A new pipeline for astrometry and photometry of asteroids
Abstract
Using Python 3, astropy and astrometry.net, we have developed a pipeline to obtain photometric light curves of asteroids automatically queried by the SkyBoT database from sequential FITS images. The pipeline provides: pre-reduction of data, astrometry, standard differential photometry and light curves by auto-selecting multiple comparison stars (maximum user-defined) from NOMAD catalog via VizieR. The code is an open source, free and hosted on GitHub with the GNU GPL v3 license.
- Publication:
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IAU General Assembly
- Pub Date:
- March 2020
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921319003417
- Bibcode:
- 2020IAUGA..30...43K