BINA 2023, Paul Hickson et al. : submitted pdf paper "Serendipitous Detection of Orbital Debris by the International Liquid Mirror Telescope: First Result"
[en] Orbital debris presents a growing risk to space operations, and is becoming a significant source of contamination of astronomical images. Much of the debris population is uncatalogued, making the impact more difficult to assess. We present initial results from the first ten nights of commissioning observations with the International Liquid Mirror Telescope, in which images were examined for streaks produced by orbiting objects including satellites, rocket bodies and other forms of debris. We detected 83 streaks and performed a correlation analysis to attempt to match these with objects in the public database. 48% of these objects were uncorrelated, indicating substantial incompleteness in the database, even for some relatively-bright objects. We were able to detect correlated objects to an estimated magnitude of 14.5 and possibly about two magnitudes greater for the faintest uncorrelated object.
Disciplines :
Space science, astronomy & astrophysics
Author, co-author :
Hickson, Paul; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Ailawadhi, Bhavya; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, Nainital, India ; Deen Dayal, Upadhyay Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, India
Akhunov, Talat; National University of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan ; Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Borra, Ermanno; Laval University, Quebec, Canada
Dubey, Monalisa; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, Nainital, India ; Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, India
Dukiya, Naveen; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, Nainital, India ; Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, India
Fu, Jiuyang; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Grewal, Baldeep; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Kumar, Brajesh; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, Nainital, India
Misra, Kuntal; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, Nainital, India
Negi, Vibhore; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, Nainital, India ; Deen Dayal, Upadhyay Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, India
Pranshu, Kumar; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, Nainital, India ; University off Calcutta, Kolkata, India
Sun, Ethen; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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