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We describe the Pan-STARRS Moving Object Processing System (MOPS), a modern software package that produces automatic asteroid discoveries and identifications from catalogs of transient detections from next-generation astronomical survey…

We have conducted a detailed simulation of LSST's ability to link near-Earth and main belt asteroid detections into orbits. The key elements of the study were a high-fidelity detection model and the presence of false detections in the form…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-30 Peter Vereš , Steven R. Chesley

The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) observes the visible sky every night in search of dangerous asteroids. With four soon five) sites ATLAS is facing new challenges for scheduling observations and linking detections to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-28 John Tonry

The Pan-STARRS Data Processing System is responsible for the steps needed to downloaded, archive, and process all images obtained by the Pan-STARRS telescopes, including real-time detection of transient sources such as supernovae and moving…

Wide-field surveys have markedly enhanced the discovery and study of solar system objects (SSOs). The 2.5-meter Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST) represents the foremost facility dedicated to optical time-domain surveys in the northern…

The intra-night trajectories of asteroids can be approximated by straight lines, and so are their intra-night detections. Therefore, the Hough transform, a line detecting algorithm, can be used to connect the line-up detections to find…

We present an algorithm that allows fast and efficient detection of transits, including planetary transits, from light-curves. The method is based on building an ensemble of fiducial models and compressing the data using the MOPED…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Pavlos Protopapas , Raul Jimenez , Charles Alcock

We present a novel method for extracting moving objects from TESS data using machine learning. Our approach uses two stacked 3D U-Nets with skip connections, which we call a W-Net, to filter background and identify pixels containing moving…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Brian P. Powell , Jorge Martinez-Palomera , Amy Tuson , Christina Hedges , Jessie Dotson , Jordan Caraballo-Vega

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

We present here a new algorithm for the fast computation of N-point correlation functions in large astronomical data sets. The algorithm is based on kdtrees which are decorated with cached sufficient statistics thus allowing for orders of…

Diverse types of edge data, such as 2D geo-locations and 3D point clouds, are collected by sensors like lidar and GPS receivers on edge devices. On-device searches, such as k-nearest neighbor (kNN) search and radius search, are commonly…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yushuai Ji , Sheng Wang , Zhiyu Chen , Yuan Sun , Zhiyong Peng

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

We present a pipeline for searching for trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) using data from the TESS mission, that includes a novel optimization-based framework for subtracting the effects of scattered light and pointing jitter. The background…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Varun Ganapathi

We report on the serendipitous observations of Solar System objects imaged during the High cadence Transient Survey (HiTS) 2014 observation campaign. Data from this high cadence, wide field survey was originally analyzed for finding…

In this paper we present a two-step neural network model to separate detections of solar system objects from optical and electronic artifacts in data obtained with the "Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System" (ATLAS), a near-Earth…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 Amandin Chyba Rabeendran , Larry Denneau

Most existing Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) approaches follow the Tracking-by-Detection paradigm and the data association framework where objects are firstly detected and then associated. Although deep-learning based method can noticeably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Xingyu Wan , Jiakai Cao , Sanping Zhou , Jinjun Wang

The paper develops a method for detecting optical binary stars based on the use of astrometric catalogs in combination with machine learning (ML) methods. A computational experiment was carried out on the example of the HIPPARCOS mission…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-08 Mikhail V. Sazhin , Valerian Sementsov , Sergey Sorokin , Dan Lubarskiy , Alexander Raikov

With the recent development of technology, wireless sensor networks (WSN) are becoming an important part of many applications. Knowing the exact location of each sensor in the network is very important issue. Therefore, the localization…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Biljana Risteska Stojkoska , Vesna Kirandziska

We propose DOPS, a fast single-stage 3D object detection method for LIDAR data. Previous methods often make domain-specific design decisions, for example projecting points into a bird-eye view image in autonomous driving scenarios. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Mahyar Najibi , Guangda Lai , Abhijit Kundu , Zhichao Lu , Vivek Rathod , Thomas Funkhouser , Caroline Pantofaru , David Ross , Larry S. Davis , Alireza Fathi

Deep space missions face extreme communication delays and environmental uncertainty that prevent real-time ground operations. To support autonomous science operations in communication-constrained environments, we present a partially…

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