The Detection of Faint Asteroids by the Shifting and Stacking of Difference Images.

The amount of interest in asteroids, particularly near-Earth asteroids, has been slowly increasing the last few years. Early on, it was the fear of the potential hazards of an asteroid impact (which still remains); now, science and exploration are driving the motivation for detecting asteroids. By i...

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Main Author: Ashton, Edward James
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. Department of Physics and Astronomy 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10815