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Tuning the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Observing Strategy for Solar System Science
Megan E. Schwamb, R. Lynne Jones, Peter Yoachim +27
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to start the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) in early to mid-2025. This multi-band wide-field synoptic survey will transform our vi…
Photometric Properties of Jupiter Trojans detected by the Dark Energy Survey
DES Collobration, :, Jiaming Pan +55
The Jupiter Trojans are a large group of asteroids that are co-orbiting with Jupiter near its L4 and L5 Lagrange points. The study of Jupiter Trojans is crucial for testing differe…
No Evidence for Orbital Clustering in the Extreme Trans-Neptunian Objects
K. J. Napier, D. W. Gerdes, Hsing Wen Lin +50
The apparent clustering in longitude of perihelion and ascending node of extreme trans-Neptunian objects (ETNOs) has been attributed to the gravitational effects of an…
OSSOS: The Eccentricity and Inclination Distributions of the Stable Neptunian Trojans
Hsing Wen Lin, Ying-Tung Chen, Kathryn Volk +10
The minor planets on orbits that are dynamically stable in Neptune's 1:1 resonance on Gyr timescales were likely emplaced by Neptune's outward migration. We explore the intrinsic l…
FLAMINGOS-2 infrared photometry of 2I/Borisov
Chien-Hsiu Lee, Hsing-Wen Lin, Ying-Tung Chen +1
2I/Borisov is the second interstellar object (ISO) after 'Oumuamua (Meech et al. 2017), but differs from 'Oumuamua drastically with its extensive cometary activity. A key ingredien…
OSSOS XVIII: Constraining migration models with the 2:1 resonance using the Outer Solar System Origins Survey
Ying-Tung Chen, Brett Gladman, Kathryn Volk +13
Resonant dynamics plays a significant role in the past evolution and current state of our outer Solar System. The population ratios and spatial distribution of Neptune's resonant p…
Asteroid Discovery and Light Curve Extraction Using the Hough Transform -- A Rotation Period Study for Sub-Kilometer Main-Belt Asteroids
Kai-Jie Lo, Chan-Kao Chang, Hsing-Wen Lin +8
The intra-night trajectories of asteroids can be approximated by straight lines, and so are their intra-night detections. Therefore, the Hough transform, a line detecting algorithm…
Trans-Neptunian objects found in the first four years of the Dark Energy Survey
Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Gary M. Bernstein, Masao Sako +61
We present a catalog of 316 trans-Neptunian bodies detected by the Dark Energy Survey (DES). These objects include 245 discoveries by DES (139 not previously published) detected in…
Towards Efficient Detection of Small Near-Earth Asteroids Using the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF)
Quanzhi Ye, Frank J. Masci, Hsing Wen Lin +23
We describe ZStreak, a semi-real-time pipeline specialized in detecting small, fast-moving near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) that is currently operating on the data from the newly-commis…
The Zwicky Transient Facility: Science Objectives
Matthew J. Graham, S. R. Kulkarni, Eric C. Bellm +114
The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a public-private enterprise, is a new time domain survey employing a dedicated camera on the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt telescope with a 47 deg$^2…
Machine Learning for the Zwicky Transient Facility
Ashish Mahabal, Umaa Rebbapragada, Richard Walters +47
The Zwicky Transient Facility is a large optical survey in multiple filters producing hundreds of thousands of transient alerts per night. We describe here various machine learning…
The Zwicky Transient Facility: System Overview, Performance, and First Results
Eric C. Bellm, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Matthew J. Graham +112
The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is a new optical time-domain survey that uses the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt telescope. A custom-built wide-field camera provides a 47 deg fiel…
Searching for Super-Fast Rotators Using the Pan-STARRS 1
Chan-Kao Chang, Hsing-Wen Lin, Wing-Huen Ip +9
A class of asteroids, called large super-fast rotators (large SFRs), have rotation periods shorter than 2 hours and diameters larger than ~ 0.3 km. They pose challenges to the usua…
A Northern Ecliptic Survey for Solar System Science
Megan E. Schwamb, Kathryn Volk, Hsing Wen +12
Making an inventory of the Solar System is one of the four fundamental science requirements for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). The current baseline footprint for LSST'…
OSSOS. VII. 800+ trans-Neptunian objects - the complete data release
Michele T. Bannister, Brett J. Gladman, J. J. Kavelaars +33
The Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS), a wide-field imaging program in 2013-2017 with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, surveyed 155 deg of sky to depths of $m_r =…
OSSOS IX: two objects in Neptune's 9:1 resonance -- implications for resonance sticking in the scattering population
Kathryn Volk, Ruth A. Murray-Clay, Brett J. Gladman +12
We discuss the detection in the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS) of two objects in Neptune's distant 9:1 mean motion resonance at semimajor axis ~au. Both ob…
Searching for Moving Objects in HSC-SSP: Pipeline and Preliminary Results
Ying-Tung Chen, Hsing-Wen Lin, Mike Alexandersen +6
The Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP) is currently the deepest wide- field survey in progress. The 8.2 m aperture of Subaru telescope is very powerful in detect-…
Confirmation of Large Super-Fast Rotator (144977) 2005 EC127
Chan-Kao Chang, Hsing-Wen Lin, Wing-Huen Ip +7
(144977) 2005 EC127 is an V-/A-type inner-main-belt asteroid with a diameter of 0.6 +- 0.1 km. Asteroids of this size are believed to have rubble-pile structure, and, therefore, ca…
Machine Learning Based Real Bogus System for HSC-SSP Moving Object Detecting Pipeline
Hsing-Wen Lin, Ying-Tung Chen, Jen-Hung Wang +5
Machine learning techniques are widely applied in many modern optical sky surveys, e.q. Pan-STARRS1, PTF/iPTF and Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam survey, to reduce human intervention for…
The Pan-STARRS 1 Discoveries of five new Neptune Trojans
Hsing Wen Lin, Ying-Tung Chen, Matthew J. Holman +16
In this work we report the detection of seven Neptune Trojans (NTs) in the Pan-STARRS 1 (PS1) survey. Five of these are new discoveries, consisting of four L4 Trojans and one L5 Tr…
Large Super-Fast Rotator Hunting Using the Intermediate Palomar Transient Factory
Chan-Kao Chang, Hsing-Wen Lin, Wing-Huen Ip +5
In order to look for large super-fast rotators, five dedicated surveys covering ~ 188 square degree in the ecliptic plane have been carried out in R-band with ~10 min cadence using…
Discovery of A New Retrograde Trans-Neptunian Object: Hint of A Common Orbital Plane for Low Semi-Major Axis, High Inclination TNOs and Centaurs
Ying-Tung Chen, Hsing Wen Lin, Matthew J. Holman +14
Although the majority of Centaurs are thought to have originated in the scattered disk, with the high-inclination members coming from the Oort cloud, the origin of the high inclina…
OSSOS: IV. Discovery of a dwarf planet candidate in the 9:2 resonance with Neptune
Michele T. Bannister, Mike Alexandersen, Susan D. Benecchi +32
We report the discovery and orbit of a new dwarf planet candidate, 2015 RR, by the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS). 2015 RR's orbit is eccentric ($e=0.586…
OSSOS III - Resonant Trans-Neptunian Populations: Constraints from the first quarter of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey
Kathryn Volk, Ruth Murray-Clay, Brett Gladman +10
The first two observational sky "blocks" of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS) have significantly increased the number of well-characterized observed trans-Neptunian obj…