Robotic asteroid survey of the ISON network, search of asteroids and comets from both hemispheres of the Earth

Authors

  • Elenin L.V. Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
  • Krugly Yu.N. Institute of Astronomy, Karazin National university, Kharkov, Russian Federation
  • Molotov I.E. Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
  • Inasaridze R.Ya. Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory of Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
  • Rumyantsev V.V. Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nauchny, Crimea, Russian Federation
  • Reva I.V. Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute, Almaty, Kazakhstan
  • Schildknecht T. Astronomical Institute, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
  • Perez Tijerina E.G. Physical Sciences-Mathematics faculty, Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico
  • Perez Leon J.E. Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico
  • Schmalz S.E. Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
  • Novichonok A.O. Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
  • Tungalag N. Research Centre of Astronomy and Geophysics, Academy of Science of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
  • Kokina T.N. Centre of Astronomy, Autonomous University of Sinaloa, Culiacan, Mexico
  • Tereshina M.A. Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation

UDC

520.25

Abstract

ISON project that is coordinated KIAM RAS develops the concept of "second wave" asteroid survey - survey with small telescopes that provide full sky coverage during night to detect fast NEAs missed in the dedicated asteroid surveys with large telescopes. It is successfully adjusting apparatuses, software and methodical aspects for this goal - two demonstrating asteroid surveys with 40-cm telescopes are already working. Survey observations received more 1 million astrometry measurements. It were discovered 1750 main belt asteroids, 17 near-Earth asteroids, 8 comets, 20 Trojans of Jupiter, 4 objects from the family of Hilda, 4 objects of family Centaur. Large cooperation of telescope for photometry observations of asteroids is arranged to investigate physical characteristics of Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs), especially newly discovered NEAs, to search for binary asteroids and determinate the parameters of binary systems, to investigate the YORP-effect. Few hundreds of observation nights allowed to receive the 400 light curves on 180 NEAs, to discover 9 binary systems. Also it is adjusting the follow up observations of discovered objects.

Keywords:

telescope, survey, near-Earth asteroid, comet, photometry, light curve, astrometry, software, statistics

Funding information

Работа была частично поддержана грантом RUSTAVELI "FR/379/6-300/14".

Author info

  • Leonid V. Elenin

    научный сотрудник Института прикладной математики им. М.В. Келдыша РАН

  • Yuriy N. Krugly

    канд. физ.-мат. наук, ведущий научный сотрудник Института астрономии Харьковского национального университета им. В.Н. Каразина

  • Igor E. Molotov

    старший научный сотрудник Института прикладной математики им. М.В. Келдыша РАН

  • Raguli Ya. Inasaridze

    старший научный сотрудник Абастуманской астрофизической обсерватории Тбилисского государственного университета

  • Vasiliy V. Rumyantsev

    старший научный сотрудник Крымской астрофизической обсерватории РАН

  • Inna V. Reva

    младший научный сотрудник Астрофизического института им. В.Г. Фесенкова

  • Thomas Schildknecht

    д-р физ.-мат. наук, заместитель директора по оптической астрономии Института астрономии Университета Берна

  • Eluardo Gerardo Perez Tijerina

    д-р физ.-мат. наук, руководитель аспирантуры планетной астрофизики и координации прикладных технологий Физико-математического факультета Автономного университета Нуэво-Леона

  • José Enrique Perez Leon

    канд. физ.-мат. наук, преподаватель-исследователь физико-математического факультета Автономного университета Нуэво-Леона

  • Sergey E. Schmalz

    инженер-наблюдатель Института прикладной математики им. М.В. Келдыша РАН

  • Artem O. Novichonok

    канд. биол. наук, инженер Института прикладной математики им. М.В. Келдыша РАН

  • Namkhay Tungalag

    канд. физ.-мат. наук, ведущий научный сотрудник, заведующий отделом астрометрии Института астрономии и геофизики АН Монголии

  • Tatyana N. Kokina

    канд. физ.-мат. наук, руководитель Центра астрономии Автономного университета Синалоа

  • Mariya A. Tereshina

    старший инженер ИПМ им. М.В. Келдыша РАН

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No. 4 (2017): Part 3

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32-38

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Dates

Submitted

October 8, 2017

Accepted

October 16, 2017

Published

December 29, 2017

How to Cite

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Elenin, L.V., Krugly, Y.N., Molotov, I.E., Inasaridze, R.Y., Rumyantsev, V.V., Reva, I.V., Schildknecht, T., Perez Tijerina, E.G., Perez Leon, J.E., Schmalz, S.E., Novichonok, A.O., Tungalag, N., Kokina, T.N., Tereshina, M.A., Robotic asteroid survey of the ISON network, search of asteroids and comets from both hemispheres of the Earth. Ecological Bulletin of Research Centers of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation, 2017, № 4, pp. 32–38.

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Copyright (c) 2017 Еленин Л.В., Круглый Ю.Н., Молотов И.Е., Инасаридзе Р.Я., Румянцев В.В., Рева И.В., Шильдкнехт Т., Перец Тижерина Э.Г., Перец Леон Ж.Э., Шмальц С.Е., Новичонок А.О., Тунгалаг Н., Кокина Т.Н., Терешина М.А.

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