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Astrometry and photometry of asteroids from the UkrVO database of astroplates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 May 2022

I.B. Vavilova
Affiliation:
Main Astronomical Observatory of the NAS of Ukraine, 27 Akademik Zabolotny str., Kyiv, 03143, Ukraine email: irivav@mao.kiev.ua
S.V. Shatokhina
Affiliation:
Main Astronomical Observatory of the NAS of Ukraine, 27 Akademik Zabolotny str., Kyiv, 03143, Ukraine email: irivav@mao.kiev.ua
L.K. Pakuliak
Affiliation:
Main Astronomical Observatory of the NAS of Ukraine, 27 Akademik Zabolotny str., Kyiv, 03143, Ukraine email: irivav@mao.kiev.ua
O.M. Yizhakevych
Affiliation:
Main Astronomical Observatory of the NAS of Ukraine, 27 Akademik Zabolotny str., Kyiv, 03143, Ukraine email: irivav@mao.kiev.ua
I. Eglitis
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, University of Latvia, Raina blvd. 19, Riga, LV-1586, Latvia
V.M. Andruk
Affiliation:
Main Astronomical Observatory of the NAS of Ukraine, 27 Akademik Zabolotny str., Kyiv, 03143, Ukraine email: irivav@mao.kiev.ua
Yu.I. Protsyuk
Affiliation:
Mykolaiv Astronomical Observatory, MES of Ukraine, 1 Observatorna str., Mykolaiv, 54000, Ukraine
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Abstract

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We present the developed methods of digitization, image processing, reduction, and scientific data mining with the latest reference catalogs, which allowed us to obtain a good positional and photometric accuracy in B-band of 6,500 asteroids down to 17.5m from the Ukrainian Virtual Observatory database of astroplates. The archive includes FON-Kyiv, FON-Kitab, FON-Dushanbe sky surveys (1981–1996) and astroplates of the Baldone and Tautenburg observatories. For some of asteroids, observations are either completely absent or not enough over the certain time interval to the moments of their official discoveries (about 300 such objects were found). Positional observations during these time scales are highly useful for a more detailed study of the dynamics and orbital parameters of asteroids as well as the obtained photometric parameters are very complementary with present-day data for studying changes in brightness and light curves.

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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of International Astronomical Union