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Technical Note: Asteroid Detection Demonstration from SkySat-3 B612 Data using Synthetic Tracking

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2018-05-04 v1
Authors: Chengxing Zhai , Michael Shao , Stephen Lai , Paul Boerner , Jonny Dyer , Edward Lu , Harold Reitsema , Marc Buie
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Abstract

We report results from analyzing the B612 asteroid observation data taken by the sCMOS cameras on board of Planet SkySat-3 using the synthetic tracking technique. The analysis demonstrates the expected sensitivity improvement in the signal-to-noise ratio of the asteroids from properly stacking up the the short exposure images in post-processing.

Keywords

asteroids

Cite

@article{arxiv.1805.01102,
  title  = {Technical Note: Asteroid Detection Demonstration from SkySat-3 B612 Data using Synthetic Tracking},
  author = {Chengxing Zhai and Michael Shao and Stephen Lai and Paul Boerner and Jonny Dyer and Edward Lu and Harold Reitsema and Marc Buie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.01102},
  year   = {2018}
}

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13 pages, 10 figures, JPL Publication 18-1

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