Tails and Trails: Comets and NEOs Survive Co-addition in Rubin Early Data Preview 2

arXiv:2609.30361 · astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM · Submitted 2026-09-24 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM

Submitted: 2026-09-24

Updated: 2026-09-24

Code: https://github.com/lincc-frameworks/ponder

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Provenance — 13× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Rubin Science Platform — 5× in this paper
Astrophysical Research Consortium — 4× in this paper
Minor Planet Center — 4× in this paper
Apache Point Observatory — 2× in this paper
Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System — 2× in this paper
Central Bureau for Electronic Telegrams — 2× in this paper
Flexible Image Transport System — 2× in this paper
Header Data Unit — 2× in this paper
International Celestial Reference System — 2× in this paper
Legacy Survey of Space and Time — 2× in this paper
Minor Planet Electronic Circular — 2× in this paper
Portable Document Format — 2× in this paper
Portable Network Graphics — 2× in this paper
Server-side Operations for Data Access — 2× in this paper
Simple Image Access — 2× in this paper
Temps Atomique International — 2× in this paper
World Coordinate System — 2× in this paper
Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Generative AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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