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The impact of satellite trails on Hubble Space Telescope observations
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- Kruk, Sandor (author)
- Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestral Physics (MPE), Garching bei München, Germany
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- García-Martín, Pablo (author)
- Department of Theoretical Physics, Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain
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- Popescu, Marcel (author)
- Astronomical Institute of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
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- Aussel, Ben (author)
- Institut für Planetologie, Westfälische-Wilhelms Universität, Münster, Germany
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- Dillmann, Steven (author)
- Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Perks, Megan E. (author)
- Astronautics Research Group, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Lund, Tamina (author)
- Luleå tekniska universitet
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- Merín, Bruno (author)
- European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), European Space Agency (ESA), Madrid, Spain
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- Thomson, Ross (author)
- Google Cloud, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Karadag, Samet (author)
- Google MD, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- McCaughrean, Mark J. (author)
- European Space Agency, ESTEC AZ, Noordwijk, the Netherlands
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- 2023-03-02
- 2023
- English.
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In: Nature Astronomy. - : Springer Nature. - 2397-3366. ; 7, s. 262-268
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- The recent launch of low Earth orbit satellite constellations is creating a growing threat for astronomical observations with ground-based telescopes1–10 that has alarmed the astronomical community 11–16. Observations affected by artificial satellites can become unusable for scientific research, wasting a growing fraction of the research budget on costly infrastructures and mitigation efforts. Here we report the first measurements, to our knowledge, of artificial satellite contamination on observations from a low Earth orbit made with the Hubble Space Telescope. With the help of volunteers on a citizen science project (www.asteroidhunter.org) and a deep learning algorithm, we scanned the archive of Hubble Space Telescope images taken between 2002 and 2021. We find that a fraction of 2.7% of the individual exposures with a typical exposure time of 11 minutes are crossed by satellites and that the fraction of satellite trails in the images increases with time. This fraction depends on the size of the field of view, exposure time, filter used and pointing. With the growing number of artificial satellites currently planned, the fraction of Hubble Space Telescope images crossed by satellites will increase in the next decade and will need further close study and monitoring.
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- NATURVETENSKAP -- Fysik -- Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Physical Sciences -- Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology (hsv//eng)
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García-Martín, P ...
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Popescu, Marcel
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Aussel, Ben
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Dillmann, Steven
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Perks, Megan E.
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Lund, Tamina
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Merín, Bruno
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Thomson, Ross
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Karadag, Samet
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