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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 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 3.

Top: histogram of the mean apparent magnitude of the implanted synthetic sources, with an accounting of whether or not the sources were recovered. Bottom: best fit of our efficiency using Equation (20), including 68% and 95% confidence intervals. The best-fit parameters are η0 = 1.0, m50 = 29.21 ± 0.03, and σ = 0.11 ± 0.02.

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