A search for main-belt comets with the Palomar Transient Factory

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Oct 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011epsc.conf.1404w&link_type=abstract

EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.1404

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The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) is a synoptic survey designed to explore the transient and variable optical sky. We search PTF imaging data for observations of known small bodies, catalogue their photometric data and images, and analyze their point spread functions in an attempt to identify cometary activity of the type seen in main-belt comets (MBCs). This project will eventually allow for the study of longterm variability properties using a catalog of a few million asteroid observations.

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