Asteroid models from the Lowell photometric database

@article{urech2016AsteroidMF,  title={Asteroid models from the Lowell photometric database},  author={Josef Ďurech and Josef Hanus̆ and Josef Hanus̆ and Dagmara Oszkiewicz and Radim Van{\vc}o},  journal={Astronomy and Astrophysics},  year={2016},  volume={587},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:118427201}}
We use the lightcurve inversion method to derive new shape models and spin states of asteroids from the sparse-in-time photometry compiled in the Lowell Photometric Database. To speed up the time-consuming process of scanning the period parameter space through the use of convex shape models, we use the distributed computing project Asteroids@home, running on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform. This way, the period-search interval is divided into hundreds of… 

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