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This project is a collection of algorithms and utilities useful for asteroid shape modeling. The aim is to collect ideas developed throughout the years of working on asteroid shape models and to deliver a coherent software package using modern C++.

Additional aim is to unify and rewrite the code for the SAGE method. SAGE stands for Shaping Asteroids with Genetic Evolution, and is an inversion technique for asteroid shape modeling. Taking lightcurves, adaptive optics images (TODO: stellar occultation cords and radar delay-Doppler images) the method creates 3D shape models and spin state (spin axis orientation and period) of an asteroid best explaining the data. Original paper describing the method can be found here.

Features

  • Synthetic observation generation:
    • lightcurves,
    • adaptive optics,
    • radar delay-Doppler,
  • SAGE method (TODO)