ParaSOL

Solar System objects and space debris detection using parallel computing

Results

  1. Scientific articles:
    • [Published] “Discovery and physical characterization as the first response to a potential asteroid collision: The case of 2023 DZ2“; Authors: Popescu, Marcel M.; Văduvescu, O.; de León, J.; de la Fuente Marcos, C.; de la Fuente Marcos, R.; Stănescu, M. O.; Alarcon, M. R.; Serra Ricart, M.; Licandro, J.; Berteşteanu, D.; Predatu, M.; Curelaru, L.; Barwell, F.; Jhass, K.; Boldea, C.; Aznar Macías, A.; Hudin, L.; Dumitru, B. A. Astronomy & Astrophysics (Impact factor 6.5), Volume 676, id.A126, 14 pp., August 2023 Download document
    • [Published] Pre-perihelion monitoring of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov; Authors: Prodan, George P.; Popescu, Marcel; Licandro, Javier; Akhlaghi, Mohammad; de León, Julia; Tatsumi, Eri; Pastrav, Bogdan Adrian; Hibbert, Jacob M.; Vǎduvescu, Ovidiu; Simion, Nicolae Gabriel; Pallé, Enric; Narita, Norio; Fukui, Akihiko; Murgas, Felipe. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (Impact factor 6.5), Volume 529, Issue 4, pp.3521-3535, April 2024 Download document
    • [Published] Hubble Asteroid Hunter. III. Physical properties of newly found asteroids; García-Martín, Pablo; Kruk, Sandor; Popescu, Marcel; Merín, Bruno; Stapelfeldt, Karl R.; Evans, Robin W.; Carry, Benoit; Thomson, Ross; Astronomy & Astrophysics (Impact Factor 6.5), Volume 683, id.A122, 10 pp., March 2024 Download document
    • [Published] “Photometry of the Didymos system across the DART impact apparition“; Moskovitz, Nicholas ; …. Berteşteanu, Daniel N. ; …. Popescu, Marcel M. ; …. ; The Planetary Science Journal (Impact factor 3.4), Volume 5, Issue 2, id.35, 28 pp.; February 2024 Link
    • [To be submitted] “Data-parallel methods for fast and deep detection of asteroids on the Umbrella platform“; Mălin Octavian Stănescu, Marcel M. Popescu, Ovidiu Văduvescu, Lucian Curelaru, Daniel Nicolae Berteșteanu, and Marian Predatu
  2. Conferences
    • [Talk] Real-time synthetic tracking for near-Earth asteroids detection (M. Stănescu et al.); 8th IAA Planetary Defense Conference, 2023, Viena, Austria.
    • [Talk] Blink and You Miss It: Real-Time Synthetic Tracking for Near-Earth Object Surveys (Stănescu M. O. et al.) Asteroids, Comets, Meteors (ACM) 2023, Flagstaff, SUA
    • [Seminar] ParaSOL: data-parallel methods for fast and deep detection of asteroids on the Umbrella platform Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands, May 23 2024 Presentation
    • [Seminar]: Discovery and physical characterization as the first response to a potential asteroid collision ~The case of 2023 DZ 2 ~ Astronomical Institute of the ROMANIAN ACADEMY Presentation
  1. Our software:
    • Umbrella software package: Link (stored on our git server, requires authentification)
    • Webrella interface for inspecting and validating the results: Link
  2. Technical specifications :
  3. Observations reported to MPC:
    • 71069 observations reported to MPC. The results appeared in 112 MPECs – Daily Orbit Update
    • *** Notable discovery *** 2023 DZ2 (MPEC 2023-F12): Link
      • This object was catalogued as virtual impactor, with an intial maximum collision probability of 2.3%, and it passed at lesss then 0.5 LD.
      • This was highlighted in the media (please see Link and Link )
    • Other MPEC obtained with diffrent telescopes (KASI , T025 ):
      • 2022 SE37 (MPEC 2022-S368) Link
      • 2023 XC8 (MPEC 2023-X212) Link
      • 2023 XN11 (MPEC 2023-X270) Link
      • 2024 CW2 (MPEC 2024-C133) Edit
  4. Testing reports:
    • Testing report (Ro/En) Link
    • Automated testing results files Link
    • Observed minus computed for the observations measured with STU. 1.6m KASI — Left, 2.54m INT right
    • The differences between STU reported data (our program) and the positions computed using and the NASA JPL/Horizons ephemerides web-server for 262 objects observed with the 1.52 m Carlos Sánchez telescope.
  5. Data archives : We worked with observations from the following telescopes
    (legend:
    [operated by ParaSOL team]
    [Time Allocation Committee (TAC) award]
    [archival data]
    )
    • 073_T025_QHY294M
    • 304_Warsaw_OGLE
    • 309_VLTVST_OMEGACAM
    • 807_KASI
    • 807_SARA_Andor
    • 807_T80S
    • 950_GTC_OSIRIS
    • 950_INT_WFC
    • 950_JKT
    • 950_WHT_PFQHY
    • 954_TCS_MuSCAT2
    • M30_C11_ATIK383L
    • XXX_Chakana_FLI
    • Z58_TBT
  6. Reports: