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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 B1.

Skybot-estimated V-band magnitude vs. the MLE divided by the number of frames in a subfield. Blue points indicate hits matching with objects known to Skybot, while the black line indicates the line of best fit given in Equation (B1). We attempt to use the line of best fit to estimate a conversion rate from MLE to V magnitude for our discovery candidates. ﹩\sqrt{{\rm{MLE}}}﹩ is divided by the number of frames, since ﹩\sqrt{{\rm{MLE}}}﹩ is given by the sum of the S/N of each frame, so ﹩\frac{\sqrt{{\rm{MLE}}}}{N}﹩ is equivalent to the average S/N for one frame of the hit.

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