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Solar System Object Image Search: A precovery search engine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2016

Stephen D. J. Gwyn ,
Norman Hill  and
JJ Kavelaars
Stephen D. J. Gwyn
Affiliation:
Canadian Astronomy Data Centre, National Research Council, 5071 West Saanich Rd, Victoria BC, V9E 2E7, Canada
Norman Hill
Affiliation:
Canadian Astronomy Data Centre, National Research Council, 5071 West Saanich Rd, Victoria BC, V9E 2E7, Canada
JJ Kavelaars
Affiliation:
Canadian Astronomy Data Centre, National Research Council, 5071 West Saanich Rd, Victoria BC, V9E 2E7, Canada
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Abstract

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While regular astronomical image archive searches can find images at a fixed location, they cannot find images of moving targets such as asteroids or comets. The Solar System Object Image Search (SSOIS) at the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre allows users to search for images of moving objects, allowing precoveries. SSOIS accepts as input either an object designation, a list of observations, a set of orbital elements, or a user-generated ephemeris for an object. It then searches for observations of that object over a range of dates. The user is then presented with a list of images containing that object from a variety of archives. Initially created to search the CFHT MegaCam archive, SSOIS has been extended to other telescopes including Gemini, Subaru/SuprimeCam, WISE, HST, the SDSS, AAT, the ING telescopes, the ESO telescopes, and the NOAO telescopes (KPNO/CTIO/WIYN), for a total of 24.5 million images. As the Pan-STARRS and Hyper Suprime-Cam archives become available, they will be incorporated as well. The SSOIS tool is located on the web at http://www.cadc-ccda.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/en/ssois/.

Keywords

astronomical data bases: miscellaneousastrometryminor planetsasteroidscomets: generalcelestial mechanics
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 10 , Issue S318: Asteroids: New Observations, New Models , August 2015 , pp. 270 - 273
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2016 

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