Identification of asteroids using the Virtual Observatory: the WFCAM Transit Survey

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F19%3A10406071" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/19:10406071 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=uYJjnjE0tM" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=uYJjnjE0tM</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2727" target="_blank" >10.1093/mnras/stz2727</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Identification of asteroids using the Virtual Observatory: the WFCAM Transit Survey

Original language description

The nature and physical properties of asteroids, in particular those orbiting in the near-Earth space, are of scientific interest and practical importance. Exoplanet surveys can be excellent resources to detect asteroids, both already known and new objects. This is due to their similar observing requirements: large fields of view, long sequences, and short cadence. If the targeted fields are not located far from the ecliptic, many asteroids will cross the field of view occasionally. We present two complementary methodologies to identify asteroids serendipitously observed in large-area astronomical surveys. One methodology focuses on detecting already known asteroids using the Virtual Observatory tool SkyBoT, which predicts their positions and motions in the sky at a specific epoch. The other methodology applies the ssos pipeline, which is able to identify known and new asteroids based on their apparent motion. The application of these methods to the 6.4 deg(2) of the sky covered by the Wide-Field CAMera Transit Survey in the J-band is described. We identified 15 661 positions of 1821 different asteroids. Of them, 182 are potential new discoveries. A publicly accessible online, Virtual Observatory compliant catalogue was created. We obtained the shapes and periods for five of our asteroids from their light curves built with additional photometry taken from external archives. We demonstrated that our methodologies are robust and reliable approaches to find, at zero cost of observing time, asteroids observed by chance in astronomical surveys. Our future goal is to apply them to other surveys with adequate temporal coverage.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10308 - Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GC18-04514J" target="_blank" >GC18-04514J: On the edge of disruption - physical properties of fast-rotating multi-kilometer asteroids</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

ISSN

0035-8711

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

490

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

3046-3060

UT code for WoS article

000503993100003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85079634446