Recent work has shown that the correlation between SDSS colors and optical albedo can be used to estimate asteroid sizes from optical data alone. We revisit a correlation between SDSS colors and optical albedo for asteroids, with the albedo derived using WISE-based size estimates. Moeyens, Myhrvold \& Ivezić (2020) showed that this correlation can be used to estimate asteroid sizes with optical data alone, with a precision of about 17\% relative to WISE-based size estimates. We present here several more sophisticated data-driven models for the variation of optical albedo with colors and estimate the contribution of SDSS photometric errors to the albedo and size estimate uncertainties. We use the results of our analysis to predict that LSST data will enable asteroid size precision of about 15\% relative to WISE-based size estimates. Compared to the accuracy of WISE-based size estimates of 15-20\%, the implied accuracy of optical size estimates, in the range 21-25\%, is thus only a factor of 1.3 to 1.4 worse. This size estimation accuracy is significantly better than commonly assumed for optical data and is due to accurate and homogeneous multi-band photometry delivered by modern digital sky surveys.
The Canada-France-Hawaii Legacy Survey (CFHTLS) comprising about 25 000 MegaCam images was data mined to search for serendipitous encounters of known Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs) and Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs). A total of 143 asteroids (109 NEAs and 34 PHAs) were found on 508 candidate images which were field corrected and measured carefully, and their astrometry was reported to Minor Planet Centre. Both recoveries and precoveries (apparitions before discovery) were reported, including data for 27 precovered asteroids (20 NEAs and 7 PHAs) and 116 recovered asteroids (89 NEAs and 27 …
Discovery of 2 km ultra-fast rotating asteroid in Rubin DP2 catalog via varying Fourier order method
University of Washington（华盛顿大学）；Institute of Applied Astronomy of Russian Academy of Sciences（俄罗斯科学院应用天体物理研究所）；Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign（伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校天文学系）；Rubin Observatory/NSF NOIRLab（鲁宾天文台/美国国家光学红外天文实验室）
Vera C. Rubin Observatory will be a key facility for small body science in planetary astronomy over the next decade. It will carry out the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), observing the sky repeatedly in u, g, r, i, z, and y over the course of ten years using a 6.5 m effective diameter telescope with a 9.6 square degree field of view, reaching approximately r = 24.5 mag (5-σ depth) per visit. The resulting dataset will provide extraordinary opportunities for both discovery and characterization of large numbers (10--100 times more than currently known) of small solar system bodies, furth…
Extracting Asteroid Physical Properties from Vera C. Rubin Observatory Science Validation Survey Data: Rotational Periods, Colors, and Taxonomies
São Paulo State University (UNESP)（圣保罗州立大学）；Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia（跨机构电子天文实验室）；NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory / NSF NOIRLab（美国国家科学基金会-能源部薇拉·C·鲁宾天文台/美国国家科学基金会NOIRLab）；DiRAC Institute and the Department of Astronomy, University of Washington（华盛顿大学天文学系及DiRAC研究所）；Instituto de Astronomía y Ciencias Planetarias, Universidad de Atacama（阿塔卡马大学天文与行星科学研究所）；Universidad Tecnológica del Perú (UTP)（秘鲁理工大学）
Prospects for Astrobiology and Technosignature Searches with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time
University of Belgrade（贝尔格莱德大学）；School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kent（肯特大学物理与天文学院）；Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory（费米国家加速器实验室）；Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago（芝加哥大学天体物理学系）
The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey, specifically the Very Wide segment of data, is used to search for possible main-belt comets. In the first data set, 952 separate objects with asteroidal orbits within the main-belt are examined using a three-level technique. First, the full-width-half-maximum of each object is compared to stars of similar magnitude, to look for evidence of a coma. Second, the brightness profiles of each object are compared with three stars of the same magnitude, which are nearby on the image to ensure any extended profile is not due to imaging variations. Final…
In the era of wide-field surveys like the Zwicky Transient Facility and the Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time, sparse photometric measurements constitute an increasing percentage of asteroid observations, particularly for asteroids newly discovered in these large surveys. Follow-up observations to supplement these sparse data may be prohibitively expensive in many cases, so to overcome these sampling limitations, we introduce a flexible model based on Gaussian Processes to enable Bayesian parameter inference of asteroid time series data. This model is designed to be flexible …
Predictions of Transiting Exoplanet Confirmations from Rubin LSST Surveys
School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University（亚利桑那州立大学地球与太空探索学院）；Penn State University（宾夕法尼亚州立大学）；Universidad Andres Bello（安德烈斯贝略大学）；Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México（墨西哥国立自治大学）；University of Belgrade（贝尔格莱德大学）
Multi-epoch Spitzer Space Telescope 24 micron data is utilized from the MIPSGAL and Taurus Legacy surveys to detect asteroids based on their relative motion. These infrared detections are matched to known asteroids and rotationally averaged diameters and albedos are derived using the Near Earth Asteroid Model (NEATM) in conjunction with Monte Carlo simulations for 1835 asteroids ranging in size from 0.2 to 143.6 km. A small subsample of these objects was also detected by IRAS or MSX and the single wavelength albedo and diameter fits derived from this data are within 5% of the IRAS and/or MSX d…
We present here the design, architecture, and first data release for the Solar System Notification Alert Processing System (SNAPS). SNAPS is a Solar System broker that ingests alert data from all-sky surveys. At present, we ingest data from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) public survey, and we will ingest data from the forthcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) when it comes online. SNAPS is an official LSST downstream broker. In this paper we present the SNAPS design goals and requirements. We describe the details of our automatic pipeline processing in which physical properties o…
The NASA Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (Rubin), will transform our view of the wide-field sky, with similar sensitivities, but complementary in wavelength, spatial resolution, and time domain coverage. Here we present findings from the AURA Roman+Rubin Synergy Working group, charged by the STScI and NOIRLab Directors to identify frontier science questions in General Astrophysics, beyond the well-covered areas of Dark Energy and Cosmology, that can be uniquely addressed with Roman and Rubin synergies in observing stra…
Vera C. Rubin Observatory, through the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), will allow us to derive a panchromatic view of variability in young stellar objects (YSOs) across all relevant timescales. Indeed, both short-term variability (on timescales of hours to days) and long-term variability (months to years), predominantly driven by the dynamics of accretion processes in disk-hosting YSOs, can be explored by taking advantage of the multi-band filters option available in Rubin LSST, in particular the $u,g,r,i$ filters that enable us to discriminate between photospheric stellar properties a…
Origin of asteroid (469219) Kamo`oalewa: the main asteroid belt or the Giordano Bruno crater on the Moon?
ESA ESRIN / PDO / NEO Coordination Centre（欧洲空间局地球观测站近地天体协调中心）；Deimos Italia s.r.l.（德伊莫斯意大利有限公司）；Department of Astronomy, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade（贝尔格莱德大学数学学院天文学系）；Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón (CEFCA)（阿拉贡宇宙物理研究中心）；Department of Physics, University of Helsinki（赫尔辛基大学物理系）；Asteroid Engineering Laboratory, Luleå University of Technology（鲁勒理工大学小行星工程实验室）；Center for Lunar and Planetary Sciences, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院地球化学研究所地外行星科学中心）
Shape, Orientation and Colors Combined approach for Asteroids (SOCCA)
Université Côte d’Azur（蔚蓝海岸大学）；Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur（蔚蓝海岸天文台）；CNRS（法国国家科学研究中心）；Laboratoire Lagrange（拉格朗日实验室）；MAUCA - Master track in Astrophysics（天体物理学硕士轨道项目）；Université Paris-Saclay（巴黎萨克雷大学）；CNRS/IN2P3（法国国家科学研究中心/法国国家粒子与核物理研究所）；IJCLab（理论与实验粒子物理及宇宙学实验室）；Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale（天体物理学研究所）；Université Marie et Louis Pasteur（玛丽和路易·巴斯德大学）；Institut UTINAM (UMR 6213)（UTINAM研究所）；IMCCE（天体力学与历书计算研究所）；Observatoire de Paris（巴黎天文台）；PSL Research University（巴黎文理研究大学）；Sorbonne Universités（索邦大学）；UPMC Univ Paris 06（巴黎第六大学）；Univ. Lille（里尔大学）；Inria（法国国家信息与自动化研究所）；Maasai project-team（Maasai项目组）；Laboratoire J.A. Dieudonné（J.A.迪厄多内实验室）
Hyrax: An Extensible Framework for Rapid ML Experimentation and Unsupervised Discovery in the Era of Rubin, Roman, and Euclid
Dept. of Astronomy \& the DiRAC Institute, University of Washington, Box 351580, Seattle, WA 98195, USA；School of Physics；Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA；Department of Astronomy；Planetary Science, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, USA；McWilliams Center for Cosmology；Astrophysics, Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
