Periodic fast radio bursts as a probe of extragalactic asteroid belts

ZG Dai, SQ Zhong - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The periodic activity of the repeating fast radio burst (FRB) 180916. J0158+ 65 was recently
reported by the CHIME/FRB Collaboration team. From this source 28 bursts not only show …

Synthetic Detections of Interstellar Objects with the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time

D Marčeta, DZ Seligman - The Planetary Science Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The discovery of two interstellar objects passing through the solar system, 1I/'Oumuamua
and 2I/Borisov, implies that a galactic population exists with a spatial number density of …

White dwarf planetary debris dependence on physical structure distributions within asteroid belts

CH McDonald, D Veras - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
White dwarfs that exhibit transit signatures of planetary debris and accreted planetary
material provide exceptional opportunities to probe the material composition and dynamical …

Size distributions of bluish and reddish small main-belt asteroids obtained by Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam

N Maeda, T Terai, K Ohtsuki, F Yoshida… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We performed a wide-field survey observation of small asteroids using the Hyper Suprime-
Cam installed on the 8.2 m Subaru Telescope. We detected more than 3000 main-belt …

Enabling discoveries of Solar System objects in large alert data streams

R Le Montagner, J Peloton, B Carry, J Desmars… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. With the advent of large-scale astronomical surveys, such as the Zwicky Transient
Facility (ZTF) and the forthcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and …

Impact events as a possible mechanism to initiate sublimation–dust activity of main-belt asteroids

BM Shustov, RV Zolotarev, VV Busarev… - Astronomy Reports, 2022 - Springer
As was shown in papers [1, 2] and other studies of these authors, sublimation–dust activity in
some primitive-type asteroids of the Main asteroid belt (MAB) correlates with the near …

Physical Properties of the Asteroid Belts from Brightness-limited Surveys

C Gallegos, C Fuentes, J Peña - The Planetary Science Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We introduce a general debiasing Bayesian formalism to brightness-limited surveys of solar
system objects that constrains the statistical distribution of a population's physical …

Colors of Irregular Satellites of Saturn with the Dark Energy Camera

J Peña, C Fuentes - The Astronomical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We report g− r and r− i new colors for 21 Saturn Irregular Satellites; among them, four
previously unreported. This is the highest number of Saturn Irregular satellites reported in a …

Robotic observation pipeline for small bodies in the solar system based on open-source software and commercially available telescope hardware

T Hoffmann, M Gehlen, T Plaggenborg… - Frontiers in Astronomy …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The observation of small bodies in the Space Environment is an ongoing important task in
astronomy. While nowadays new objects are mostly detected in larger sky surveys, several …

Exploring the Solar System with the NOIRLab Source Catalog I: Detecting Objects with CANFind

KM Fasbender, DL Nidever - The Astronomical Journal, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Despite extensive searches and the relative proximity of solar system objects (SSOs) to
Earth, many remain undiscovered and there is still much to learn about their properties and …