About 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.

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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 photometryN 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.
  WeilandMonthly 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
• Asteroid Period Solutions from Combined Dense and Sparse Photometry
  Michael Gowanlock, David E. Trilling, Andrew McNeill, Daniel Kramer, and Maria Chernyavskaya.
  Astronomical Journal https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad6cdd
• The Solar System Notification Alert Processing System (SNAPS): Asteroid Population Outlier Detection
  Michael Gowanlock, David E. Trilling, Daniel Kramer, Maria Chernyavskaya, and Andrew McNeill.
  Astronomical Journal https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad4da5

Grants

• Arizona Board of Regents (Regent's Innovation Fund)
• DOE, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Grant #B657367
• NASA Grant #80NSSC25K7728
• NSF Grant #2206796
• NSF Grant #2042155