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We describe ZStreak, a semi-real-time pipeline specialized in detecting small, fast-moving near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) that is currently operating on the data from the newly-commissioned Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) survey. Based on a…

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

While the data analysis of $\gamma$-ray telescopes has now become more robust, some signals may be misinterpretations of a time-variable foreground emission from the Solar System, induced by low-energy cosmic-ray interactions with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-13 Thomas Siegert

Contamination from nearby sources often compromises stellar rotation periods derived from photometric light curves, particularly in data with large pixel scales such as TESS. This problem is compounded when both the target and contaminant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-14 Mariel Lares-Martiz , Terry D. Oswalt , Derek L. Buzasi , Kylie R. Boyer , Luca Guida , Ryan J. Reynolds

Despite the large amount of high quality data generated in recent space encounters with asteroids, the majority of our knowledge about these objects comes from ground based observations. Asteroids travelling in orbits that are potentially…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-17 T. Santana-Ros , G. Dudziński , P. Bartczak

Ongoing large-scale optical time-domain surveys, such as the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), are producing alerts at unprecedented rates. Analysis of transient sources has so far followed two distinct paths: archival analysis of data on…

This study presents photometric solutions for a carefully selected sample of 181 detached eclipsing binary systems recently observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission. Our findings contribute to discussions about…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-02 L. Siqueira , B. W. Freitas , D. B. de Freitas

Compared with previous space-borne surveys, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) provides a unique and new approach to observe Solar System objects. While its primary mission avoids the vicinity of the ecliptic plane by…

We investigated the reliability of the genetic algorithm which will be used to invert the photometric measurements of asteroids collected by the European Space Agency Gaia mission. To do that, we performed several sets of simulations for 10…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 T. Santana-Ros , P. Bartczak , T. Michałowski , P. Tanga , A. Cellino

Machine learning methods are well established in the classification of quasars (QSOs). However, the advent of light curve observations adds a great amount of complexity to the problem. Our goal is to use the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF)…

Small aperture telescopes provide the opportunity to conduct high frequency, targeted observations of near-Earth Asteroids that are not feasible with larger facilities due to highly competitive time allocation requirements. Observations of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-30 Samuel L. Jackson , Ulrich C. Kolb , Simon F. Green

Asteroid detections in astronomical images may appear as trails due to a combination of their apparent rate of motion and exposure duration. Nearby asteroids in particular typically have high apparent rates of motion and acceleration. Their…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Peter Vereš , Robert Jedicke , Larry Denneau , Richard Wainscoat , Matthew J. Holman , Hsing-Wen Lin

We investigate the cross-correlation between astrometric and timing-residual observables for distant sources, such as pulsars and galaxies, and equivalent observables for nearby solar system bodies. Using the unified spin-weighted formalism…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-31 Elias Fink , Carlo Contaldi , Giorgio Mentasti

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

Modern astronomical surveys detect asteroids by linking together their appearances across multiple images taken over time. This approach faces limitations in detecting faint asteroids and handling the computational complexity of trajectory…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-25 Nathan Golovich , Trevor Steil , Alex Geringer-Sameth , Keita Iwabuchi , Ryan Dozier , Roger Pearce

We present DeepStreaks, a convolutional-neural-network, deep-learning system designed to efficiently identify streaking fast-moving near-Earth objects that are detected in the data of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a wide-field,…

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission is expected to discover hundreds of planets via single transits first identified in their light curves. Determining the orbital period of these single transit candidates typically…

The proposed Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will survey the entire sky to locate the nearest and brightest transiting extrasolar planets with orbital periods up to about 36 days. Here we estimate the number and kind of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-09 Timothy M. Brown , David W. Latham

In the past decade, hundreds of asteroid shape models have been derived using the lightcurve inversion method. At the same time, a new framework of 3-D shape modeling based on the combined analysis of widely different data sources such as…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 J. Durech , B. Carry , M. Delbo , M. Kaasalainen , M. Viikinkoski