5 papers
Search for L4 Earth Trojan asteroids with the 2.5-meter Wide Field Survey Telescope
Junqiang Lu, Lulu Fan, Shaohan Wang +16
Earth Trojan asteroids (ETAs) are a mysterious population, and dynamically stable ETAs, if primordial, could be "living fossils" of the early solar system. To date, there are only…
The atmospheric extinction curve at Lenghu site
Jin-Sheng Qiu, Xiao-Hui Xu, Qing-Feng Zhu +11
In this study, we use a dedicated spectroscopic telescope to carry out low-resolution measurements of the optical atmospheric extinction curve at Lenghu astronomical site in Qingha…
The 2.5-meter Wide Field Survey Telescope Real-time Data Processing Pipeline I: From raw data to alert distribution
Minxuan Cai, Zelin Xu, Lulu Fan +13
The Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST) is a dedicated photometric surveying facility built jointly by the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and the Purple Mounta…
Search Capability for Near-Earth Objects with the Wide Field Survey Telescope
Jun-Qiang Lu, Lu-Lu Fan, Min-Xuan Cai +4
Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST), with a powerful sky survey capability in the northern hemisphere, will play an important role in asteroid searching and monitoring. However, WFS…
A Heliocentric-orbiting Objects Processing System (HOPS) for the Wide Field Survey Telescope: Architecture, Processing Workflow, and Preliminary Results
Shao-Han Wang, Bing-Xue Fu, Jun-Qiang Lu +23
Wide-field surveys have markedly enhanced the discovery and study of solar system objects (SSOs). The 2.5-meter Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST) represents the foremost facility…