The Planetary Science Journal (Jan 2025)
Reprocessing the NEAT Data Set: Preliminary Results
- C. R. Nugent,
- J. M. Bauer,
- O. Benitez,
- M. Blain,
- N. D’Souza,
- S. Garimella,
- M. Goldwater,
- Y. Kim,
- H. C. G. Larsen,
- T. Linder,
- K. Mackowiak,
- Z. McGinnis,
- E. Pan,
- C. C. Pedersen,
- P. Sadhwani,
- F. Spoto,
- N. J. Tan,
- P. Vereš,
- C. Xue
Affiliations
- C. R. Nugent
- ORCiD
- Olin College of Engineering , 1000 Olin Way, Needham, MA 02492, USA ; [email protected]
- J. M. Bauer
- ORCiD
- Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland , College Park, MD 20742, USA
- O. Benitez
- Olin College of Engineering , 1000 Olin Way, Needham, MA 02492, USA ; [email protected]
- M. Blain
- Department of Earth and Space Sciences, College of the Canyons , Santa Clarita, CA 91355, USA
- N. D’Souza
- Olin College of Engineering , 1000 Olin Way, Needham, MA 02492, USA ; [email protected]
- S. Garimella
- Olin College of Engineering , 1000 Olin Way, Needham, MA 02492, USA ; [email protected]
- M. Goldwater
- ORCiD
- MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Applied Ocean Science & Engineering , Cambridge and Woods Hole, MA, USA; Department of Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering , Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 266 Woods Hole Road, MS #55, Woods Hole, MA 02543-1050, USA
- Y. Kim
- ORCiD
- Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland , College Park, MD 20742, USA
- H. C. G. Larsen
- ORCiD
- Aalborg University , Fibigerstræde 16, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark
- T. Linder
- ORCiD
- Planetary Science Institute , Tucson, AZ 85719, USA
- K. Mackowiak
- Olin College of Engineering , 1000 Olin Way, Needham, MA 02492, USA ; [email protected]
- Z. McGinnis
- Olin College of Engineering , 1000 Olin Way, Needham, MA 02492, USA ; [email protected]
- E. Pan
- Olin College of Engineering , 1000 Olin Way, Needham, MA 02492, USA ; [email protected]
- C. C. Pedersen
- ORCiD
- Aalborg University , Fibigerstræde 16, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark
- P. Sadhwani
- Olin College of Engineering , 1000 Olin Way, Needham, MA 02492, USA ; [email protected]
- F. Spoto
- Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory , 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- N. J. Tan
- ORCiD
- School of Physical and Chemical Sciences—Te Kura Matū, University of Canterbury , Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand
- P. Vereš
- Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory , 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- C. Xue
- Olin College of Engineering , 1000 Olin Way, Needham, MA 02492, USA ; [email protected]
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3847/psj/adbca1
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 6,
no. 4
p. 82
Abstract
We have created a new image analysis pipeline to reprocess images taken by the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking survey and have applied it to 10 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 recalibrated and searched for minor planets, and the 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.
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