A million asteroid observations in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Context. The populations of small bodies of the Solar System (asteroids, comets, Kuiper-Belt objects) are used to constrain the origin and evolution of the Solar System. Both their orbital distribution and composition distribution are required to track the dynamical pathway from their regions of for...

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Published in:Astronomy and astrophysics (Berlin) 2021-08, Vol.652, p.A59
Main Authors: Sergeyev, Alexey V., Carry, Benoit
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Astrometry
Astrophysics
Comets
Galaxies
Kuiper belt
Photometry
Sciences of the Universe
Sky surveys (astronomy)
Solar system evolution
Taxonomy
Trans-Neptunian objects
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Summary:Context. The populations of small bodies of the Solar System (asteroids, comets, Kuiper-Belt objects) are used to constrain the origin and evolution of the Solar System. Both their orbital distribution and composition distribution are required to track the dynamical pathway from their regions of formation to their current locations. Aims. We aim at increasing the sample of Solar System objects that have multi-filter photometry and compositional taxonomy. Methods. We search for moving objects in the archive of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We attempt at maximizing the number of detections by using loose constraints on the extraction. We then apply a suite of filters to remove false-positive detections (stars or galaxies) and mark out spurious photometry and astrometry. Results. We release a catalog of 1 542 522 entries, consisting of 1 036 322 observations of 379 714 known and unique SSOs together with 506 200 observations of moving sources not linked with any known SSOs. The catalog completeness is estimated to be about 95% and the purity to be above 95% for known SSOs.
ISSN:0004-6361
1432-0746
1432-0756
DOI:10.1051/0004-6361/202140430