- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASJ/71/1
- Title:
- AKARI Near Infrared Asteroid Spectral Catalog V1
- Short Name:
- J/PASJ/71/1
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Knowledge of water in the solar system is important for the understanding of a wide range of evolutionary processes and the thermal history of the solar system. To explore the existence of water in the solar system, it is indispensable to investigate hydrated minerals and/or water ice on asteroids. These water-related materials show absorption features in the 3um band (wavelengths from 2.7 to 3.1um). We conducted a spectroscopic survey of asteroids in the 3um band using the Infrared Camera (IRC) on board the Japanese infrared satellite AKARI. In the warm mission period of AKARI, 147 pointed observations were performed for 66 asteroids in the grism mode for wavelengths from 2.5 to 5um. According to these observations, most C-complex asteroids have clear absorption features (>10% with respect to the continuum) related to hydrated minerals at a peak wavelength of approximately 2.75um, while S-complex asteroids have no significant features in this wavelength range. The present data are released to the public as the Asteroid Catalog using AKARI Spectroscopic Observations (AcuA-spec).
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/658/A158
- Title:
- A polarimetric study of ACOs
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/658/A158
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022 15:07:47
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Asteroids in comet-like orbits (ACOs) consist of asteroids and dormant comets. Due to their similar appearance, it is challenging to distinguish dormant comets from ACOs via general telescopic observations. Surveys for discriminating dormant comets from the ACO population have been conducted via spectroscopy or optical and mid-infrared photometry. However, they have not been conducted through polarimetry. We conducted the first polarimetric research of ACOs. We conducted a linear polarimetric pilot survey for three ACOs: (944) Hidalgo, (3552) Don Quixote, and (331471) 1984 QY1. These objects are unambiguously classified into ACOs in terms of their orbital elements (i.e., the Tisserand parameters with respect to Jupiter TJ significantly less than 3). Three ACOs were observed by the 1.6-m Pirka Telescope from UT 2016 May 25 to UT 2019 July 22 (13 nights). We found that two ACOs, Don Quixote and Hidalgo, have polarimetric properties similar to comet nuclei and D-type asteroids (optical analogs of comet nuclei. However, 1984 QY1 exhibited a polarimetric property consistent with S-type asteroids. We conducted a backward orbital integration to determine the origin of 1984 QY1 and found that this object was transported from the main belt into the current comet-like orbit via the 3:1 mean motion resonance with Jupiter. We conclude that the origins of ACOs can be more reliably identified by adding polarimetric data to the color and spectral information. This study would be valuable for investigating how the ice-bearing small bodies distribute in the inner solar system.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/423/381
- Title:
- Asteroidal I, J, K in the DENIS Survey
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/423/381
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- I, J, K magnitudes of 767 asteroids (numbered between 1 and 8000) are presented here. These asteroids have been recovered in the DENIS Survey (Deep European Near-Infrared southern sky Survey) on the basis of their predicted ephemerides. The observations were performed with the 1m-telescope at ESO, La Silla (Chile). The limiting magnitudes of the three bands I, J, K centered at 0.8, 1.25 and 2.15 microns are respectively 18.5, 16.5 and 13.5.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/375/275
- Title:
- Asteroidal I, J, K in the DENIS Survey
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/375/275
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- I, J, K magnitudes of 1233 asteroids (numbered between 1 and 8000) are presented here. These asteroids have been recovered in the DENIS Survey (Deep European Near-Infrared southern sky Survey) on the basis of their predicted ephemerides. The observations were performed with the 1m-telescope at ESO, La Silla (Chile). The limiting magnitudes of the three bands I, J, K centered at 0.8, 1.25 and 2.15 microns are respectively 18.5, 16.5 and 13.5.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/641/A80
- Title:
- Asteroid (31) Euphrosyne R-band images
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/641/A80
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Asteroid (31) Euphrosyne is one of the biggest objects in the asteroid main belt and it is also the largest member of its namesake family. The Euphrosyne family occupies a highly inclined region in the outer main belt and contains a remarkably large number of members, which is interpreted as an outcome of a disruptive cratering event.The goals of this adaptive-optics imaging study are threefold: to characterize the shape of Euphrosyne, to constrain its density, and to search for the large craters that may be associated with the family formation event. We obtained disk-resolved images of Euphrosyne using SPHERE/ZIMPOL at the ESO 8.2m VLT as part of our large program (ID: 199.C-0074, PI: Vernazza). We reconstructed its 3D shape via the ADAM shape modeling algorithm based on the SPHERE images and the available light curves of this asteroid. We analyzed the dynamics of the satellite with the \genoid meta-heuristic algorithm. Finally, we studied the shape of Euphrosyne using hydrostatic equilibrium models. Our SPHERE observations show that Euphrosyne has a nearly spherical shape with the sphericity index of 0.9888 and its surface lacks large impact craters. Euphrosyne's diameter is 268+/-6km, making it one of the top ten largest main belt asteroids. We detected a satellite of Euphrosyne - S/2019 (31) 1 - that is about 4 km across, on a circular orbit. The mass determined from the orbit of the satellite together with the volume computed from the shape model imply a density of 1665+/-242kg/m^-3^, suggesting that Euphrosyne probably contains a large fraction of water ice in its interior. We find that the spherical shape of Euphrosyne is a result of the reaccumulation process following the impact, as in the case of (10)Hygiea. However, our shape analysis reveals that, contrary to Hygiea, the axis ratios of Euphrosyne significantly differ from those suggested by fluid hydrostatic equilibrium following reaccumulation.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/624/A121
- Title:
- Asteroid (7) Iris Deconvolved disk-resolved images
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/624/A121
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Asteroid (7) Iris is an ideal target for disk-resolved imaging owing to its brightness (V~7-8) and large angular size of 0.33'' during its apparitions. Iris is believed to belong to the category of large unfragmented asteroids that avoided internal differentiation, implying that its current shape and topography may record the first few 100Myr of the solar system's collisional evolution. We recovered information about the shape and surface topography of Iris from disk-resolved VLT/SPHERE/ZIMPOL images acquired in the frame of our ESO large program. We used the All-Data Asteroid Modeling (ADAM) shape reconstruction algorithm to model the 3D shape of Iris, using optical disk-integrated data and disk-resolved images from SPHERE and earlier AO systems as inputs. We analyzed the SPHERE images and our model to infer the asteroid's global shape and the morphology of its main craters. Results. We present the 3D shape, volume-equivalent diameter D_eq_=214+/-5km, and bulk density {rho}=2.7+/-0.3g/cm^3^ of Iris. Its shape appears to be consistent with that of an oblate spheroid with a large equatorial excavation. We identified eight putative surface features 20-40km in diameter detected at several epochs, which we interpret as impact craters, and several additional crater candidates. Craters on Iris have depth-to-diameter ratios that are similar to those of analogous 10km craters on Vesta. The bulk density of Iris is consistent with that of its meteoritic analog based on spectroscopic observations, namely LL ordinary chondrites. Considering the absence of a collisional family related to Iris and the number of large craters on its surface, we suggest that its equatorial depression may be the remnant of an ancient (at least 3Gyr) impact. Iris's shape further opens the possibility that large planetesimals formed as almost perfect oblate spheroids. Finally, we attribute the difference in crater morphology between Iris and Vesta to their different surface gravities, and the absence of a substantial impact-induced regolith on Iris.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/CoSka/33.159
- Title:
- Asteroid positions in 2002
- Short Name:
- J/other/CoSka/33
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The paper presents the results of position determinations of minor planets carried out at the Skalnate Pleso Observatory in the year 2002. 109 CCD observations of 21 minor planets are given together with the list of reference stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/OAP/31.235
- Title:
- 2728 asteroid positions (Kitab obs.)
- Short Name:
- J/other/OAP/31.2
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Photographic observations of XX century contained numerous and varied information about all objects and events of the Universe fixed on the astronegatives. The original and interesting observations of small bodies of the Solar system in previous years can be selected and used for various scientific tasks. Existing databases and online services can help make such selection easily and quickly. The observations of chronologically earlier oppositions, photometric evaluation of brightness for long periods of time allow refining the orbits of asteroids and identifying various non-stationarities. Photographic observations of the Northern Sky Survey project (FON project) were used for global search for small bodies of Solar system. About 2000 photographic plates of Kitab part of the FON project were made using Double Wide Angle Astrograph at the Kitab observatory (Uzbekistan) during 1981-1989. Early, using that digitized observations the catalogue of equatorial coordinates and stellar magnitudes for more than 13 million stars and galaxies up to B=17.5m was compiled. At present, we analyzed all processing results for the search of asteroids and compiled the catalogue of equatorial coordinates and stellar magnitudes of them. As a result more than 4500 asteroids and comets with visual magnitude from 7.7m to 17.5m were identified now. All positions of asteroids were compared with ephemeris. A preliminary analysis of O-C differences was carried out. New and interesting are that the moments of official discovery of some identified asteroids much later than their moments of Kitab's observation. In addition, some of them are the earliest observations of these asteroids in the world among all known observations. More than 915 observations of such asteroids have been found on the plates of Kitab part of the FON project.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/809/92
- Title:
- Asteroids in GALEX
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/809/92
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present ultraviolet (UV) photometry (near-UV (NUV) band, 180-280nm) of 405 asteroids observed serendipitously by GALEX from 2003 to 2012. All asteroids in this sample were detected by GALEX at least twice. Unambiguous visible-color-based taxonomic labels (C type versus S type) exist for 315 of these asteroids; of these, thermal-infrared-based diameters are available for 245. We derive NUV-V color using two independent models to predict the visual magnitude V at each NUV-detection epoch. Both V models produce NUV-V distributions in which the S types are redder than C types with more than 8{sigma} confidence. This confirms that the S types' redder spectral slopes in the visible remain redder than the C types' into the NUV, this redness being consistent with absorption by silica-containing rocks. The GALEX asteroid data confirm earlier results from the International Ultraviolet Explorer, which two decades ago produced the only other sizeable set of UV asteroid photometry. The GALEX-derived NUV-V data also agree with previously published Hubble Space Telescope (HST) UV observations of asteroids 21 Lutetia and 1 Ceres. Both the HST and GALEX data indicate that NUV band is less useful than u band for distinguishing subgroups within the greater population of visible-color-defined C types (notably, M types and G types).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/158/159
- Title:
- Astrometric positions for (84922) 2003 VS2
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/158/159
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present results from three world-wide campaigns that resulted in the detections of two single-chord and one multi-chord stellar occultations by the plutino object (84922) 2003 VS_2_. From the single-chord occultations in 2013 and 2014 we obtained accurate astrometric positions for the object, while from the multi-chord occultation on 2014 November 7, we obtained the parameters of the best-fitting ellipse to the limb of the body at the time of occultation. We also obtained short-term photometry data for the body in order to derive its rotational phase during the occultation. The rotational light curve present a peak-to-peak amplitude of 0.141+/-0.009 mag. This allows us to reconstruct the 3D shape of the body, with principal semi-axes of a=313.8+/-7.1 km, b=265.5_-9.8_^+8.8^ km, and c=247.3_-43.6_^+26.6^ km, which is not consistent with a Jacobi triaxial equilibrium figure. The derived spherical volume equivalent diameter of 548.3_-44.6_^+29.5^ km is about 5% larger than the radiometric diameter of 2003 VS_2_ derived from Herschel data of 523+/-35 km, but still compatible with it within error bars. From those results we can also derive the geometric albedo (0.123_-0.014_^+0.015^) and, under the assumption that the object is a Maclaurin spheroid, the density {rho}=1400_-300_^+1000^ for the plutino. The disappearances and reappearances of the star during the occultations do not show any compelling evidence for a global atmosphere considering a pressure upper limit of about 1 microbar for a pure nitrogen atmosphere, nor secondary features (e.g., rings or satellite) around the main body.
