VRO's LSST Detects NEOs
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•The Rubin observatory will unleash a flood of NEO detections, say researchers
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New research shows the Vera Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time will detect about 130 NEOs per night in the first year of observations.
NEOs are small solar system bodies, usually asteroids, that orbit the sun and come within 1.3 astronomical units of the sun.
Most of the NEOs the LSST finds will be found using a method called "tracklet linking".
Researchers simulated almost 3,600 days of the LSST, consisting of almost 1 billion observations.
They selected observations that corresponded to tracklets, which constrain potential orbits.
The number of candidate NEOs is still overwhelming, but purity would rise over time.
The algorithm would only improve accuracy minimally, but it would reduce follow-up workload by a factor of two .
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