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  Assemble lightcurves of a large set of Jovian Trojan asteroids. Analyze for rotational signatures, derive periodicities.
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Solar system object follow-up and monitoring with Nieves Observatory

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At Soka University of America, in Aliso Viejo CA (near Irvine) we have a robotic/programmable 0.3-meter system which includes a FLI CDK14 telescope and mount, and an FLI Proline CCD camera. We call it the Nieves Observatory at Soka University of America: https://sites.soka.edu/SUO/
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At Soka University of America, in Aliso Viejo CA (near Irvine) we have a robotic/programmable 0.3-meter system which includes a FLI CDK14 telescope and mount, and an FLI Proline CCD camera. We call it the Nieves Observatory at Soka University of America: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sites.soka.edu/SUO/&source=gmail&ust=1663198518713000&usg=AOvVaw3xoRDQr5jh1djA6CrRom_F" href="https://sites.soka.edu/SUO/" target="_blank">https://sites.soka.edu/SUO/</a>
  We have been monitoring a selection of Near-Earth asteroids and comets, and welcome suggestions for new monitoring campaigns.
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Planet 9

Identify fields of interest for "Planet 9" and examine for direct detections of the object.

Team: Nate Golovich, Travis Yeager

Deliverables: Refereed papers

Earth Trojans

Dynamical study and discovery of asteroids in and around the Earth L4 and L5 points.

Team: Nate Golovich, Travis Yeager

Deliverables: Refereed papers

Taurid complex NEA swarm

Observe the Taurid meteoroid stream complex to discover associated near-Earth asteroids.

Team: Quanzhi Ye, Kumar Venkataramani

Deliverables: Refereed papers

Anomalous asteroids

Aggregate a large, multifaceted data set on asteroids, from lightcurves to orbits. Examine for outliers.

Team: Ashish Mahabal

Deliverables: Refereed papers

Jovian Trojan asteroid rotational dynamics

Assemble lightcurves of a large set of Jovian Trojan asteroids. Analyze for rotational signatures, derive periodicities.

Team: Zeljko Ivezic, Lynne Jones, and students

Deliverables: Refereed papers

29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 HST+Swift+ZTF outburst study

Study the dynamics and composition of well-observed outbursts of comet 29P through a multi-telescope project.

Team: Dennis Bodewits, Michael Kelley, Quanzhi Ye, post-docs / students

Deliverables: Refereed papers

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Asteroidal phase curves

 
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Abstract: searching for near-Earth objects (NEOs) in all ZTF datasets.
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Derive asteroidal phase curves for a large set of objects, and use the results to interpret the physical properties of the asteroidal population.
 
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NEOZTF Scanning Instructions

Comet Outburst Discovery and Follow-Up

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Team: Zhong-Yi Lin, Wing Ip

Deliverables: Refereed paper

 
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Spectroscopic studies of Themis family asteroids with SEDM

 
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Abstract: We examine all ZTF observations of known comets to measure their brightness and morphologies. We are looking for deviations from their baseline activity trends in order to discover outbursts, and identify events for follow-up studies.
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Study reflectance spectra of Themis family asteroids at different orbital phases, to investigate the potential presence of water ice and its variability with heliocentric distance.
 
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We use the ZChecker ( UMD, Caltech) software for outburst discovery (user: ztf, password: enckeekcne).

Active Asteroid Warning System

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Deliverables: Refereed paper
 
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Abstract: early alert of potential active asteroids.

Super-fast Rotator and rotation period Survey

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Solar system object follow-up and monitoring with Nieves Observatory

 
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Twilight Survey

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We have been monitoring a selection of Near-Earth asteroids and comets, and welcome suggestions for new monitoring campaigns.
 
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Abstract: constraining the population of Atira and 'Ayló'chaxnim asteroids with ZTF Twilight observations.
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C/2022 E3 (ZTF)

 
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TNO Survey
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Targeted follow-up spectroscopy and photometry of this potentially bright comet.
 
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Synthetic Tracking Experiment

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NEO and small body discoveries with ZTF

 
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Identify, discovery, and measure astrometry of near-Earth objects, objects interior to Earth/Venus orbit, interstellar objects. Exploit ZTF surveys with ZStreaks, DeepStreaks, ZMODE, and Tails.
 
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Abstract: testing the synthetic tracking technique.

Sparse/Long-term lightcurve fitting

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NEOZTF Scanning Instructions
 
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Lead: Lynne Jones (there is overlap with projects by Rex Chang, and Daniela Huppenkothen is the lead for the Gaussian Processes portion of the project, which includes non-ZTF experiments and data too).
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Team: George Helou, Tom Prince, Kumar Venkataramani, Quanzhi Ye, with contributions from students and follow-up observers
 
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Abstract: We are attempting to understand best methods for fitting rotation curves, and (next-up) phase curves, for known asteroids detected by ZTF. Currently we are using the alert photometry, but hope to extend this to using matchfile photometry. One area of investigation is fitting the rotational light curve with simple two-component Fourier models; another area is fitting lightcurves with Gaussian Processes.
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Deliverables: Astrometry to the Minor Planet Center
 
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Rotation period using sparse lightcurve

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NEO co-discovery with Sierra Remote Observatory

 
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PhD student: Ting-Shuo Yeh
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Goal is to execute rapid automated follow-up of fast moving candidate NEO tracklets found in ZTF data with SRO.
 
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Supervisor: Chan-Kao Chang (Rex)
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Team: Tom Prince, George Helou, Kumar Vekataramani, JPL
 
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I have conducted a rotation period survey using CNEOST (China) and KMTNet (Korea) for my master thesis. I would like to continue this work using sparse lightcurve obtained by ZTF. The fitting method includes Fourier series and HG.

Tracklet-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery (THOR) on ZTF

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Deliverables: Astrometry to the Minor Planet Center
 
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Prompt cometary outburst discovery and follow-up

 
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We examine all ZTF observations of known comets to measure their brightness and morphologies. We are looking for deviations from their baseline activity trends in order to discover outbursts, and identify events for follow-up studies.
 
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We have built a minor planet detection linking algorithm capable of discovering moving objects at high completeness without the need to build or observe tracklets. We have run it on two weeks of ZTF detections (finding 97% of all known moving objects with at least 5 detections) and are now working on running it on all of ZTF's detections.
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We use the ZChecker software to process ZTF data nightly. Online interface at zbrowser2.mkelley.dev, contact Mike Kelley for access.
 
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Rotation period of TNOs using ZTF sparse lightcurves

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Team: Mike Kelley, and any interested follow-up observer
 
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Master student: HanJie Tan
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Deliverables: Public announcements via telegrams
 
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Archival cometary outburst search and summary

 
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Identify all cometary outbursts in ZTF data. Analyze results as a statistical data set, and investigate individual events on a case-by-case basis.
 
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Twilight Survey

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Abstract: constraining the population of Atira and 'Ayló'chaxnim asteroids with ZTF Twilight observations.

 
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Abstract: dedicated NEO search using 12-18 deg twilight time.

TNO Survey

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 Abstract: searching for near-Earth objects (NEOs) in all ZTF datasets.

NEOZTF Scanning Instructions

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Comet Monitoring

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Comet Outburst Discovery and Follow-Up

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We use the ZChecker ( UMD, Caltech) software for outburst discovery (user: ztf, password: enckeekcne).
 

Active Asteroid Warning System

Lead: Quanzhi Ye

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  We have built a minor planet detection linking algorithm capable of discovering moving objects at high completeness without the need to build or observe tracklets. We have run it on two weeks of ZTF detections (finding 97% of all known moving objects with at least 5 detections) and are now working on running it on all of ZTF's detections.
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Rotation period of TNOs using ZTF sparse lightcurves

Master student: HanJie Tan

Supervisor: Chan-Kao Chang (Rex)

The rotation periods of TNOs are very limited. We have extracted the light curves of TNOs from ZTF archive PSF source catalogs and are analyzing thier rotation periods and phase curve. We hope to add some reliable rotation periods of TNOs to the current inventory.

 

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I have conducted a rotation period survey using CNEOST (China) and KMTNet (Korea) for my master thesis. I would like to continue this work using sparse lightcurve obtained by ZTF. The fitting method includes Fourier series and HG.
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I have conducted a rotation period survey using CNEOST (China) and KMTNet (Korea) for my master thesis. I would like to continue this work using sparse lightcurve obtained by ZTF. The fitting method includes Fourier series and HG.

Tracklet-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery (THOR) on ZTF

PhD student: Joachim Moeyens

Supervisor: Mario Juric

We have built a minor planet detection linking algorithm capable of discovering moving objects at high completeness without the need to build or observe tracklets. We have run it on two weeks of ZTF detections (finding 97% of all known moving objects with at least 5 detections) and are now working on running it on all of ZTF's detections.

 

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Comet Monitoring

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Abstract: We are attempting to understand best methods for fitting rotation curves, and (next-up) phase curves, for known asteroids detected by ZTF. Currently we are using the alert photometry, but hope to extend this to using matchfile photometry. One area of investigation is fitting the rotational light curve with simple two-component Fourier models; another area is fitting lightcurves with Gaussian Processes.

Lead: Lynne Jones (there is overlap with projects by Rex Chang, and Daniela Huppenkothen is the lead for the Gaussian Processes portion of the project, which includes non-ZTF experiments and data too).

 

Thesis Projects

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Comet Monitoring

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Leads: Mike Kelley, Dennis Bodewits

zchecker daily digest (UMD)

Super-fast Rotator Survey

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Lead: Chan-Kao Chang

Twilight Survey

Abstract: dedicated NEO search using 12-18 deg twilight time.

Lead: Quanzhi Ye

TNO Survey

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Leads: Rich Dekany, Mike Brown

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Synthetic Tracking Experiment

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Thesis Projects

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Postdoc Projects

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