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LSST association pipeline and time/space link catalog |
The endeavour to build the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) project is a
huge undertaking. See
lsst.org
for details. Not surprisingly, a significant part of the system is the data
processing pipeline. In the Univeresity of Arizona Computer Science department,
several of us are interested in the temporal linking observations of objects assumed to be
asteroids to establish orbits and build data systems for querying the emerging
time/space catalog. One of the goals of this research is to help identify
potentially hazardous asteroids. This is joint work with
Alon Efrat,
Bongki Moon,
Andrew Connolly and others at the University of Pittsburg,
and the hundreds of individuals working on the
LSST project.