Closely-Spaced Objects and Mathematical Groups Combined With a Robust Observational Method

摘要

Geosynchronous objects appear as unresolved blurs when observed with even the largest ground-based telescopes. Due to the lack of any spatial detail, two or more objects appearing at similar brightness levels within the spectral bandpass they are observed are difficult to distinguish. Observing a pattern of such objects from one time epoch to another leads to deficiencies in associating individual objects before and after the observation. Only by invoking an additional discrimination measure can the individual objects be kept separated between separate observations. A methodology for accomplishing this is described in this paper.