A Well-Characterized Survey for Centaurs in Pan-STARRS1
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| author | Kurlander, Jacob A. Holman, Matthew J. Bernardinelli, Pedro H. Juric, Mario Heinze, Aren N. Payne, Matthew J. |
| author_facet | Kurlander, Jacob A. Holman, Matthew J. Bernardinelli, Pedro H. Juric, Mario Heinze, Aren N. Payne, Matthew J. |
| contents | To prepare for the upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time, we develop methods for quantifying the selection function of a wide-field survey as a function of all six orbital parameters and absolute magnitude. We perform a HelioLinC3D search for Centaurs in the Pan-STARRS1 detection catalog and use a synthetic debiasing population to characterize our survey's selection function. We find nine new objects, including Centaur 2010 RJ$_{226}$, among 320 real objects, along with $\sim$70,000 debiasing objects. We use the debiasing population to fit a selection function and apply the selection function to a model Centaur population with literature orbital and size distributions. We confirm the model's marginal distributions but reject its joint distribution, and estimate an intrinsic population of 21,400$^{+3,400}_{-2,800}$ Centaurs with $H_r < 13.7$. The discovery of only nine new objects in archival data verifies that the Pan-STARRS discovery pipeline had high completeness, but also shows that new linking algorithms can contribute even to traditional single-tracklet surveys. As the first systematic application of HelioLinC3D to a survey with extensive sky coverage, this project proves the viability of HelioLinC3D as a discovery algorithm for big-data wide-field surveys. |
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| spellingShingle | A Well-Characterized Survey for Centaurs in Pan-STARRS1 Kurlander, Jacob A. Holman, Matthew J. Bernardinelli, Pedro H. Juric, Mario Heinze, Aren N. Payne, Matthew J. Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics To prepare for the upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time, we develop methods for quantifying the selection function of a wide-field survey as a function of all six orbital parameters and absolute magnitude. We perform a HelioLinC3D search for Centaurs in the Pan-STARRS1 detection catalog and use a synthetic debiasing population to characterize our survey's selection function. We find nine new objects, including Centaur 2010 RJ$_{226}$, among 320 real objects, along with $\sim$70,000 debiasing objects. We use the debiasing population to fit a selection function and apply the selection function to a model Centaur population with literature orbital and size distributions. We confirm the model's marginal distributions but reject its joint distribution, and estimate an intrinsic population of 21,400$^{+3,400}_{-2,800}$ Centaurs with $H_r < 13.7$. The discovery of only nine new objects in archival data verifies that the Pan-STARRS discovery pipeline had high completeness, but also shows that new linking algorithms can contribute even to traditional single-tracklet surveys. As the first systematic application of HelioLinC3D to a survey with extensive sky coverage, this project proves the viability of HelioLinC3D as a discovery algorithm for big-data wide-field surveys. |
| title | A Well-Characterized Survey for Centaurs in Pan-STARRS1 |
| topic | Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01687 |