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20192026
most citedVPLanet: The Virtual Planet Simulator

60 citations · 152 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

You Only Stack Once (YOSO): A Motion-Filtered, Deep-Learning Framework for Detecting Faint Moving Sources

Nitya Pandey, César Fuentes, Pedro Bernardinelli +15

We present You Only Stack Once (YOSO), an automated pipeline designed to detect faint, slow-moving Solar System objects in wide-field astronomical surveys. The pipeline integrates…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 7 cited

The DECam Ecliptic Exploration Project (DEEP). VII. The Strengths of Three Superfast Rotating Main-belt Asteroids from a Preliminary Search of DEEP Data

Ryder Strauss, Andrew McNeill, David E. Trilling +19

Superfast rotators (SFRs) are small solar system objects that rotate faster than generally possible for a cohesionless rubble pile. Their rotational characteristics allow us to mak…

astro-ph.EP2024

Candidate Distant Trans-Neptunian Objects Detected by the New Horizons Subaru TNO Survey

Wesley C. Fraser, Simon B. Porter, Lowell Peltier +41

We report the detection of 239 trans-Neptunian Objects discovered through the on-going New Horizons survey for distant minor bodies being performed with the Hyper Suprime-Cam mosai…

astro-ph.EP2023

The DECam Ecliptic Exploration Project (DEEP) II. Observational Strategy and Design

Chadwick A. Trujillo, Cesar Fuentes, David W. Gerdes +19

We present the DECam Ecliptic Exploration Project (DEEP) survey strategy including observing cadence for orbit determination, exposure times, field pointings and filter choices. Th…

astro-ph.EP2023

The DECam Ecliptic Exploration Project (DEEP) VI: first multi-year observations of trans-Neptunian objects

Hayden Smotherman, Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Stephen K. N. Portillo +25

We present the first set of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) observed on multiple nights in data taken from the DECam Ecliptic Exploration Project (DEEP). Of these 110 TNOs, 105 do n…

astro-ph.EP2023

The DECam Ecliptic Exploration Project (DEEP) III: Survey characterization and simulation methods

Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Hayden Smotherman, Zachary Langford +24

We present a detailed study of the observational biases of the DECam Ecliptic Exploration Project's (DEEP) B1 data release and survey simulation software that enables direct statis…

astro-ph.EP2023

The DECam Ecliptic Exploration Project (DEEP): V. The Absolute Magnitude Distribution of the Cold Classical Kuiper Belt

Kevin J. Napier, Hsing-Wen Lin, David W. Gerdes +21

The DECam Ecliptic Exploration Project (DEEP) is a deep survey of the trans-Neptunian solar system being carried out on the 4-meter Blanco telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American…

astro-ph.EP2023

The DECam Ecliptic Exploration Project (DEEP) IV: Constraints on the shape distribution of bright TNOs

R. Strauss, D. E. Trilling, P. H. Bernardinelli +20

We present the methods and results from the discovery and photometric measurement of 26 bright (VR 24 trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) during the first year (2019-20) of the DECa…

astro-ph.EP2023

The DECam Ecliptic Exploration Project (DEEP): I. Survey description, science questions, and technical demonstration

David E. Trilling, David W. Gerdes, Mario Juric +19

We present here the DECam Ecliptic Exploration Project (DEEP), a three year NOAO/NOIRLab Survey that was allocated 46.5 nights to discover and measure the properties of thousands o…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 13 cited

Deep Drilling in the Time Domain with DECam: Survey Characterization

Melissa L. Graham, Robert A. Knop, Thomas Kennedy +41

This paper presents a new optical imaging survey of four deep drilling fields (DDFs), two Galactic and two extragalactic, with the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the 4 meter Blanco…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 3 cited

From Data to Software to Science with the Rubin Observatory LSST

Katelyn Breivik, Andrew J. Connolly, K. E. Saavik Ford +97

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) dataset will dramatically alter our understanding of the Universe, from the origins of the Solar System to the…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 10 cited

The mu Arae planetary system: Radial velocities and astrometry

G. F. Benedict, B. E. McArthur, E. P. Nelan +4

With Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor astrometry and published and previously unpublished radial velocity measures we explore the exoplanetary system mu Arae. Our modeli…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 15 cited

Sifting Through the Static: Moving Object Detection in Difference Images

Hayden Smotherman, Andrew J. Connolly, J. Bryce Kalmbach +6

Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) provide a window into the history of the Solar System, but they can be challenging to observe due to their distance from the Sun and relatively low b…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 11 cited

THOR: An Algorithm for Cadence-Independent Asteroid Discovery

Joachim Moeyens, Mario Juric, Jes Ford +7

We present "Tracklet-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery" (THOR), an algorithm for linking of observations of Solar System objects across multiple epochs that does not require intra-n…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 60 cited

VPLanet: The Virtual Planet Simulator

Rory Barnes, Rodrigo Luger, Russell Deitrick +14

We describe a software package called VPLanet that simulates fundamental aspects of planetary system evolution over Gyr timescales, with a focus on investigating habitable worlds.…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 1 cited

Enabling Deep All-Sky Searches of Outer Solar System Objects

Mario Jurić, R. Lynne Jones, J. Bryce Kalmbach +12

A foundational goal of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is to map the Solar System small body populations that provide key windows into understanding of its formation and…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 32 cited

Fast algorithms for slow moving asteroids: constraints on the distribution of Kuiper Belt Objects

Peter J. Whidden, J. Bryce Kalmbach, Andrew J. Connolly +11

We introduce a new computational technique for searching for faint moving sources in astronomical images. Starting from a maximum likelihood estimate for the probability of the det…