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EDP Sciences, Astronomy & Astrophysics, (652), p. A59, 2021

DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202140430

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A million asteroid observations in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Journal article published in 2021 by Alexey V. Sergeyev ORCID, Benoit Carry ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

Context.The populations of small bodies of the Solar System (asteroids, comets, Kuiper-Belt objects) are used to constrain the origin and evolution of the Solar System. Both their orbital distribution and composition distribution are required to track the dynamical pathway from their regions of formation to their current locations.Aims.We aim at increasing the sample of Solar System objects that have multi-filter photometry and compositional taxonomy.Methods.We search for moving objects in the archive of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We attempt at maximizing the number of detections by using loose constraints on the extraction. We then apply a suite of filters to remove false-positive detections (stars or galaxies) and mark out spurious photometry and astrometry.Results.We release a catalog of 1 542 522 entries, consisting of 1 036 322 observations of 379 714 known and unique SSOs together with 506 200 observations of moving sources not linked with any known SSOs. The catalog completeness is estimated to be about 95% and the purity to be above 95% for known SSOs.