Raw Data and PCA Filtering of Apache Point Observatory NMSU 1m StellaCam Observations of LCROSS

<p>This archive contains the raw data and data products from observations of the 2009-10-09 impact of the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) spacecraft on the Moon by the StellaCam instrument on the Apache Point Observatory NMSU 1m telescope.</p> <p>Full details about the raw data are available in Chanover, N. J. et al. Results from the NMSU-NASA Marshall Space Flight Center LCROSS observational campaign. <em>J. Geophys. Res. (Planets)</em> <strong>116</strong>, E08003 (2011). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1029/2010JE003761">https://doi.org/10.1029/2010JE003761</a></p> <p>We use principal component analysis (PCA) filtering both to coregister the raw time series and to effectively remove a static background signal that is spatially and temporally modified by atmospheric and instrumental effects. We iteratively remove principal components from the data through cumulative sequential elimination (CSE) resulting in a non-detection of the LCROSS ejecta plume signal.</p> <p>Full details are available in the published journal article:</p> <p>Strycker, Paul D., Nancy J. Chanover, Ruth L. Temme, Jonathan M. Schotte, Payton L. Mueller, and Emily L. Karls. 2023. &quot;Time Series Analysis Methods and Detectability Factors for Ground-Based Imaging of the LCROSS Impact Plume&quot;&nbsp;<em>Remote Sensing</em>&nbsp;<strong>15</strong>, no. 1: 37. <a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15010037">https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15010037</a></p> <p>This work was supported by NASA&rsquo;s Lunar Data Analysis Program through grant number NNX15AP92G.</p>