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In the past two decades an increasing interest in discovering Near Earth Objects has been noted in the astronomical community. Dedicated surveys have been operated for data acquisition and processing, resulting in the present discovery of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-10 T. Stefanut , V. Bacu , C. Nandra , D. Balasz , D. Gorgan , O. Vaduvescu

The Zwicky Transit Factory (ZTF) is a powerful time domain survey facility with a large field of view. We apply the synthetic tracking technique to integrate a ZTF's long-dwell dataset, which consists of 133 nominal 30-second exposure…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Chengxing Zhai , Quanzhi Ye , Michael Shao , Russell Trahan , Navtej S. Saini , Janice Shen , Thomas A. Prince

The current data acquisition rate of astronomical transient surveys and the promise for significantly higher rates during in the next decade necessitate the development of novel approaches to analyze astronomical data sets and promptly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-28 Robert Strausbaugh , Antonino Cucchiara , Michael Dow , Sara Webb , Jielai Zhang , Simon Goode , Jeff Cooke

Many novel methods have been proposed to mitigate stellar activity for exoplanet detection as the presence of stellar activity in radial velocity (RV) measurements is the current major limitation. Unlike traditional methods that model…

We present an automated and probabilistic method to make prediscovery detections of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) in archival survey images, with the goal of reducing orbital uncertainty immediately after discovery. We refit Minor Planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-10 Sage Li , Alex Geringer-Sameth , Nathan Golovich

The Planck mission, originally devised for cosmological studies, offers the opportunity to observe Solar System objects at millimetric and submillimetric wavelengths. We concentrate in this paper on the asteroids of the Main Belt. We intend…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Cremonese , F. Marzari , C. Burigana , M. Maris

We present an application of Deep Learning for the image recognition of asteroid trails in single-exposure photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Using algorithms based on multi-layered deep Convolutional Neural Networks, we report…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-02 Andrei A. Parfeni , Laurentiu I. Caramete , Andreea M. Dobre , Nguyen Tran Bach

Asteroids are an indelible part of most astronomical surveys though only a few surveys are dedicated to their detection. Over the years, high cadence microlensing surveys have amassed several terabytes of data while scanning primarily the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-03 Preeti Cowan , Ian A. Bond , Napoleon H. Reyes

[Abridged] We present a search for fast optical transients (~0.5 hr-1 day) using repeated observations of the Pan-STARRS1 Medium-Deep Survey (PS1/MDS) fields. Our search takes advantage of the consecutive g/r-band observations (16.5 min in…

We present here the discovery of a new class of super-slow rotating asteroids (P>1000 hours) in data extracted from the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) and Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) all-sky surveys. Of the 39…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-21 N. Erasmus , D. Kramer , A. McNeill , D. E. Trilling , P. Janse van Rensburg , G. T. van Belle , J. L. Tonry , L. Denneau , A. Heinze , H. J. Weiland

We present a method for calculating precise distances to asteroids using only two nights of data from a single location --- far too little for an orbit --- by exploiting the angular reflex motion of the asteroids due to Earth's axial…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Aren N. Heinze , Stanimir Metchev

Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST), with a powerful sky survey capability in the northern hemisphere, will play an important role in asteroid searching and monitoring. However, WFST is not a telescope dedicated to near-Earth asteroids…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-21 Jun-Qiang Lu , Lu-Lu Fan , Min-Xuan Cai , Shao-Han Wang , Bing-Xue Fu , Xu Kong , Qing-Feng Zhu

As astronomical photometric surveys continue to tile the sky repeatedly, the potential to pushdetection thresholds to fainter limits increases; however, traditional digital-tracking methods cannotachieve this efficiently beyond time scales…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-09 Nathan Golovich , Noah Lifset , Robert Armstrong , Eric Green , Michael D. Schneider , Roger Pearce

Thermal infrared observations are the most effective way to measure asteroid diameter and albedo for a large number of near-Earth objects. Major surveys like NEOWISE, NEOSurvey, ExploreNEOs, and NEOLegacy find a small fraction of high…

We present an approach that significantly increases the sensitivity for finding and tracking small and fast near Earth asteroids (NEA's). This approach relies on a combined use of a new generation of high-speed cameras which allow short,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-20 Michael Shao , Bijan Nemati , Chengxing Zhai , Slava G. Turyshev , Jagmit Sandhu , Gregg W. Hallinan , Leon K. Harding

Automated asteroid detection routines set requirements on the number of detections, signal-to-noise ratio, and the linearity of the expected motion in order to balance completeness, reliability, and time delay after data acquisition when…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Joseph R. Masiero , E. Redwing , A. K. Mainzer , J. M. Bauer , R. M. Cutri , T. Grav , E. Kramer , C. R. Nugent , S. Sonnett , E. L. Wright

A very unique strength of the Devasthal Observatory is its capability of detecting optical transients with the 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) and to rapidly follow them up using the 1.3-m Devasthal Fast Optical Telescope…

The nature and physical properties of asteroids, in particular those orbiting in the near-Earth space, are of scientific interest and practical importance. Exoplanet surveys can be excellent resources to detect asteroids, both already known…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 M. Cortés-Contreras , F. M. Jiménez-Esteban , M. Mahlke , E. Solano , J. Ďurech , S. Barceló Forteza , C. Rodrigo , A. Velasco , B. Carry

Modern astronomical surveys, such as the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), are capable of detecting thousands of transient events per year, necessitating the use of automated and scalable data analysis techniques. Recent advances in machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-17 Betty X. Hu , Avi Loeb

Synthetic tracking (ST) has emerged as a potent technique for observing fast-moving near-Earth objects (NEOs), offering enhanced detection sensitivity and astrometric accuracy by avoiding trailing loss. This approach also empowers small…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-09 Chengxing Zhai , Michael Shao , Navtej Saini , Philip Choi , Nez Evans , Russell Trahan , Kutay Nazli , Max Zhan