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Serendipitous Detection of Orbital Debris by the International Liquid Mirror Telescope: First Results

Paul HicksonDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, 6224 Agricultural Road, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, CanadaBhavya AilawadhiDepartment of Physics, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, 273009, IndiaTalat AkhunovUlugh Beg Astronomical Institute of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences, Astronomicheskaya 33, 100052 Tashkent, UzbekistanE. F. BorraDepartment of Physics, Université Laval, 2325, rue de l'Université, Québec, G1V 0A6, CanadaMonalisa DubeyDepartment of Applied Physics, Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, 243006, IndiaNaveen DukiyaAryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES (ARIES), Manora Peak, Nainital, 263001, IndiaJiuyang FuDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, 6224 Agricultural Road, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, CanadaBaldeep GrewalDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, 6224 Agricultural Road, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, CanadaBrajesh KumarAryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES (ARIES), Manora Peak, Nainital, 263001, IndiaKuntal MisraAryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES (ARIES), Manora Peak, Nainital, 263001, IndiaVibhore NegiAryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES (ARIES), Manora Peak, Nainital, 263001, IndiaKumar PranshuAryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES (ARIES), Manora Peak, Nainital, 263001, IndiaEthen SunDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, 6224 Agricultural Road, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, CanadaJean SurdejInstitute of Astrophysics and Geophysics, University of Liège, Allée du 6 Août 19c, 4000, Liège, Belgium

Bulletin de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liègejournal2024en

ABI

Аннотация

Orbital debris presents a growing risk to space operations, and is becoming a significant source of contamination of astronomical images. Much of the debris population is uncatalogued, making the impact more difficult to assess. We present initial results from the first ten nights of commissioning observations with the International Liquid Mirror Telescope, in which images were examined for streaks produced by orbiting objects including satellites, rocket bodies and other forms of debris. We detected 83 streaks and performed a correlation analysis to attempt to match these with objects in the public database. 48% of these objects were uncorrelated, indicating substantial incompleteness in the database, even for some relatively-bright objects. We were able to detect correlated objects to an estimated magnitude of 14.5 and possibly about two magnitudes greater for the faintest uncorrelated object.

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Space Satellite Systems and Control Facial Trauma and Fracture Management Space exploration and regulation

Идентификаторы

DOI: 10.25518/0037-9565.11920

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