Search and study of the space debris and asteroids within ISON project

Igor E Molotov; Yurij N Krugly; Leonid V Elenin; Thomas Schildknecht; Vasilij V Rumyantsev; Raguli Ya Inasaridze; Vova R Aivazyan; Givi V Kapanadze; Lluis R Canals; Filippo Graziani; Paolo Teofilatto; Shuhrat A Ehgamberdiev; Otabek A Burkhonov; Ekaterina D Chornaya; Anton V Kochergin; Yehia A Abdel-Aziz; Ahmed M Abdelaziz; Vladimir V Kouprianov; Mikhail V Zakhvatkin; Victor A Stepanyants; Inna V Reva; Alexander V Serebryanskiy; Sergei E Schmalz; Igor V Nikolenko

doi:10.1590/0001-3765202120200145

Search and study of the space debris and asteroids within ISON project

An Acad Bras Cienc. 2021 Feb 22;93(suppl 1):e20200145. doi: 10.1590/0001-3765202120200145. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Igor E Molotov¹, Yurij N Krugly², Leonid V Elenin¹, Thomas Schildknecht³, Vasilij V Rumyantsev⁴, Raguli Ya Inasaridze^{5

6}, Vova R Aivazyan^{5

6}, Givi V Kapanadze^{5

6}, Lluis R Canals⁷, Filippo Graziani⁸, Paolo Teofilatto⁹, Shuhrat A Ehgamberdiev¹⁰, Otabek A Burkhonov¹⁰, Ekaterina D Chornaya¹¹, Anton V Kochergin¹¹, Yehia A Abdel-Aziz¹², Ahmed M Abdelaziz¹², Vladimir V Kouprianov¹³, Mikhail V Zakhvatkin¹, Victor A Stepanyants¹, Inna V Reva¹⁴, Alexander V Serebryanskiy¹⁴, Sergei E Schmalz¹, Igor V Nikolenko¹⁵

Affiliations

¹ Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, RAS, Miusskaya sq. 4, 125047, Moscow, Russia.
² Institute of Astronomy, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Sumska Street 35, 61022, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
³ Astronomical Institute, University of Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5, 3012, Bern, Switzerland.
⁴ Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, RAS, Nauchny, 298409, Crimea, Russia.
⁵ Kharadze Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory, Ilya State University, K. Cholokashvili Avenue 3/5, 0162, Tbilisi, Georgia.
⁶ Samtskhe-Javakheti State University, Rustaveli Street 113, 0080, Akhaltsikhe, Georgia.
⁷ Real Instituto y Observatorio de la Armada, Calle Cecilio Pujazуn, s/n, 11100, San Fernando, Cadiz, Spain.
⁸ Group of Astrodynamics for the Use of Space Systems, Via Sambuca Pistoiese 70, 00138, Rome, Italy.
⁹ Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5, 00185, Rome, Italy.
¹⁰ Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute, Astronomicheskaya Street 33, 100052, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
¹¹ Institute of Applied Astronomy, RAS, 10 Kutuzova Embankment, 191187, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
¹² National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, EL Marsad Street 1, Helwan, 11421, Cairo, Egypt.
¹³ University of North Carolina, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 120 E. Cameron Ave., Phillips Hall CB3255, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, U.S.A.
¹⁴ Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute, Observatory 23, 050020, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
¹⁵ Institute of Astronomy, RAS, 48 Pyatnitskaya Street, 119017, Moscow, Russia.

PMID: 33624725
DOI: 10.1590/0001-3765202120200145

Abstract

International Scientific Optical Network (ISON) is an open international voluntary project specializing in observations of the near-Earth space objects. Observatories collaborating with ISON provide the global coverage and successfully combine the observations of the space debris and asteroids. The network includes more than 50 telescopes of 27 observatories in 15 countries and has been working since 2005. ISON monitors the whole GEO region and tracks the objects at GEO, GTO, HEO and LEO. ISON data allowing maintenance of the database of the space objects orbits, validating space debris population model and providing conjunction assessment analysis for satellites at high orbits. ISON develops the technology of asteroid survey with small telescopes and arranges regular photometry observations of near-Earth asteroids (NEA) to investigate the YORP effect, search new binary NEAs, and support radar experiments.