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Note, Paper: Better Netter

This August’s Astronomical Journal (vol. 170 #2) includes:

López-Oquendo, A. J. Hora, J. L. Trilling, D. E. et al.  Thermal and Optical Characterization of Near-Earth Objects: Science Commissioning of the Recently Upgraded Mid-infrared… 82   ade398
Holman, M. J. Bernardinelli, P. H. Schwamb, M. E. et al.  Sorcha: Optimized Solar System
Ephemeris Generation  97  ade435
Murtagh, J. Schwamb, M. E. Merritt, S. R. et al.  Predictions of the LSST Solar System Yield: Discovery Rates and Characterization of Centaurs  98  ade1db
Kurlander, J. A. Bernardinelli, P. H. Schwamb, M. E. et al.  Predictions of the LSST Solar System Yield: Near-Earth Objects, Main Belt Asteroids, Jupiter Trojans, and Trans-Nept…  99  add685
Merritt, S. R. Fedorets, G. Schwamb, M. E. et al.  Sorcha: A Solar System Survey Simulator for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time  100  add3ec

The full title of López-Oquendo et al. is “Thermal and Optical Characterization of Near-Earth Objects: Science Commissioning of the Recently Upgraded Mid-infrared Camera MIRSI on the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility”, and hey, truth in advertising. The IRTF is, by some metrics, the top characterizer of asteroids, via instruments like MIRSI.

As for Holman et al., Murtagh et al., Kurlander et al., and Merritt et al., I covered these in a previous post, when the papers were in preprint. Now we have the ‘official’ (published, peer-reviewed science journal) edition of the works. The Vera Rubin Observatory, though not reaching into the infrared like IRTF, may give it serious competition by volume alone.

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