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Sharma, Kritti; Kumar, Harsh; Choudhary, Harsh; Bhalerao, Varun; Swain, Vishwajeet; Bolin, Bryce; Anupama, G C; Barway, Sudhanshu; Joharle, Simran; Shenoy, Vedant
arXiv.org, 06/2023Paper, Journal Article
The detection and accurate astrometry of fast-moving near-Earth objects (NEOs) has been a challenge for the follow-up community. Their fast apparent motion results in streaks in sidereal images, thus affecting the telescope's limiting magnitude and astrometric accuracy. A widely adopted technique to mitigate trailing losses is non-sidereal tracking, which transfers the streaking to background reference stars. However, no existing publicly available astrometry software is configured to detect such elongated stars. We present Astreaks, a streaking source detection algorithm, to obtain accurate astrometry of NEOs in non-sidereal data. We validate the astrometric accuracy of Astreaks on 371 non-sidereally tracked images for 115 NEOs with two instrument set-ups of the GROWTH-India Telescope. The observed NEOs had V-band magnitude in the range 15, 22 with proper motion up to 140\(^{\prime\prime}\)/min, thus resulting in stellar streaks as high as 6.5\(^\prime\) (582 pixels) in our data. Our method obtained astrometric solutions for all images with 100% success rate. The standard deviation in Observed-minus-Computed (O-C) residuals is 0.52\(^{\prime\prime}\), with O-C residuals <2\(^{\prime\prime}\)(<1\(^{\prime\prime}\)) for 98.4% (84.4%) of our measurements. These are appreciable, given the pixel scale of \(\sim\)0.3\(^{\prime\prime}\) and \(\sim\)0.7\(^{\prime\prime}\) of our two instrument set-ups. This demonstrates that our modular and fully-automated algorithm helps improve the telescope system's limiting magnitude without compromising astrometric accuracy by enabling non-sidereal tracking on the target. This will help the NEO follow-up community cope with the accelerated discovery rates and improved sensitivity of the next-generation NEO surveys. Astreaks has been made available to the community under an open-source license.
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