Solar System Notification Alert Processing System

SNAPS

SNAPS is the Solar System Notification Alert Processing System. SNAPS ingests alerts from all-sky surveys such as ZTF and LSST and to produce a database of measured and derived properties for tens of thousands of asteroids. SNAPS is designed to enable a wide range of Solar System science cases, and both individual objects of interest and global properties of asteroids may be extracted from the SNAPS database to inform our understanding of the formation and evolution of the Solar System. SNAPS is supported by the National Science Foundation under grants 1849559 and 2042155, NAU's Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR), and the Arizona Board of Regents' Regents Innovation Fund (the latter two as applications of the Arizona Technology and Research Initiative Fund, TRIF).

Publications

• Cite us:
  The Solar System Notification Alert Processing System (SNAPS): Design, Architecture, and First Data Release (SNAPShot1)
  Trilling, D., Gowanlock, M., Kramer, D., McNeill, A., Donnelly, B., Butler, N. R., & Kececioglu, J.
  Astronomical Journal https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acac7f


• Discovery of superslow rotating asteroids with ATLAS and ZTF photometry
  N Erasmus, D Kramer, A McNeill, D E Trilling, P Janse van Rensburg, G T van Belle, J L Tonry, L Denneau, A Heinze, H J Weiland
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 506, Issue 3, September 2021, Pages 3872–3881, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab1888


• Fast Period Searches Using the Lomb-Scargle Algorithm on Graphics Processing Units for Large Datasets and Real-Time Applications [Preprint]
  Gowanlock, M., Kramer, D., Trilling, D. E., Butler, N. R., & Donnelly, B.
  Astronomy & Computing, 36, 100472, Elsevier. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ascom.2021.100472


• GPU-Enabled Searches for Periodic Signals of Unknown Shape [Preprint]
  Gowanlock, M., Butler, N. R., Trilling, D. E., & McNeill, A.
  Astronomy & Computing, 38, 100511, Elsevier. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ascom.2021.100511


• Removing Aliases in Time-Series Photometry
  Kramer, D., Gowanlock, M., D., Trilling, McNeill, A., & Erasmus, N.
  Astronomy and Computing https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ascom.2023.100711