Products
Observations delivery to MPC, CDS & PDS
Delivery of photometric & lightcurve measurement to the Minor Planet Center (MPC), the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS), the Planetary Data Systems (PDS), and other data archives.
Occultation predictions
Based on publicly available and own tools, together with multiple campaigns of dedicated astrometric observations, we make regular predictions of occultation events produced by our SBNAF sample targets. Step-by-step we also phase in information from the Gaia mission to improve the accuracy of the predicted shadow pathes. We focus on occultation predictions for Europe (mainly Spain) and South America (mainly Argentina and neighbours) where we are in close contact with networks of well-trained observers.
User Provided Data Products for the Herschel Science Archive
The SBNAF project produces high-quality data products for small body observations of the Herschel Space Observatory. These products are based on sophisticated, solar-system specific reduction and calibration schemes. The products cover many Herschel science projects, as well as calibration observations. The products are sorted by object types (near-Earth, main-belt, trans-Neptunian objects) and split up in several SBNAF deliverables.
Asteroid-related calibration
The SBNAF project supports worldwide calibration activities for ground-/airborne-/space-projects at mid-IR/far-IR/submm/mm wavelengths by providing highly reliable model predictions of selected well-known asteroids. These activities are documented in a series of deliverables which are produced as part of WP4 of the SBNAF project.
Delivery of photometric & lightcurve measurement to the Minor Planet Center (MPC), the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS), the Planetary Data Systems (PDS), and other data archives.
- D5.9 Observations delivery to MPC, CDS & PDS (5 Apr 2019)
Occultation predictions
Based on publicly available and own tools, together with multiple campaigns of dedicated astrometric observations, we make regular predictions of occultation events produced by our SBNAF sample targets. Step-by-step we also phase in information from the Gaia mission to improve the accuracy of the predicted shadow pathes. We focus on occultation predictions for Europe (mainly Spain) and South America (mainly Argentina and neighbours) where we are in close contact with networks of well-trained observers.
- D5.1 Occultation candidates for 2016 (30 Apr 2016)
- D5.2 Occultation candidates for 2017 (31 Dec 2016)
- D5.3 Occultation candidates for 2018 (31 Dec 2017)
- Occultation predictions for 2019 (zip file)
User Provided Data Products for the Herschel Science Archive
The SBNAF project produces high-quality data products for small body observations of the Herschel Space Observatory. These products are based on sophisticated, solar-system specific reduction and calibration schemes. The products cover many Herschel science projects, as well as calibration observations. The products are sorted by object types (near-Earth, main-belt, trans-Neptunian objects) and split up in several SBNAF deliverables.
- D2.1 Herschel tools (30 Sep 2016)
- Herschel-PACS data reduction: special tools for SSOs (gzipped tar-file)
- D2.2 NEA HSA upload (31 Dec 2016)
- Release note for UPDP submission to ESA's HSC
- UPDP FITS files (tar.gz; 19.8 MB)
- D2.3 MBA HSA upload (31 Mar 2017)
- Release note for UPDP submission to ESA's HSC (CK, Mar 28, 2017; pdf)
- UPDP FITS files (tar.gz; 23.3 MB)
- D2.4 TNO HSA upload (30 Sep 2017)
- Release note (standard TNOs-are-cool targets) for UPDP submission to ESA's HSC (pdf)
- UPDP FITS files (standard TNOs-are-cool targets) (tar.gz; 458 MB)
- Release note (TNO lightcurve targets) for UPDP submission to ESA's HSC (pdf)
- UPDP FITS files (TNO lightcurve targets) (tar.gz; 970 MB)
Asteroid-related calibration
The SBNAF project supports worldwide calibration activities for ground-/airborne-/space-projects at mid-IR/far-IR/submm/mm wavelengths by providing highly reliable model predictions of selected well-known asteroids. These activities are documented in a series of deliverables which are produced as part of WP4 of the SBNAF project.
- D4.1 Observation summary table (pdf; 30 Apr 2016)
- D4.2 Submm/mm model predictions & gzipped tar file with model v0 predictions for 20 asteroids for period 2016-2020 (pdf & gzipped-tar file; 30 Jun 2016)
- D4.3 Calibration asteroid model predictions (pdf; 30 Sep 2016)
- High-quality & high time resolution TPM predictions at 10 reference frequencies (model v2) for Ceres, Pallas, Vesta, Lutetia for 2014-2020 (gzipped tar file with 28 txt-files: one per object per year)
- Model predictions (model v1 & v2) for all 28 Herschel-PACS/SPIRE/HIFI calibration asteroids at observation mid-time for HSA upload (gzipped tar file with 1433 FITS files, corresponding to 1433 OBSIDs or 359.13 h total Herschel observing time)
- Release note for HSA upload of calculated asteroid model predictions (pdf)
- D4.6 Selection of secondary asteroid calibrators (pdf; 31 Mar 2017)
- D4.4 Secondary asteroid models (pdf; 31 Mar 2018)
- D4.5 Final asteroid models (pdf; 03 May 2019)
- TPM predictions (15-min time resolution) for 2 Pallas, 3 Juno, 4 Vesta, 6 Hebe, 7 Iris, 8 Flora, 9 Metis, 12 Victoria, 18 Melpomene, 19 Fortuna, 20 Massalia, 21 Lutetia 23 Thalia, 24 Themis, 29 Amphitrite, 37 Fides, 40 Harmonia, 52 Europa, 54 Alexandra, 65 Cybele, 88 Thisbe, 93 Minerva, 360 Carlova, 372 Palma, 423 Diotima, 471 Papagena, 511 Davida, 532 Herculina, 704 Interamnia, and 1 Ceres (1-h time resolution): for 2018, for 2019, for 2020 (gzipped tar files, each 25 MB)
- TPM predictions for 1 Ceres (1-hour time resolution), 2 Pallas, 4 Vesta, and 21 Lutetia (15-min time resolution) for the years 2021-2025 (gzipped tar files, 17.4 MB)