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Asteroids@home is a volunteer distributed computing project developed at the Astronomical Institute , Charles University in Prague , in cooperation with Radim Vančo from CzechNationalTeam . The project is directed by Josef Durech . It runs on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing ( BOINC ) software platform and uses power of volunteers' computers to solve the lightcurve inversion problem for many asteroids.
With huge amount of photometric data coming from big all-sky surveys as well as from backyard astronomers, the lightcurve inversion becomes a computationaly demanding process. In the future, we can expect even more data from surveys that are either already operating ( PanSTARRS ) or under construction ( Gaia , LSST ). Moreover, data from surveys are often sparse in time , which means that the rotation period - the basic physical parameter - cannot be estimated from the data easily. Contrary to classical lig
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