International collaboration as a primary way for the ISON network

development

Igor Molotov, Vladimir Agapov

Russian Academy of SciencesRussian Academy of Sciences Keldysh Institute of Applied MathematicsKeldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics

63rd International Astronautical Congress, 63rd International Astronautical Congress, Naples, ItalyNaples, Italy, October 1-5, 2012, October 1-5, 2012

International Scientific Optical Network (ISON)• Open non-government scientific project having goals

– to provide reliable scientific output on space debris, asteroids and GRB afterglows – to support the astronomical observatories of Former Soviet Union (FSU) countries and to involve amateur astronomers in scientific activities – to improve the international collaboration between FSU observatories and scientific organization in other countries

• Cooperation already joins 51 telescopes in 33 observation facilities of various affiliation (Academy of Sciences, Universities, Scientific Institutions, Commercial Companies, Privates) coordinated by the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (KIAM)

ISON International Cooperation

• ISON collaborates now with institutions of 14 countries - Armenia, Bolivia, Georgia, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Italy, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Ukraine, USA, Uzbekistan

• Negotiations are carried out with organizations of 10 countries - Argentina, China, Japan, Ireland, Kazakhstan, Korea, South Africa, Turkmenistan, Venezuela, Vietnam

UN-ISON program• ISON joins to UN Basic Space Science Initiative• Outreach seminar in Vienne in June 11, 2012

during 55th session of COPUOS

International scientific optical network

Forms of collaboration with ISON• Joint observation campaigns to exchange the

obtained results• Providing of software, elaborated under ISON

project for further coordinated activities• Installation of ISON telescopes to share the data• Modernization of non-operational obsolete

telescopes• Production of telescope under grant for future joint

observations • Access to ISON orbital data base• Service on conjunction analysis• Participation in UN supported ISON conferences

Joint observation campaigns to exchange the obtained results

Joint observation campaigns with 1 m telescope of Zimmerwald observatory of AIUB are carried out since 2004

Providing of software, elaborated under ISON project for further coordinated activities

ISON provided the APEX software for CCD frame processing and prepares survey schedules for the team of 50 cm telescope Fabra ROA Montsec project with FOV of 4.4 deg near Barselona in 2011.

Standard ISON telescopes that may be installed to share the data:

19.2-cm (7 deg), 25-cm (3.5 deg), 40-cm (1 deg.)

Installation of ISON telescopes to share the data and analysis

• Russian-Italian (Rome University) project FIRST is realized in 2009

• Russian-Mexican (University of Sinaloa) project is realized in 2012

Production of telescope under grant for future joint observations

40-cm (2.3 deg), 50-cm (1.8-2.5 deg), 65-cm (1.8 -2.6), 80-cm is in elaboration

Production of telescope under grant for future joint observations

• 50-cm telescope is produced under grant of Moscow Physical-Technical Institute in 2008

• 40-cm telescope is produced under grant of Mongolian Academy of Sciences in 2012

Production of telescope under grant for future joint observations

• 6 mini-observatories (4 EOP-1 and 2 EOP-2) and 3 separate telescopes are produced under grant of Roscosmos

• First EOP-1 in Kislovodsk started regular observations in July 2012 and already discovered comet C/2012 S1 (ISON)

Planned positions of mini-observatories and separate telescopes under

Roscosmos grant

Modernization of non-operational obsolete telescopes•Modernization of 60-cm Zeiss-600 in Tarija (Bolivia) and Sanglok (Tajikistan), 80-cm telescopes in Terskol and MayakiStart of modernization of 2.6-m ZTA and 1-m AZT-10 in Byurakan (Armenia)

Access to ISON orbital data baseService on conjunction analysis

• ISON/KIAM is already involved in Roscosmos’s ASPOS OKP project (Automated System for Prediction and Warning on the dangerous situations in the near-Earth space) and provides conjunction analysis for Electra-L and Luch-5A GEO satellites

• It is planned that open partial database on space debris objects will be elaborated under UN-ISON collaboration

Access to ISON orbital data baseService on conjunction analysis

• Negotiations are started with National Space Centre in Ireland about arranging joint database for conjunction analysis

Participation in UN supported ISON conferences

• ISON arranges the conferences and workshops on regular basis (6 meetings were to the date)

• It is planned that next ISON meetings will be supported by UN

Latest ISON update

• Adjustment of faint fragment surveys• Start of surveys of high-elliptical objects• New subsystem for tracking bright GEO and

HEO objects and the software for automatic ephemerid observations (similar to survey schedules) is elaborated and tested

• Starting the creation of new subsystem for LEO objects observations from telescopes with FOV of 12x10 degree

Adjustment of faint fragment survey• Installation of CCD camera with 50-mm chip at 50-cm

ORI-50 telescope resulted in 2.5x2.5 deg FOV and provided ability to cover fields with the highest density of known fragment trajectories

• Ussuriysk ORI-50 participated in discovering of about 100 non-catalogued objects during 2011

Start of surveys of high-elliptical objects• 19.2 cm VT-78e and 18 cm VT-52c telescopes with 7x7 degree

FOV are installed in Sanglok and Nauchny-1• Sanglok carries out extended GEO survey (14000

measurements in 2000 tracks for 700 objects per a survey, including up to 150 HEO objects)

• Nauchniy-1 – both extended GEO survey and targeted survey of HEO objects

New subsystems for LEO and HEO objects observations