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<html> <head> <title>ALCDEF Database</title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8"> <meta name="keywords" content="asteroid, photometry, observing, asteroids, lightcurve database, asteroid lightcurve database, LCDB, ALCDEF, rotation, period, amplitude, minor planet, minor planets"> <meta name="description" content="A database with millions of asteroid time-series photometry observations"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./css/mpc.css"><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./css/table-sorter.css"><link media="all" rel="stylesheet" href="./css/all.css"><script type="text/javascript" src="./js/jquery-latest.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="./js/jquery.main.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="./js/jquery.tablesorter.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="./js/jquery.metadata.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="./js/webtrends.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="../php/alcdef.js"></script><script type="text/javascript">function UpdateSlider(val) { document.getElementById('currentPeriod').innerHTML = val; }</script><script type="text/javascript" src="./php/alcdef.js"></script><script type="text/javascript">function UpdateSlider(val) { document.getElementById('currentPeriod').innerHTML = val; }</script> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./css/mpc.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./css/table-sorter.css"> <link media="all" rel="stylesheet" href="./css/all.css"> <link href="https://plus.google.com/103523519128767953332" rel="publisher"> <script type="text/javascript" src="./js/jquery-latest.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="./js/jquery.main.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="./js/jquery.tablesorter.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="./js/jquery.metadata.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="./js/webtrends.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript">var hiddenPeriod = '0.000';</script> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() {var po = document.createElement("script"); po.type = "text/javascript"; po.async = true; po.src = "https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })(); </script> <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Arvo:400,700,400italic,700italic| PT+Sans:400,700,400italic,700italic|PT+Sans+Narrow:400,700' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'> <style> .slidecontainer { width: 100%; } .slider { -webkit-appearance: none; width: 100%; height: 3px; background: #0101c2; outline: none; opacity: 0.7; -webkit-transition: .2s; transition: opacity .2s; } .slider:hover { opacity: 1; } .slider::-webkit-slider-thumb { -webkit-appearance: none; appearance: none; width: 15px; height: 15px; border-radius: 50%; background: #a80000; cursor: pointer; } .slider::-moz-range-thumb { width: 15px; height: 15px; border-radius: 50%; background: #a80000; cursor: pointer; } </style> </head><body><table width="900" height="140" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#000000"><tr valign="middle"><td bgcolor="#000000" align="center" width="900" height="140" colspan="5"><img src="./images/Banner_2.png" width="900" height="140" alt="ALCDEF Home" usemap="#headermap"/> <map name="headermap"><area shape="rect" coords="1,1,896,138" href="./index.php" alt="ALCDEF Home"></area></map></td></tr><tr ><th align="center"><font face="Segoe UI" size="3"><a href="./php/alcdef_briefHistory-1.html" target="_blank">What is ALCDEF?</a></font></th><th align="center"><font face="Segoe UI" size="3"><a href="./php/alcdef_aboutLightcurves.html" target="_blank"> About Asteroid Lightcurves</a></font></th><th align="center"><font face="Segoe UI" size="3"><a href="./php/alcdef_acknowledgements.html" target="_blank"> Acknowledgements</a></font></th><th align="center"><font face="Segoe UI" size="3"><a href="./php/alcdef_credits.html" target="_blank">Credits</a></font></th><th align="center"><font face="Segoe UI" size="3"><a href="./php/alcdef_dataPolicy.html" target="_blank"> Data and Privacy Policy</a></font></th></tr><tr ><td colspan="5"><font face="Segoe UI" size="3" color="#bd0000"><h3>Special Annoucements</h3></font><font face="Segoe UI" size="3" color="#000000"><b>Download and review the latest <a href="./docs/ALCDEF_Standard.pdf" target="_blank">ALCDEF standards PDF.</a><p>2024 March 4<br />The site and standard have been updated to distinguish between Pan-STARRS and Sloan <i>ugriz</i> filters and magbands. "Px" stands for Pan-STARRS wile "Sx" stands for Sloan. Magnitudes based on the ATLAS star catalog (Tonry et al., 2008) are Px</p><p>The EPOCH keyword has been deprecated and replaced by EQUINOX. Existing programs that generate EPOCH will still work as will upload files using EPOCH. If using a custom program to read/write ALCDEF files, it should be updated to use EQUINOX.</p></font></td></tr></table>  <table width="900" align="center" border="1" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="10">  <tr valign="top">  <td width="450" align="center" valign="top">  <table width="450" align="center"> <tr> <td width="450" align="center">  <table width="450" align="center"> <tr> <th align="center" color="#f0f0f0"> <h3>Statistics and Search</h3> </th> </tr> <tr> <td width="450" align="center"> <br /> <table border='1' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='4'><tr bgcolor='#ececec'><th><b> Objects </b></th><th><b> LC Blocks </b></th><th><b> Observations </b></th></tr><tr><td align='center'>24538</td><td align='center'>383200</td><td align='center'>10799835</td></tr><tr><td nowrap colspan='3' align='center'>Last update: 2024-11-24 15:03:59</td></tr></table> <br /> <table width="250" border="0" cellpadding="7" align="center"> <tr bgcolor="#f5f5f5"> <th>Object Search</th> </tr> <tr> <td align="center">  <form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="./php/alcdef_GenerateALCDEFPage.php" method="post"> <input type=hidden name='findValue' value=''> <input name="findObjects" type="submit" value="Search Database" align="center"> </form>   </td> </tr> </table> <br /> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr>  <tr> <td width="450" align="center">  <table width="450" align="center"> <tr> <th align="center"> <h3>Required "Opt-in" and File Upload</h3> </th> </tr> <tr>  <td width="100%"> <form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/Index.php" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" onsubmit="return clearUpload()"> <small> <p align="justify"> You must give express permission before your data can be stored <i>and</i> distributed. Without this permission, your data will not be accepted by the ALCDEF site. You must also choose whether or not your data will be automatically made part of a periodic release from the NASA Planetary Data System. </p> <p align="left"> For more information, see the <a href="../php/alcdef_dataPolicy.html" target="_blank"> Data and Privacy Policy</a> statement and the <a href="../docs/ALCDEF_Standard.pdf" target="_blank">ALCDEF documentation.</a> </p> </small>  <font size="3">Allow sharing  <select name="allowSharing" size="1"><option selected value="NONE">Choose</option><option value="FALSE">No</option><option value="TRUE">Yes</option></select> </font>       <font size="3">Submit to PDS <select name="submitPDS" size="1"><option selected value="NONE">Choose</option><option value="FALSE">No</option><option value="TRUE">Yes</option></select> </font> </p> <hr />  File <input size="35" id="idLCFile" name="LCFile" type="file" />  <br /><br /> <input name="submitFile" type="submit" value="Upload" /> </form> <div id='divUpload'>Waiting</div> </td> </tr>  </table>  </td>   </tr> </table>  </td>    <td width="450" align="center" valign="top">  <table width="450" align="center"> <tr>  <th> <H3>ALCDEFVerify</H3> </th> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="justify"> ALCDEFVerify is a web-based tool that runs the same verification checks used when uploading files to the ALCDEF database. It was developed for those writing third-party programs or scripts to debug and validate their data prior to uploading the files to the ALCDEF database. </p> <p>Up to three files can be processed during each run.<br /> It is <i>strongly</i> recommended that each file be < 1 MB. </p> <form method='post' action="./php/alcdef_verifyFiles.php" enctype='multipart/form-data'> <input type="file" name="verifyList[]" id="verifyList" multiple="true" max="3"> <p align="left"> <input type="submit" name="verify" value="Verify" align="center"> </p> </form> <p> <a href="./php/alcdef_constantkeywords.php" target="_blank"> Defined Constant Keywords</a><br /> (see section 3 of ALCDEF standards documentation) </p> </td> </tr>  <tr> <th> <H3>Simple ALCDEF (S-ALCDEF)</H3> </th> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="justify"> S-ALCDEF is for those who have basic text data files, e.g., JD, magnitude[, magerror]. Usually with a minimal amount of editing, these files can be uploaded to the ALCDEF database without creating the more detailed and rigorous standard ALCDEF files. </p> <p align="left"> See the <a href="./docs/ALCDEF_Standard.pdf" target="_blank">ALCDEF documentation for details</a><br/> <a href="./php/alcdef_SimpleUpload.php">Click here</a> to go to the S-ALCDEF upload page </p> <p align="justify"> N.B. If using Gaia G magnitudes, you must set MAGBAND=GG (Gaia G). The single-letter 'G' can be confused with the Sloan g magband. There is no 'G' filter, so use FILTER=X, where X is one of the accepted filters. </p> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  <table width="935" border="1" cellpadding="7"> <tr> <th colspan="3" align="left"> <h3>Archive Download</h3> </th> </tr> <tr> <th width="33%" align="center"> <H3>Full Download</H3> </th> <th width="33%" align="center"> <H3>Custom Download</H3> </th> <th width="34%" align="center"> <H3>Download Notes</H3> </th> </tr>  <tr> <td width="20%" align="justify"> <form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/Index.php" method="post" onsubmit="return displayDownload()"> <a href='./docs/ALCDEF_ALL.zip'>Latest ZIP </a>with all ALCDEF data<br /> Created: 2023 September 27 @ 22:02:13 <br />Size: 128,019 KB </form> </td> <td width="20%" align="justify"> <form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/Index.php" method="post" onsubmit="return displayDownload()"> <p align="left"> On/After  <input type="text" size="10" maxlength="10" name=bulkOnAfter value="2024-11-09"><br /> <font size='2'>yyyy-mm-dd or yyyymmdd</font> </p> <font size='3'> <p><label id='lblZip'></label></p> </font> <p> <input type="submit" name="genZIP" value="Submit">  <input type="reset" /> </p> <p align="justify">If successful, a ZIP file is created that contains only those lightcurve blocks that were added or edited on/after the date given above and a download link appears above the Sumbit button. </p> </form> </td> <td width="20%" align="justify"> <p>Due to the heavy load required to generate the ZIP, custom downloads are limited to no more than the last 90 days. </p> <p> Do <b>not </b>press any buttons or leave the page while waiting for the file to be generated. </p> </td> </tr> </table> </td></tr><tr align="left" valign="bottom" width=100%"><td colspan="3" bgcolor="#6e6e6e" align="left"><span class="footer">Copyright (c) 2010- 2024 by <a href="mailto:brian@minplanobs.org"> Brian D. 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