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Instrumental methods for professional and amateur collaborations in planetary astronomy

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posted on 2017-01-18, 16:57 authored by O Mousis, R Hueso, J-P Beaulieu, S Bouley, B Carry, F Colas, A Klotz, C Pellier, J-M Petit, P Rousselot, M Ali-Dib, W Beisker, M Birlan, C Buil, A Delsanti, E Frappa, HB Hammel, AC Levasseur-Regourd, GS Orton, A Sánchez-Lavega, A Santerne, P Tanga, J Vaubaillon, B Zanda, D Baratoux, T Boehm, V Boudon, A Bouquet, L Buzzi, J-L Dauvergne, A Decock, M Delcroix, P Drossart, N Esseiva, G Fischer, LN Fletcher, S Foglia, JM Gómez-Forrellad, J Guarro-Fló, D Herald, E Jehin, F Kugel, J-P Lebreton, J Lecacheux, A Leroy, L Maquet, G Masi, A Maury, F Meyer, S Pérez-Hoyos, AS Rajpurohit, C Rinner, JH Rogers, F Roques, RW Schmude, B Sicardy, B Tregon, M Vanhuysse, A Wesley, T Widemann
Amateur contributions to professional publications have increased exponentially over the last decades in the field of planetary astronomy. Here we review the different domains of the field in which collaborations between professional and amateur astronomers are effective and regularly lead to scientific publications.We discuss the instruments, detectors, software and methodologies typically used by amateur astronomers to collect the scientific data in the different domains of interest. Amateur contributions to the monitoring of planets and interplanetary matter, characterization of asteroids and comets, as well as the determination of the physical properties of Kuiper Belt Objects and exoplanets are discussed.

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O.M. acknowledges support from CNES. RH, ASL and SPH were supported by the Spanish MICIIN project AYA2009-10701 and AYA2012-36666 with FEDER support, Grupos Gobierno Vasco IT-464-07 and UPV/EHU UFI11/55. A.S. acknowledges the support by the European Research Council/European Community under the FP7 through Starting Grant agreement number 239953. D.B. and S.B are supported by the Partenariat Hubert Curien/French–Moroccon volubis program PHC 24675QJ. G.F. was supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, project P24325-N16. G.O. was supported by awards from NASA to JPL/Caltech.

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Experimental Astronomy, 2014, 38 (1-2), pp. 91-191 (101)

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/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING/Department of Physics and Astronomy

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Experimental Astronomy

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Springer Verlag (Germany)

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0922-6435

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1572-9508

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2017-01-18

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http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-014-9379-0

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    Science & TechnologyPhysical SciencesAstronomy & AstrophysicsPlanetary astronomyProfessional-amateur collaborationsImagingPhotometrySpectroscopyNEAR-EARTH ASTEROIDSTRANSIT TIMING VARIATIONSSOUTH EQUATORIAL BELTGROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONSLEONID IMPACT FLASHESSPACE-TELESCOPE FGSGREAT RED SPOTLIGHTCURVE INVERSIONSTELLAR OCCULTATIONSOPTIMIZATION METHODS

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