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heliostack: A Novel Approach to Minor Planet Discovery

  • Authors: Kevin J. Napier, Matthew J. Holman, Hsing Wen Lin, 省文 林, David W. Gerdes, Thomas R. Ruch

Kevin J. Napier et al 2026 The Planetary Science Journal 7 .

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Caption: Figure 1.

Left: the canvas (approximately 14,000 × 13,000 pixels) after stacking all 1118 images for some initial condition. The inset plot shows the lone peak above 7σ in the stack, which turns out to be a 21σ detection of 2003 BH91. Since the asserted parameters are not quite correct, the detection is somewhat smeared. Right: a heat map of the number of images that contributed to each pixel in the significance image.

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