We have created a new image analysis pipeline to reprocess images taken by the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking survey and have applied it to ten nights of observations. This work is the first large-scale reprocessing of images from an asteroid discovery survey in which thousands of archived images are re-calibrated, searched for minor planets, and resulting observations are reported to the Minor Planet Center. We describe the software used to extract, calibrate, and clean sources from the images, including specific techniques that accommodate the unique features of these archival images. This pipeline is able to find fainter asteroids than the original pipeline.
@article{arxiv.2503.20032,
title = {Reprocessing the NEAT Dataset: Preliminary Results},
author = {C. R. Nugent and J. M. Bauer and O. Benitez and M. Blain and N. D'Souza and S. Garimella and M. Goldwater and Y. Kim and H. C. G. Larsen and T. Linder and K. Mackowiak and Z. McGinnis and E. Pan and C. C. Pedersen and P. Sadhwani and F. Spoto and N. J. Tan and P. Vereš and C. Xue},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.20032},
year = {2025}
}