Supplementary Dataset for “Centaurs and Beyond: Analysing Serendipitous Observations from Wide-Field Surveys"

This is a supplementary dataset for the PhD thesis entitled "Centaurs and Beyond: Analysing Serendipitous Observations from Wide-Field Surveys" (2024). The data was collected between 2020,10,01 and 2024,04,01 & from Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland. The dataset is measurements of the brightness of small Solar System objects across time. It would be of interest to astronomers and astrophysicists, especially those on the field of researching small Solar System objects. The dataset contains a zip folder with tabular data, image data (in PNG format) and a readme file. The tabular data contain brightness measurements of small Solar System objects across time; one of these data files contains brightness data for a sample of small Solar System objects observed by the ATLAS wide-field sky survey and the remainder of these tabular data files are for one object - Chiron - with each of these files representing data obtained from a different telescope or sky survey. The image data show the phase curves (brightness plotted as a function of viewing angle) of the small Solar System object sample observed by ATLAS in one or both of the two photometric filters in which ATLAS observes.

This dataset supports the publications:
AUTHORS: Matthew M. Dobson, Megan E. Schwamb, Susan D. Benecchi, Anne J. Verbiscer, Alan Fitzsimmons, Luke J. Shingles, Larry Denneau, A. N. Heinze, Ken W. Smith, John L. Tonry, Henry Weiland, and David. R. Young
TITLE: Phase Curves of Kuiper Belt Objects, Centaurs, and Jupiter-family Comets from the ATLAS Survey
JOURNAL: The Planetary Science Journal
PAPER DOI: 10.3847/PSJ/acc463

AUTHORS: Matthew M. Dobson, Megan E. Schwamb, Alan Fitzsimmons, Charles Schambeau, Aren Beck, Larry Denneau, Nicolas Erasmus, A. N. Heinze, Luke J. Shingles, Robert J. Siverd, Ken W. Smith, John L. Tonry, Henry Weiland, David. R. Young, Michael S. P. Kelley, Tim Lister, Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Marin Ferrais, Emmanuel Jehin, Grigori Fedorets, Susan D. Benecchi, Anne J. Verbiscer, Joseph Murtagh, René Duffard, Edward Gomez, Joey Chatelain, and Sarah Greenstreet
TITLE: The Discovery and Evolution of a Possible New Epoch of Cometary Activity by the Centaur (2060) Chiron
JOURNAL: The Planetary Science Journal
PAPER DOI: 10.3847/PSJ/ad543c

Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: These data are available in the online manuscripts of the two papers mentioned above as supplementary data.