IntroPan-STARRSMoving Object Processing System

Robert JedickeInstitute for AstronomyUniversity of Hawaii

MOPS

The MOPS Team (IfA)

Robert JedickeAssociate Specialist

Joe MasieroGraduate Student

Tommy GravJunior Scientific Researcher

Larry DenneauSenior Software Engineer

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70%

25%

70%

2.65 FTE

The MOPS Team (IfA)

Jim HeasleySenior Professor

David TholenSenior Professor

The MOPS Team (External)

Andrea MilaniUniversity of Pisa

Mikko KaasalainenUniversity of Helsinki

Jeremy KubicaCarnegie Mellon Robotics Institute

Steven ChesleyJet Propulson Laboratory

The MOPS Team (extended?)

LSST Software Engineer

UH ICS Graduate Student

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Moving Object Processing System

Telescopes&

Survey

ImageProcessing

PipelineMOPS

Pan-STARRS

Solar System Surveying Moving Object Processing System

Solar System Survey

Evening Sweet Spot Morning Sweet SpotOpposition

19:00 HST 00:00 HST 05:00 HST

Solar System Survey Simulator

Opposition660 fields

~4,360 deg2

Evening/Morning sweet-spots84 fields each

~550 deg2 each

TOTAL828 fields

~5,460 deg2

Ecliptic Longitude w.r.t. Opposition

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• Every survey mode obtains at least twoimages at each location separated by a Transient Time Interval (15-30 minutes) serendipitous positions &

colours• Solar system survey re-visits each

location after 3-6 days obtain 3-4 nights/month ~12 day arc

Observing Strategy • Every survey mode obtains at least

twoimages at each location separated by a Transient Time Interval (15-30 minutes) serendipitous positions &

colours• Solar system survey re-visits each

location after 3-6 days obtain 3-4 nights/month ~12 day arc

Transient Detection (IPP)

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Combined

4 Telescopes

Moving

Stationary

Static

Transients

Moving Object Processing System

Intra-Night Linking (Tracklets)

First exposureSecond exposure

• 250 real detections / deg2

• 250 false detections / deg2

Attributions

Legend

TrackletsKnown Objects

Inter-Night Tracklet Linking (tracks)

FirstNight

SecondNight

ThirdNight

FourthNight

FifthNight

Legend

Initial Orbit Determination

Legend

First Night

Third Night

Second Night

Good IOD

Bad IOD

Differential Orbit Determination

Legend

First Night

Third Night

Second Night

IOD

OD

Orbit Identification

Moving Object Processing System

MOPS Synthetic Solar System

250,000 Near Earth Objects (w/ IEOs, H<25)

10,000,000 Main Belt

320,000 Trojans (Jupiter)

100,000 Trojans (Mars,Saturn,Uranus)

60,000 Centaurs

72,000 Trans-Neptunian Objects

20,000 Scattered Disk Objects

Jupiter Family Comets

Halley Family Comets

10,000 Long Period Comets

0 Xtreme Objects

10,842,000 TOTAL

10,000

NEO Sky-Plane Density

Sweet-Spot Motion Vectors

Efficiency (old)Type

Present

Findable

Clean OD Cumulative

30day AREE

S0 95 33% 87.1%100.0%

87.1% 0.39

S1 182 65% 97.5%100.0%

97.5% 0.25

St 3866 79% 99.9%100.0%

99.9% 0.30

SC 26 81%100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

0.23

ST 3 100%100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

0.15

SS 155 92%100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

0.12

Sc 11 64% 85.7%100.0%

85.7% 0.25

XX 8 50% 75.0%100.0%

75.0% 0.38

Total 4346 78% 99.6%100.0%

99.6% 0.29

MOPS Data Collection Interface

http://mopsdc.ifa.hawaii.edu/

Synthetic or Real Data

• MB/100 + everything else

• realistic survey pattern

• astrometric error

• photometric error

• light curves

• false detections

MOPS Data Collection Interface

MOPS Data Collection Interface

MOPS Data Collection Interface

Moving Object Processing System

MOPS Data Collection Interface

MOPS Data Collection Interface

Moving Object Processing System

MOPS sub-system prototypes

Intra-night linking of detectionsAttributionInter-night linking of trackletsInitial orbit determinationDifferential orbit determinationOrbit identificationPrecovery searchEfficiency Determinator

MOPS continuing development

IPP InterfacesPSPSPS InterfacesOrbit clean-up / maintenanceSimulating different survey

strategiesIncorporating Milani codeDevelop testing / regression suiteMore tests on real survey dataIdentifying asteroids in images

MOPS continuing development

Identifying comets in imagesExtracting tracklet postage

stampsInterface w/ impact calculators

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