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most citedCommissioning An All-Sky Infrared Camera Array for Detection Of Airborne Objects

5 citations · 8 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

A Study of the 30 May 2026 Meteor Event Employing Data from Raspberry Boom Infrasound Sensors in the Boston Area

S. Africk, A. Loeb

Infrasound signals of one and a half cycles of a 0.4 Hz pressure pulse were detected from the 30 May 2026 meteor over Cape Cod Bay at several university and private Raspberry Boom…

physics.pop-ph2026

Six objects reported at 480 mph in a declassified military infrared video show brightness flicker at bird wingbeat rates

Jacob Haqq-Misra, Ravi Kopparapu, Richard Cloete +3

In September 2026 the U.S. Department of War released an infrared video recorded from a military aircraft over the Middle East, with a mission report describing six small spherical…

astro-ph.IM2026

An Assessment of the Triangulation Capabilities of a Multi-Site All-Sky Infrared Camera Array

Abraham Loeb, Alex Delacroix, Ezra Kelderman +2

The Galileo Project operates three autonomous multi-camera observing sites near Las Vegas, Nevada, separated by baselines of and km, with the goal of characterizing the p…

astro-ph.EP2026

Calibration of CNEOS Fireball Velocities and the Robustness of Nominally Hyperbolic Events

Volkan Duran, Abraham Loeb

The NASA/JPL CNEOS Fireball Data catalogue provides a near-global record of bright atmospheric entries but does not report per-event velocity covariance. We calibrate its kinematic…

astro-ph.EP2026

A High-Likelihood Polar Interstellar Meteor Candidate

Richard Cloete, Abraham Loeb

We report a newly identified polar interstellar meteor candidate, labeled polarIM, detected on 2026-04-01 02:13:14 UTC at latitude , longitude , and altit…

astro-ph.EP2026

Two Robust Interstellar Meteor Candidates in the Post-2018 CNEOS Fireball Database

Richard Cloete, Abraham Loeb

We report the identification of two previously unrecognized interstellar meteor candidates in the NASA CNEOS fireball database. Using the empirically calibrated low-discrepancy unc…

astro-ph.EP2025

Upper Limit on the Non-Gravitational Acceleration and Lower Limits on the Nucleus Mass and Diameter of 3I/ATLAS

Richard Cloete, Abraham Loeb, Peter Vereš

We use astrometric data on 3I/ATLAS compiled by the Minor Planet Center from May 15 to September 23, 2025, and derive an upper limit on any statistically significant deviation from…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 3 cited

Improving the discovery of near-Earth objects with machine-learning methods

Peter Vereš, Richard Cloete, Matthew J. Payne +1

We present a comprehensive analysis of the digest2 parameters for candidates of the Near-Earth Object Confirmation Page (NEOCP) that were reported between 2019 and 2024. Our study…

astro-ph.EP2025

Is the "Dark Comet" 2005 VL1 the Venera 2 Spacecraft?

Abraham Loeb, Richard Cloete

Recently, Seligman et. al. (2024) identified a population of near-Earth objects (NEOs) that exhibit statistically significant non-gravitational accelerations with no coma, and labe…

astro-ph.EP2024

Machine Learning Methods for Automated Interstellar Object Classification with LSST

Richard Cloete, Peter Vereš, Abraham Loeb

The Legacy Survey of Space and Time, to be conducted with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, is poised to revolutionize our understanding of the Solar System by providing an unpreceden…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 5 cited

Commissioning An All-Sky Infrared Camera Array for Detection Of Airborne Objects

Laura Dominé, Ankit Biswas, Richard Cloete +13

To date there is little publicly available scientific data on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) whose properties and kinematics purportedly reside outside the performance envelop…

astro-ph.EP2023

Improvement of digest2 NEO Classification Code -- utilizing the Astrometry Data Exchange Standard

Peter Vereš, Richard Cloete, Robert Weryk +2

We describe enhancements to the digest2 software, a short-arc orbit classifier for heliocentric orbits. Digest2 is primarily used by the Near-Earth Object (NEO) community to flag n…