1,2,2,- 1Northern Arizona University, Astronomy and Planetary Science, Flagstaff, United States of America (david.trilling@nau.edu)
- 2Northern Arizona University, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Flagstaff, United States of America
We are operating the Solar System Notification Alert Processing System (SNAPS), a downstream broker that presently ingests alerts from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), and will soon from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). SNAPS serves several purposes that together enable a wide range of science cases.
(1) SNAPS is a clearinghouse for data from these surveys. We also presently serve some TESS data, and other large-scale databases will soon be ingested. A community user can query object(s) of interest and receive data records, derived properties (such as color and rotational period), and ancillary data (for example, orbital elements).
(2) We have several tools that detect unusual asteroids in the SNAPS database. These can be population outliers (objects whose intrinsic properties are unusual compared to other small bodies) or individual outliers (objects whose properties change with time). An example of the former case is an object with a very large lightcurve amplitude, and an example of the latter case is an active asteroid.
To date we have published papers the SNAPS architecture, first data release, and first science results (Trilling et al. 2023); on computational approaches (Gowanlock et al. 2021, 2022); on signal processing (Kramer et al. 2023, Gowanlock et al. 2024b); and on outlier detection (Gowanlock et al. 2024a). A number of additional papers are in progress..
In this presentation we will briefly summarize our infrastructure capabilities, including recent updates since the last DPS. We will highlight some of our most recent science highlights. Finally, we will present an assessment of our LSST readiness, including demonstrating tools that the community can use to interact with SNAPS.
This work is funded in part by the Arizona Board of Regents Technology and Research Initiative Fund, and by NASA and NSF grants to DET and MG.
Gowanlock et al. 2021, Astronomy and Computing, 3600472
Gowanlock et al. 2022, Astronomy and Computing, 3800511
Gowanlock et al. 2024a, AJ, 168, 56
Gowanlock et al. 2024b, AJ, 168, 181
Kramer et al. 2023, Astronomy and Computing, 440071
Trilling et al. 2023, AJ, 165, 111
How to cite: Trilling, D., Gowanlock, M., Reddy Munugala, R., Kramer, D., Chernyavskaya, M., Clark, E., Chappus, S., Franklin, S., Johnson, G., Metcalf, C., and Mule, G.: The Solar System Notification Alert Processing System (SNAPS): Infrastructure updates, ZTF science, and LSST readiness, EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2025, Helsinki, Finland, 7–12 Sep 2025, EPSC-DPS2025-736, https://doi.org/10.5194/epsc-dps2025-736, 2025.
