Mining the ESO WFI and INT WFC archives for known Near Earth Asteroids. Mega-Precovery software

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العنوان: Mining the ESO WFI and INT WFC archives for known Near Earth Asteroids. Mega-Precovery software
المؤلفون: Vaduvescu, O., Popescu, M., Comsa, I., Paraschiv, A., Lacatus, D., Sonka, A., Tudorica, A., Birlan, M., Suciu, O., Char, F., Constantinescu, M., Badescu, T., Badea, M., Vidican, D., Opriseanu, C.
سنة النشر: 2013
المجموعة: Astrophysics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
الوصف: The ESO/MPG WFI and the INT WFC wide field archives comprising 330,000 images were mined to search for serendipitous encounters of known Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs) and Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs). A total of 152 asteroids (44 PHAs and 108 other NEAs) were identified using the PRECOVERY software, their astrometry being measured on 761 images and sent to the Minor Planet Centre. Both recoveries and precoveries were reported, including prolonged orbital arcs for 18 precovered objects and 10 recoveries. We analyze all new opposition data by comparing the orbits fitted before and after including our contributions. We conclude the paper presenting Mega-Precovery, a new online service focused on data mining of many instrument archives simultaneously for one or a few given asteroids. A total of 28 instrument archives have been made available for mining using this tool, adding together about 2.5 million images forming the Mega-Archive.
Comment: Accepted for publication in Astronomische Nachrichten (Sep 2012)
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1002/asna.201211720
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.6902
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1301.6902
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv