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主带彗星P/2008 R1 Garrdd的微弱运动目标检测及低信噪比恢复

Faint moving object detection, and the Low Signal-to-Noise recovery of Main Belt comet P/2008 R1 Garradd

Jan Kleyna, Karen J. Meech, Olivier Hainaut

摘要:

我们描述了微弱的主带彗星P/2008 R1 Garradd使用几台望远镜的恢复,最终在一个成功的低$S/N$恢复与双子座北望远镜与GMOS。对于一个任务提案来说,这种恢复是一项时间紧迫的工作,而且必须在拥挤的现场进行。我们描述的技术和软件工具,用于消除系统的噪声伪影和恒星残差,使最终的检测图像统计接近高斯理想的中值图像堆栈,并实现检测灵敏度接近这个理论上的最佳。$R_c$ =26.1 $\pm$ 0.2的星等,假设几何常数为0.05,对应的半径为0.3 km。对于冰在这个物体中存活超过太阳系的年龄,这意味着该物体是一个更近的碰撞碎片。我们讨论了P/2008 R1出乎意料的微弱幅度和核尺寸对非常小的物体内冰的生存的影响。

英文摘要:

We describe the recovery of faint Main Belt comet P/2008 R1 Garradd using several telescopes, culminating in a successful low $S/N$ recovery with the Gemini North telescope with GMOS. This recovery was a time-critical effort for a mission proposal, and had to be performed in a crowded field. We describe techniques and software tools for eliminating systematic noise artifacts and stellar residuals, bringing the final detection image statistics close to the Gaussian ideal for a median image stack, and achieving a detection sensitivity close to this theoretical optimum. The magnitude of $R_c$=26.1$\pm$0.2 with an assumed geometric albedo of 0.05 corresponds to a radius of 0.3 km. For ice to have survived in this object over the age of the solar system, it implies that the object is a more recent collisional fragment. We discuss the implications of the unexpectedly faint magnitude and nuclear size of P/2008 R1 on the survival of ice inside very small bodies.

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