TY - JOUR
T1 - The Solar System Notification Alert Processing System (SNAPS)
T2 - Design, Architecture, and First Data Release (SNAPShot1)
AU - Trilling, David E.
AU - Gowanlock, Michael
AU - Kramer, Daniel
AU - McNeill, Andrew
AU - Donnelly, Brian
AU - Butler, Nat
AU - Kececioglu, John
N1 - Funding Information:
We acknowledge many useful conversations with Colin Chandler; with Tom Matheson and the ANTARES team; with Mike Kelley, Henry Hsieh, and Davide Farnocchia; and with Mario Juric and Siegfried Eggl. This work has significantly benefited from all of their expertize. We thank Steve Chesley for a very helpful review of this paper.
Funding Information:
ZTF is a public-private partnership, with equal support from the ZTF Partnership and from the U.S. National Science Foundation through the Mid-Scale Innovations Program (MSIP). The ZTF partnership is a consortium of the following universities and institutions (listed in descending longitude): TANGO Consortium of Taiwan; Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Israel; Oskar Klein Center, Stockholm University, Sweden; Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron & Humboldt University, Germany; Ruhr University, Germany; Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules, France; University of Warwick, UK; Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland; University of Maryland, College Park, USA; Northwestern University, Evanston, USA; University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA; IPAC, Caltech, USA; Caltech, USA.
Funding Information:
We acknowledge support from the Arizona Board of Regents’ Regents Innovation Fund. Additionally, some of the computational analyses were run on Northern Arizona University's Monsoon computing cluster, funded by Arizona's Technology and Research Initiative Fund. This material is also based in part upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant No. 2042155 to M.G.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.
PY - 2023/3/1
Y1 - 2023/3/1
N2 - We present here the design, architecture, and first data release for the Solar System Notification Alert Processing System (SNAPS). SNAPS is a solar system broker that ingests alert data from all-sky surveys. At present, we ingest data from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) public survey, and we will ingest data from the forthcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) when it comes online. SNAPS is an official LSST downstream broker. In this paper we present the SNAPS design goals and requirements. We describe the details of our automatic pipeline processing in which the physical properties of asteroids are derived. We present SNAPShot1, our first data release, which contains 5,458,459 observations of 31,693 asteroids observed by ZTF from 2018 July to 2020 May. By comparing a number of derived properties for this ensemble to previously published results for overlapping objects we show that our automatic processing is highly reliable. We present a short list of science results, among many that will be enabled by our SNAPS catalog: (1) we demonstrate that there are no known asteroids with very short periods and high amplitudes, which clearly indicates that in general asteroids in the size range 0.3-20 km are strengthless; (2) we find no difference in the period distributions of Jupiter Trojan asteroids, implying that the L4 and L5 clouds have different shape distributions; and (3) we highlight several individual asteroids of interest. Finally, we describe future work for SNAPS and our ability to operate at LSST scale.
AB - We present here the design, architecture, and first data release for the Solar System Notification Alert Processing System (SNAPS). SNAPS is a solar system broker that ingests alert data from all-sky surveys. At present, we ingest data from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) public survey, and we will ingest data from the forthcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) when it comes online. SNAPS is an official LSST downstream broker. In this paper we present the SNAPS design goals and requirements. We describe the details of our automatic pipeline processing in which the physical properties of asteroids are derived. We present SNAPShot1, our first data release, which contains 5,458,459 observations of 31,693 asteroids observed by ZTF from 2018 July to 2020 May. By comparing a number of derived properties for this ensemble to previously published results for overlapping objects we show that our automatic processing is highly reliable. We present a short list of science results, among many that will be enabled by our SNAPS catalog: (1) we demonstrate that there are no known asteroids with very short periods and high amplitudes, which clearly indicates that in general asteroids in the size range 0.3-20 km are strengthless; (2) we find no difference in the period distributions of Jupiter Trojan asteroids, implying that the L4 and L5 clouds have different shape distributions; and (3) we highlight several individual asteroids of interest. Finally, we describe future work for SNAPS and our ability to operate at LSST scale.
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U2 - 10.3847/1538-3881/acac7f
DO - 10.3847/1538-3881/acac7f
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85148673848
SN - 0004-6256
VL - 165
JO - Astronomical Journal
JF - Astronomical Journal
IS - 3
M1 - 111
ER -