1. Asteroids@home - using distributed computing for asteroid lightcurve inversion
- Author
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Vávra, Michael, Ďurech, Josef, and Scheirich, Petr
- Subjects
planetky|distribuované výpočty|inverze světelných křivek|periody|bootstrap ,asteroids|distributed computing|light curve inversion|periods|bootstrap - Abstract
Distributed computing is a great helper in many fields of human activity. Distributed computing is not only helper, but also a tool, which can finish many computations in less time. Modelling of the asteroids, findings coordinates of their poles or derivations of their rotational periods are all very time consuming processes, which can all be done faster with the usage of the distributed computing. In order to execute these processes, we have to parallelize these processes, which means we have to split computations of these processes into many computers. Here comes a project Asteroids@home, which can on the one hand execute these processes and on the other hand the project can parallelize these processes. Due to this we know shapes, coordinates of poles and periods of many asteroids these days. However, periods of the asteroids are not always correct and therefore it is necessary to study them more further and decide if they are correct or not. 1
- Published
- 2021