Publications (17)
Mining archival data from wide-field astronomical surveys in search of near-Earth objects
Teymoor Saifollahi, Gijs Verdoes Kleijn, Rees Williams +5
Increasing our knowledge of the orbits and compositions of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) is important for a better understanding of the evolution of the Solar System and of life. The d…
The Aegis Orbit Determination and Impact Monitoring System and services of the ESA NEOCC web portal
Marco Fenucci, Laura Faggioli, Francesco Gianotto +28
The NEO Coordination Centre (NEOCC) of the European Space Agency is an operational centre that, among other activities, computes the orbits of near-Earth objects and their probabil…
Are Domain Walls ruled out ?
Luca Conversi, Alessandro Melchiorri, Laura Mersini +1
Recent analysis of the combined data of cosmic microwave background, galaxy clustering and supernovae type Ia observations have set strong constraints on the equation of state para…
Rapid-response characterization of near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 during a Torino Scale 3 alert
Maxime Devogèle, Olivier R. Hainaut, Marco Micheli +32
On 27 December 2024, near-Earth object (NEO) 2024 YR was discovered by the ATLAS survey and identified as a virtual impactor. A few weeks later, it eventually reached level 3 o…
The fall of asteroid 2024 XA and the location of possible meteorites
Francesco Gianotto, Albino Carbognani, Marco Fenucci +18
Asteroid 2024 XA was discovered on 3 December 2024 at 05:54 UTC by the Bok telescope in Kitt Peak, Arizona, and impacted Earth about 10 hours later over a remote area of the Sa…
Detecting solar system objects with convolutional neural networks
Maggie Lieu, Luca Conversi, Bruno Altieri +1
In the preparation for ESA's Euclid mission and the large amount of data it will produce, we train deep convolutional neural networks on Euclid simulations classify solar system ob…