The Pan-STARRS Moving Object Processing System

被引：136

作者：

Denneau, Larry ^{[1
]}

Jedicke, Robert ^{[1
]}

Grav, Tommy ^{[2
]}

Granvik, Mikael ^{[3
]}

Kubica, Jeremy

Milani, Andrea ^{[4
]}

Veres, Peter ^{[1
]}

Wainscoat, Richard ^{[1
]}

Chang, Daniel ^{[1
]}

Pierfederici, Francesco ^{[5
]}

Kaiser, N. ^{[1
]}

Chambers, K. C. ^{[1
]}

Heasley, J. N. ^{[1
]}

Magnier, Eugene A. ^{[1
]}

Price, P. A. ^{[6
]}

Myers, Jonathan ^{[7
]}

Kleyna, Jan ^{[1
]}

Hsieh, Henry ^{[1
]}

Farnocchia, Davide ^{[4
,8
]}

Waters, Chris ^{[1
]}

Sweeney, W. H. ^{[1
]}

Green, Denver ^{[1
]}

Bolin, Bryce ^{[1
]}

Burgett, W. S. ^{[1
]}

Morgan, J. S. ^{[1
]}

Tonry, John L. ^{[1
]}

Hodapp, K. W. ^{[1
]}

Chastel, Serge ^{[1
]}

Chesley, Steve ^{[8
]}

Fitzsimmons, Alan ^{[9
]}

Holman, Matthew ^{[10
]}

Spahr, Tim ^{[11
]}

Tholen, David ^{[1
]}

Williams, Gareth V. ^{[11
]}

Abe, Shinsuke ^{[12
]}

Armstrong, J. D. ^{[1
]}

Bressi, Terry H. ^{[13
]}

Holmes, Robert ^{[14
]}

Lister, Tim ^{[15
]}

McMillan, Robert S. ^{[13
]}

Micheli, Marco ^{[1
]}

Ryan, Eileen V. ^{[16
]}

Ryan, William H. ^{[16
]}

Scotti, James V. ^{[13
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Hawaii, Inst Astron, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA

[2] Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD USA

[3] Univ Helsinki, Dept Phys, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland

[4] Univ Pisa, Pisa, Italy

[5] Space Telescope Sci Inst, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA

[6] Princeton Univ, Dept Astrophys Sci, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA

[7] Univ Arizona, Tucson, AZ USA

[8] CALTECH, Jet Prop Lab, Pasadena, CA USA

[9] Queens Univ Belfast, Astrophys Res Ctr, Sch Math & Phys, Belfast BT7 1NN, Antrim, North Ireland

[10] Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

[11] Smithsonian Astrophys Observ, Cambridge, MA USA

[12] Natl Cent Univ, Inst Astron, Taipei, Taiwan

[13] Univ Arizona, Lunar & Planetary Lab, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA

[14] Astron Res Inst, Charleston, IL 61920 USA

[15] Las Cumbres Observ Global Telescope Network Inc, Santa Barbara, CA 93117 USA

[16] New Mexico Inst Min & Technol, Magdalena Ridge Observ, Socorro, NM 87801 USA

来源：

PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC | 2013年 / 125卷 / 926期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会; 美国国家航空航天局;

关键词：

ORBIT DETERMINATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; EARTH; IDENTIFICATION; CALIBRATION; ASTEROIDS;

D O I：

10.1086/670337

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

We describe the Pan-STARRS Moving Object Processing System (MOPS), a modern software package that produces automatic asteroid discoveries and identifications from catalogs of transient detections from next-generation astronomical survey telescopes. MOPS achieves >99.5% efficiency in producing orbits from a synthetic but realistic population of asteroids whose measurements were simulated for a Pan-STARRS4-class telescope. Additionally, using a nonphysical grid population, we demonstrate that MOPS can detect populations of currently unknown objects such as interstellar asteroids. MOPS has been adapted successfully to the prototype Pan-STARRS1 telescope despite differences in expected false detection rates, fill-factor loss, and relatively sparse observing cadence compared to a hypothetical Pan-STARRS4 telescope and survey. MOPS remains highly efficient at detecting objects but drops to 80% efficiency at producing orbits. This loss is primarily due to configurable MOPS processing limits that are not yet tuned for the Pan-STARRS1 mission. The core MOPS software package is the product of more than 15 person-years of software development and incorporates countless additional years of effort in third-party software to perform lower-level functions such as spatial searching or orbit determination. We describe the high-level design of MOPS and essential subcomponents, the suitability of MOPS for other survey programs, and suggest a road map for future MOPS development.

引用

页码：357 / 395

页数：39

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