Enabling the Mapping of the Solar System
Asteroid Institute is developing tools to enable at-scale analysis of moving-object data for small body discovery, characterization, and impact monitoring.
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Algorithms for Small Body Science
By creating an open-source, and scalable software platform, Asteroid Institute will enable the deployment and development of new algorithms and tools for the analysis of moving sources in archival and upcoming photometric surveys.
- Discovery with THOR
- Object Precovery
- Utilities and Toolkits
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Novel Discovery Methods
Asteroid Institute, through its partnership with the University of Washington's DIRAC institute, and Google Cloud, deployed the THOR algorithm to discover 104 new asteroids in 1/10th of one month of archival ZTF data
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