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Discovery of Hundreds of Main-belt Asteroids with Synthetic Tracking of WISE Data

  • Authors: Emerson A. Whittaker, Jean-Luc Margot

Emerson A. Whittaker and Jean-Luc Margot 2026 The Planetary Science Journal 7 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 11.

Images of two candidates with MLE = 8.3 dB at the beginning, middle, and end of SALTAD processing. The top three images show the detections of asteroid 198452. The top row shows the raw frames as read by SALTAD with any nondata values replaced by the mean value of the subframe. The middle row shows the same images after the image equalization step. The bottom image shows the same frames after convolution with the WISE PSF, as the frames are when they are shifted and stacked by SALTAD. The bottom three rows show a discovery candidate. Top, middle, and bottom rows are as before.

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