sanchez-Lavega and A. Santerne and P. Tanga and J. Vaubaillon and B. Zanda and D. Baratoux and T. Boehm and V. Boudon and A. Bouquet and L. Buzzi and J. -L. Dauvergne and A. Decock and M. Delcroix and P. Drossart and N. Esseiva and G. Fischer and L. N. Fletcher and S. Foglia and J. M. Gomez-Forrellad and J. Guarro-Flo and D. Herald and E. Jehin and F. Kugel and J. -P. Lebreton and J. Lecacheux and A. Leroy and L. Maquet and G. Masi and A. Maury and F. Meyer and S. Pérez-Hoyos and A. S. Rajpurohit and C. Rinner and J. H. Rogers and F. Roques and R. W. Schmude, and B. Sicardy and B. Tregon and M. Vanhuysse and A. Wesley and T. Widemann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.3647},
year = {2015}
}
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123 pages, Accepted for publication in Experimental Astronomy