DebrisWatch II: Digging deeper for geosynchronous debris

arXiv:2605.27516 · astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-05-26 · Read on arXiv

James A. Blake, Benjamin F. Cooke, Cristina Paragini, William Feline, Christopher A. Onken, Don Pollacco, Grant Privett, Toshifumi Yanagisawa, Robert Airey, Ioannis Apergis, Roberto Armellin, Lily Beesley, Paul Chote, Anna-Maria Cutolo, Stuart Eves, Tomoko Fujiwara, Daisuke Kuroda, Isobel S. Lockley, Alexander MacManus, James McCormac, Morgan A Mitchell, Tokuhiro Nimura, Kota Nishiyama, Shin-Ichiro Okumura, Thomas Schildknecht, Billy Shrive, Seitaro Urakawa, Dimitri Veras, Phineas Whitlock, Christian Wolf

astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.EP

Submitted: 2026-05-26

Comments: 49 pages, 23 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, as part of the Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies (AMOS 2025) Conference collection (submitted version, peer-reviewed version will follow)

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Aperture — 24× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 16× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Accuracy — 10× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance — 10× in this paper
• Isaac Newton Telescope — 6× in this paper
• Abundance — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Charge-Coupled Device — 2× in this paper
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Wide Field Camera — 2× in this paper
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• American Association of Variable Star Observers — 1× in this paper
• Aperture Photometry — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor — 1× in this paper
• International Scientific Optical Network — 1× in this paper
• Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Systematic Bias — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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• The Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package

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