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By Oct 2025, the following 34 publications and 25 communications resulted from the EURONEAR project:

Papers:

• Data-parallel methods for fast and deep detection of asteroids on the Umbrella platform: Near-real-time synthetic tracking algorithm for near-Earth objects, A&A Accepted: 9 Oct 2025
• Shepherding Miorita and its flock: A group of near-Earth asteroids driven by apsidal and von Zeipel-Lidov-Kozai secular resonances. A source of low-perihelion asteroids, A&A 700, L21, 2025
• Few EURONEAR NEA mini-surveys observed with the INT, KASI and T80S telescopes during the ParaSOL synthetic tracking project, New Astronomy, Vol 119, 102410, 2025
• The physical properties of two potential targets for space missions: (155140) 2005 UD and (612267) 2001 SG286, MNRAS 535, 3077, 2024
• Ensemble Machine Learning Model for the Automated Asteroid Detection, RoAJ 33, 111 2023
• Discovery and physical characterization as the first response to a potential asteroid collision: The case of 2023 DZ2, A&A 676, A124, 2023
• Assessment of Asteroid Classification Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks, Aerospace, 10, 752, 2023
• The EURONEAR Lightcurve Survey of Near Earth Asteroids 2017-2020, EM&P, Vol 126:6, 2022
• Ready for EURONEAR NEA surveys using the NEARBY moving source detection platform, New Astronomy, Vol 88, 101600, 2021
• The EURONEAR Lightcurve Survey of Near Earth Asteroids - Teide Observatory, Tenerife 2015, EM&P, Vol 125:3, 2021
• The Umbrella software suite for automated asteroid detection, Astronomy and Computing, Vol 35, 100453, 2021
• Dozens of virtual impactor orbits eliminated by the EURONEAR VIMP DECam data mining project, A&A, Vol 642, A35, 2020
• Physical characterization of 2020 AV2, the first known asteroid orbiting inside Venus orbit project, MNRAS 496, 3572, 2020
• Mega-Archive and the EURONEAR Tools for Datamining World Astronomical Images, Astronomy and Computing, Vol 30, 100356, 2020
• NEARBY plaform for automatic asteroids detection and EURONEAR surveys, Proc. 1st ESA NEO and Debris Detection Conference, Darmstadt, 22-24 Jan 2019
• Near-Earth asteroids spectroscopic survey at Isaac Newton Telescope, A&A 627, 124, 2019
• Physical properties of PHA 2014 JO25 from a worldwide observational campaign, MNRAS 483, 4, 4820, 2019
• 280 one-opposition near Earth asteroids recovered by the EURONEAR with the Isaac Newton Telescope, A&A 609, 105, 2018
• Teaching students about informatics and astronomy using real data for detection of asteroids, Eur. J. Phys. 38, 055706, 2017
• The EURONEAR Lightcurve Survey of Near Earth Asteroids, EM&P 120, 41, 2017
• EURONEAR - First Light Curves and Physical Properties of Near Earth Asteroids, RoJPhys 62, 904, 2017
• Data mining of near-Earth asteroids in the Subaru Suprime-Cam archive, AN 338, 527, 2017
• Characterization of (357439) 2004 BL86 on its close approach to Earth in 2015, A&A 581, 3, 2015
• First EURONEAR NEA discoveries from La Palma using the INT, MNRAS 449, 2, 1614, 2015
• 739 observed NEAs and new 2-4 m survey statistics within the EURONEAR network and Appendix, P&SS 85, 299, 2013
• Mining the ESO WFI and INT WFC archives for known Near Earth Asteroids. Mega-Precovery software, AN 334, 7, 718, 2013
• EURONEAR - Recovery, follow-up and discovery of NEAs and MBAs using large field 1-2m telescopes and Appendix, P&SS 59, 13, 1632, 2011
• Mining the CFHT Legacy Survey for known Near Earth Asteroids, AN 332, 6, 580, 2011
• More than 160 near Earth asteroids observed in the EURONEAR network, A&A 511, 40, 2010
• High-Precision Astrometry of NEAs via EURONEAR Observations, RoAJ 20S, 119, 2010
• EURONEAR: Data mining of asteroids and Near Earth Asteroids, AN 330, 698, 2009
• EURONEAR: First results, P&SS 56, 14, 1913, 2008
• Planning Near-Earth Asteroid Observations on a 1-Meter Class Telescope, RoAJ 16, 201, 2006
• Observing Near Earth Asteroids with a Small Telescope, RoAJ 14, 199, 2004 and 15, 171, 2005

Other selected contributions:

• Detecting near-Earth objects using real-time synthetic tracking surveys, Europlanet Science Congress EPSC-DPS, Helsinki, 7-12 Sep 2025
• Asteroid Day Festival, Asteroid Foundation, presentation of Daria Ciobanu, Luxemburg, 30 Jun 2024
• Blink and you miss it: Real-time synthetic tracking for near-Earth object surveys, Asteroids, Meteors, Comets Conference, Flagstaff, 18-23 Jun 2023
• Real-time synthetic tracking for NEA discovery, IAA Planetary Defense Conference, Vienna, 3-7 Apr 2023
• Asteroid Day Space Lecture, Asteroid Foundation, presentation of Daria Ciobanu (starting 1h:53m), Luxemburg, 30 Jun 2023 (YouTube)
• The detection and research of dangerous asteroids in the scientific EURONEAR project, E-ROAD ONU "UN75 2020 and beyound" event (movie, in Romanian)
• First asteroid found within Venus's orbit could be a clue to missing 'mantle' asteroids, Science press release, 1 July 2020
• Digital Tracking Cloud Distributed Architecture for Detection of Faint NEAs, SYNASC 21st Ed. Conf, Timisoara, 4-7 Sep 2019
• Eliminating Virtual Impactors with Mega-Precovery (VIMP), EPSC-DPS 2019, Geneva, Switzerland, EPSC Abstracts Vol. 13, EPSC-DPS2019-867-1, 2019
• Asteroides cercanos a la Tierra y el proyecto EURONEAR, Asteroid Day, Planetario de Castellon, Spain, 22 June 2019
• NEARBY Platform for Automatic Asteroids Detection and EURONEAR Surveys, ESA NEO and Space Debris Conference - Exploiting Synergies, ESA/ESOC Darmstadt, 22-24 Jan 2019
• NEARBY Platform for Detecting Asteroids in Astronomical Images Using Cloud-based Containerized Applications, IEEE 14th Ed. ICCP Conf, Cluj-Napoca, 6-8 Sep 2018
• Asteroids Detection Technique: Classic "Blink" An Automated Approch, IEEE AQTR Conf, Cluj-Napoca, 24-26 May 2018
• NEARBY Platform: Algorithm for Automated Asteroids Detection in Astronomical Images, IEEE 14th Ed. ICCP Conf, Cluj-Napoca, 6-8 Sep 2018
• The EURONEAR contribution to the European NEA Research, Jornadas Astronomicas de Castellon, Spain, 2018
• Automated Prototype for Asteroids Detection, IEEE 13th Ed. ICCP Conf, Cluj-Napoca, 7-9 Sep 2017
• The EURONEAR and its Romanian contribution to the European NEO Research, Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca and Targoviste, Romania, 2016
• The EURONEAR contribution to the European NEO Research, ESA/ESRIN meeting, Frascati, 1 Feb 2016
• Around 1500 Near Earth Asteroid Orbits Improved via EURONEAR, ACM 2014, Helsinki, 30 Jun - 4 Jul 2014
• Physical Properties of NEAs are Scrutinized via EURONEAR, ACM 2014, Helsinki, 30 Jun - 4 Jul 2014
• Mega-Precovery and data mining of NEAs and other solar system objects, ACM 2014, Helsinki, 30 Jun - 4 Jul 2014
• The EURONEAR Project, IPEWG 2013 Meeting, Nice, 29-31 May 2013
• Exploring the solar system with Mega-Precovery data mining server: strengthening our database and functionalities, Boletín de la Asociacion Argentina de Astronomia, vol.56, p. 411, 2013
• The EURONEAR project and its successful collaboration with students and amateurs, ING-Mercator-NOT Seminar, La Palma, 11 Dec 2012
• Mega-Precovery, a dedicated project for data mining worldwide image archives for poorly known asteroids, IMCCE Journees Scientifiques, Observatoire de Paris, pag.71, 2010