6 papers
The Roman Space Telescope as a Planetary Defense Asset
Bryan J. Holler, Richard G. Cosentino, William C. Schultz +5
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, slated to launch in October 2026, will serve a critical role in the characterization and threat assessment of near-Earth Objects (NEOs), t…
Technical Memo: The impact of Nancy Grace Roman Telescope's default image processing on the detectability of moving Solar system objects
Joseph Masiero
The Nancy Grace Roman Telescope is scheduled to launch in 2026 to conduct a wide-field survey of the sky at near-infrared wavelengths. Although Roman is unable to track objects mov…
Kete: Predicting Known Minor Bodies in Images
D. Dahlen, Y. G. Kwon, J. R. Masiero +2
Kete is an open-source software package for quickly and accurately predicting the positions and magnitudes of asteroids and comets in large-scale, all-sky surveys. It can predict o…
COSINE (Cometary Object Study Investigating their Nature and Evolution) I. Project Overview and General Characteristics of Detected Comets
Yuna G. Kwon, Dar W. Dahlen, Joseph R. Masiero +8
We present the first results from the COSINE (Cometary Object Study Investigating their Nature and Evolution) project, based on a uniformly processed dataset of 484 comets observed…
The Mineralogical Connection Between M- and K-type Asteroids as Indicated by Polarimetry
Joseph R. Masiero, Yuna G. Kwon, Elena Selmi +1
Polarimetry has the capacity to provide a unique probe of the surface properties of asteroids. Trends in polarization behavior as a function of wavelength trace asteroid regolith m…
Cross validation of albedo determination for 1627 Ivar from three different techniques
Elena Selmi, M. Devogèle, J. R. Masiero +10
Near Earth Asteroids are of great interest to the scientific community due to their proximity to Earth, making them both potential hazards and possible targets for future missions,…