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http://dx.doi.org/10.5140/JASS.2005.22.4.393

ALGORITHMS FOR MOVING OBJECT DETECTION: YSTAR-NEOPAT SURVEY PROGRAM  

Bae, Young-Ho (University Observatory & Department of Astronomy, Yonsei University)
Byun, Yong-Ik (University Observatory & Department of Astronomy, Yonsei University)
Kang, Yong-Woo (University Observatory & Department of Astronomy, Yonsei University)
Park, Sun-Youp (University Observatory & Department of Astronomy, Yonsei University)
Oh, Se-Heon (University Observatory & Department of Astronomy, Yonsei University)
Yu, Seoung-Yeol (University Observatory & Department of Astronomy, Yonsei University)
Han, Won-Young (Near Earth Object PATrol Lab., Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute)
Yim, Hong-Suh (Near Earth Object PATrol Lab., Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute)
Moon, Hong-Kyu (Near Earth Object PATrol Lab., Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute)
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Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences / v.22, no.4, 2005 , pp. 393-408 More about this Journal
Abstract
We developed and compared two automatic algorithms for moving object detections in the YSTAR-NEOPAT sky survey program. One method, called starlist comparison method, is to identify moving object candidates by comparing the photometry data tables from successive images. Another method, called image subtraction method, is to identify the candidates by subtracting one image from another which isolates sources moving against background stars. The efficiency and accuracy of these algorithms have been tested using actual survey data from the YSTAR-NEOPAT telescope system. For the detected candidates, we performed eyeball inspection of animated images to confirm validity of asteroid detections. Main conclusions include followings. First, the optical distortion in the YSTAR-NEOPAT wide-field images can be properly corrected by comparison with USNO-B1.0 catalog and the astrometric accuracy can be preserved at around 1.5 arcsec. Secondly, image subtraction provides more robust and accurate detection of moving objects. For two different thresholds of 2.0 and $4.0\sigma$, image subtraction method uncovered 34 and 12 candidates and most of them are confirmed to be real. Starlist comparison method detected many more candidates, 60 and 6 for each threshold level, but nearly half of them turned out to be false detections.
Keywords
asteroids; moving object detection; photometry;
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