SORA: Stellar occultation reduction and analysis
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چکیده
The stellar occultation technique provides competitive accuracy in determining the sizes, shapes, astrometry, etc., of occulting body, comparable to in-situ observations by spacecraft. With increase number known Solar System objects expected from LSST, highly precise astrometric catalogues, such as Gaia, and improvement ephemerides, occultations will become more common with a higher chords each observation. In context Big Data era, we developed SORA, an open-source python library reduce analyse data efficiently. It includes routines predicting events up determination bodies' positions.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['0035-8711', '1365-8711', '1365-2966']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac032