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The Light Curve Simulation and Its Inversion Problem for Human-Made Space Objects

Shape and attitude of near-Earth objects directly affect the orbit propagation via drag and solar radiation pressure. Obtaining information beyond the object states (position and velocity) is integral to identifying an object. It also enables tracing origin and can improve the orbit accuracy. For objects that have a significant distance to the observer, only non-resolved imaging is available, which does not show any details of the object. So-called non-resolved light curve measurements, i.e. photometric measurements over time can be used to determined the shape of space objects using a two step inversion scheme. It follows the procedure to first determine the Extended Gaussian Image and then going through the shape reconstruction process to retrieve the closed shape even while measurement noise is present. Furthermore, it is also possible to generate high confidence candidates when follow-up observations are provided through a multi-hypotheses process.

  1. 10.25394/pgs.12749570.v1
Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:purdue.edu/oai:figshare.com:article/12749570
Date03 August 2020
CreatorsSiwei Fan (9193685)
Source SetsPurdue University
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeText, Thesis
Relationhttps://figshare.com/articles/thesis/The_Light_Curve_Simulation_and_Its_Inversion_Problem_for_Human-Made_Space_Objects/12749570

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