The research of the accuracy of asteroid orbit fitting using both radar and astrometric observations
The least-square orbit fitting problem for asteroids using their radar and astrometric observations has been considered. The both types of radar observations have been taken into account: the time delay observations and the Doppler observations. The research of accuracy increase due to the using of radar observations in addition to astrometric ones has been carried out. This research has been done by means of several orbit fittings using different samples of observations of some asteroids. The samples contain all radar observations and different numbers of astrometric ones. The orbit arc of radar observations of chosen asteroids is very short (several days) while the arcs of astrometric observations for all used samples are much longer. It has been demonstrated that the using of radar observations in the orbit fitting may increase the accuracy of obtained solution by 1-3 orders even in the cases of very long astromeric arcs (several years). During the research the convenient windows-interface for the calculating program has been developed. The functions of the program also have been expanded. Particularly, the ability of perturbations calculation from different planet ephemerides and of calculations with different machine precision have been added to the program.