- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/149/27
- Title:
- Cassini ISS astrometry of Saturnian satellites
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/149/27
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present numerically derived orbits and mass estimates for the inner Saturnian satellites, Atlas, Prometheus, Pandora, Janus, and Epimetheus from a fit to 2580 new Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem astrometric observations spanning 2004 February to 2013 August. The observations are provided as machine-readable and Virtual Observatory tables. We estimate GM_Atlas_=(0.384+/-0.001)x10^-3^km^3^/s^2^, a value 13% smaller than the previously published estimate but with an order of magnitude reduction in the uncertainty. We also find GM_Prometheus_=(10.677+/-0.006)x10^-3^km^3^/s^2^, GM_Pandora_=(9.133+/-0.009)x10^-3^km^3^/s^2^, GM_Janus_=(126.51+/-0.03)x10^-3^km^3^/s^2^, and GM_Epimetheus_=(35.110+/-0.009)x10^-3^km^3^/s^2^, consistent with previously published values, but also with significant reductions in uncertainties. We show that Atlas is currently librating in both the 54:53 co-rotation-eccentricity resonance (CER) and the 54:53 inner Lindblad (ILR) resonance with Prometheus, making it the latest example of a coupled CER-ILR system, in common with the Saturnian satellites Anthe, Aegaeon, and Methone, and possibly Neptune's ring arcs. We further demonstrate that Atlas's orbit is chaotic, with a Lyapunov time of ~10years, and show that its chaotic behavior is a direct consequence of the coupled resonant interaction with Prometheus, rather than being an indirect effect of the known chaotic interaction between Prometheus and Pandora. We provide an updated analysis of the second-order resonant perturbations involving Prometheus, Pandora, and Epimetheus based on the new observations, showing that these resonant arguments are librating only when Epimetheus is the innermost of the co-orbital pair, Janus and Epimetheus. We also find evidence that the known chaotic changes in the orbits of Prometheus and Pandora are not confined to times of apse anti-alignment.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/659/A38
- Title:
- Catalogs of potential detections of asteroids
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/659/A38
- Date:
- 02 Mar 2022 07:50:46
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The store of data collected in public astronomical archives across the world is continuously expanding and, thus, providing a convenient interface for accessing this information is a major concern for ensuring a second life for the data. In this context, Solar System objects (SSOs) are often difficult or even impossible to query, owing to their ever-changing sky coordinates. Our study is aimed at providing the scientific community with a search service for all potential detections of SSOs among the ESA astronomy archival imaging data, called the Solar System Object Search Service (SSOSS). We illustrate its functionalities using the case of asteroid (16) Psyche, for which no information in the far-IR (70-500 $\mu$m) has previously been reported, to derive its thermal properties in preparation for the upcoming NASA Psyche mission. We performed a geometrical cross-match of the orbital path of each object, as seen by the satellite reference frame, with respect to the public high-level imaging footprints stored in the ESA archives. There are about 800000 asteroids and 2000 comets included in the SSOSS, available through ESASky, providing both targeted and serendipitous observations. For this first release, three missions were chosen: XMM-Newton, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), and Herschel Observatory. We present a catalog listing all potential detections of asteroids within estimated limiting magnitude or flux limit in Herschel, XMM-Newton, and HST archival imaging data, including 909 serendipitous detections in Herschel images, 985 in XMM-Newton Optical Monitor camera images, and over 32000 potential serendipitous detections in HST images. We also present a case study: the analysis of the thermal properties of Psyche from four serendipitous Herschel detections, combined with previously published thermal IR measurements. We see strong evidence for an unusual drop in (hemispherical spectral) emissivity, from 0.9 at 100um down to about 0.6 at 350um, followed by a possible but not well-constrained increase towards 500um, comparable to what was found for Vesta. The combined thermal data set puts a strong constraint on Psyche's thermal inertia (between 20 to 80J/m^2^/s^1/2^/K) and favors an intermediate to low level surface roughness (below 0.4 for the rms of surface slopes). Conclusions: Using the example of Psyche, we show how the SSOSS provides fast access to observations of SSOs from the ESA astronomical archives, regardless of whether the particular object was the actual target. This greatly simplifies the task of searching, identifying, and retrieving such data for scientific analysis.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/PSS/53.925
- Title:
- CCD photometry of 23 minor planets
- Short Name:
- J/other/PSS/53.9
- Date:
- 14 Dec 2021 08:11:55
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present CCD photometric observations of 23 main-belt asteroids, of which 8 have never been observed before thus the data of these objects are the first in the literature. The majority showed well detectable light variations, exceeding 0.1m. We have determined synodic periods for 756 Lilliana (9.36),1270 Datura (3.4), 1400 Tirela (13.36), 1503 Kuopio (9.98), 3682 Welther (3.59), 7505 Furushu (4.14) and 11436 1969 QR (2.6), while uncertain period estimates were possible for 469 Argentina (12.3), 546 Herodias (10.4) and 1026 Ingrid (5.3). The shape of the lightcurves of 3682 Welther changed on a short time-scale and showed dimmings that might be attributed to eclipses in a binary system. For the remaining objects, only lower limits of the periods and amplitudes were concluded.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/652/A141
- Title:
- Chariklo's system from stellar occultations
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/652/A141
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Centaur (10199) Chariklo has the first rings system discovered around a small object. It was first observed using stellar occultation in 2013. Stellar occultations allow the determination of sizes and shapes with kilometre accuracy and obtain characteristics of the occulting object and its vicinity. Using stellar occultations observed between 2017 and 2020, we aim at constraining Chariklo's and its rings physical parameters. We also determine the rings' structure, and obtain precise astrometrical positions of Chariklo. We predicted and organised several observational campaigns of stellar occultations by Chariklo. Occultation light curves were measured from the data sets, from which ingress and egress times, and rings' width and opacity were obtained. These measurements, combined with results from previous works, allow us to obtain significant constraints on Chariklo's shape and rings' structure. We characterise Chariklo's ring system (C1R and C2R), and obtain radii and pole orientations that are consistent with, but more accurate than, results from previous occultations. We confirmed the detection of W-shaped structures within C1R and an evident variation of radial width. The observed width ranges between 4.8 and 9.1km with a mean value of 6.5km. One dual observation (visible and red) does not reveal any differences in the C1R opacity profiles, indicating ring particle's size larger than a few microns. The C1R ring eccentricity is found to be smaller than 0.022 (3-sigma), and its width variations may indicate an eccentricity higher than 0.005. We fit a tri-axial shape to Chariklo's detections over eleven occultations and determine that Chariklo is consistent with an ellipsoid with semi-axes of 143.8, 135.2 and 99.1km. Ultimately, we provided seven astrometric positions at a milliarcseconds accuracy level, based on Gaia EDR3, and use it to improve Chariklo's ephemeris.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/119/2008
- Title:
- 10199 Chariklo stellar occultation: 1999-2005
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/119/2008
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Flagstaff Astrometric Scanning Transit Telescope was used to scan the sky in search of occultation candidates through which the Centaur 10199 Chariklo (formerly 1997 CU_26_) will pass in 1999-2005. Positions for 96,397 stars (magnitudes 7.5<V<17.3) were determined using differential reductions to the ACT catalog of star positions and proper motions, and accuracies of +/-30mas were achieved for well-exposed images. The ephemeris for 10199 Chariklo was improved by including the new positions presented in this paper and, second, by correcting older positions taken from the literature for systematic errors. During this time period, 10199 Chariklo passes within 2" of 117 of these stars, which are identified as occultation candidates in this paper. Among these, 28 candidates have magnitudes V<15.0, making them the best choices for observing programs using portable telescopes. Circumstances for each occultation are given. Because the angular radius of 10199 Chariklo is only about 15mas, the astrometry provided in this paper is only accurate enough for identifying possible occultation events and is not sufficient for predicting individual shadow paths across the surface of Earth, although representative cases are given. Last-minute astrometry with a large-aperture telescope will be needed to refine each prediction.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/406/751
- Title:
- Close encounters of asteroids 2003-2020
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/406/751
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Selection have been made of asteroids-asteroids close encounters inducing perturbations large enough to deduce masses of perturbing objects. In tablea1.dat, and tablea3.dat, the epoch of encounters is given as well as the impact parameter, the relative distance and the criterion of maximum deflection (see section 2). The epoch of encounters is defined as the epoch when the relative distance or velocity between the two asteroids become minimum or the criterion of deflection becomes maximum. The ({Delta}{alpha},{Delta}{delta}) given in tables are the maximum differences in right ascension and declination between the perturbed and the unperturbed orbits and the epoch of maximum ({Delta}{alpha},{Delta}{delta}) is defined as the mean epoch for the maximum values of ({Delta}{alpha},{Delta}{delta}). Finally, in tablea2.dat and tablea4.dat, we give the observability of each encounters. We give the periods when the asteroids have a mean solar elongation greater than 50 degrees and when the perturbations of the orbits induced by the Multiple Gravitational Event (MGE) are greater than 50 mas. Mean values of these perturbations in right ascension and declination computed over the corresponding periods are given in Columns 4 and 5.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/157/228
- Title:
- Cold Classical TNOs: LCs & rotational properties
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/157/228
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a survey of the rotational and physical properties of the dynamically low inclination Cold Classical (CC) trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). The CCs are primordial planetesimals and contain information about our solar system and planet formation over the first 100 million years after the Sun's formation. We obtained partial/complete light curves for 42 CCs. We use statistical tests to derive general properties about the shape and rotational frequency distributions of the CCs and infer that they have slower rotations and are more elongated/deformed than the other TNOs. On the basis of the full light curves, the mean rotational period of the CCs is 9.48+/-1.53 hr compared to 8.45+/-0.58 hr for the rest of the TNOs. About 65% of the TNOs have a light-curve amplitude below 0.2 mag compared to the 36% of CCs with small amplitude. We present the full light curve of one likely contact binary, 2004 VC_131_, with a potential density of 1 g/cm^3^ for a mass ratio of 0.4. We have hints that 2004 MU_8_ and 2004 VU_75_ are perhaps potential contact binaries, on the basis of their sparse light curves, but more data are needed to confirm this finding. Assuming equal-sized binaries, we find that ~10%-25% of the CCs could be contact binaries, suggesting a deficit of contact binaries in this population compared to previous estimates and to the (~40%-50%) possible contact binaries in the Plutino population. These estimates are lower limits and may increase if nonequal-sized contact binaries are considered. Finally, we put in context the results of the New Horizons flyby of 2014 MU_69_.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/546/A115
- Title:
- Colors of minor bodies in outer solar system
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/546/A115
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Photometric colours of Minor Bodies in the Outer Solar System (MBOSS). This compilation is based on over 2000 measurement epoch extracted from over 100 articles, and is fairly complete as of Dec. 2011. The average colours and additional information are available in the first file. The second file lists the code of the references used for each object. The third file lists the actual references in bibTex format. The methods used to select the data and compute the averages are described in the accompanying paper. The updated lists are available online at http://www.eso.org/~ohainaut/MBOSS Average photometric colours of Minor Bodies in the Outer Solar System. The table also lists their physico-dynamical class, the number of measurement epochs included in the average, the absolute R-band magnitude R(1,1,{alpha}), and the slope of the spectroscopic gradient (in %/100nm). are presented in table2.dat. For each MBOSS from table2.dat, table3.dat list of the references from which photometric measurements were used. The table also lists the number of measurement epochs included in the average.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/389/641
- Title:
- Colors of Minor Bodies in the Outer Solar System
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/389/641
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a compilation of all available colors for 104 Minor Bodies in the Outer Solar System (MBOSSes); for each object, the original references are listed. The measurements were combined in a way that does not introduce rotational color artifacts. We then derive the slope, or reddening gradient, of the low resolution reflectance spectra obtained from the broad-band color for each object. A set of color-color diagrams, histograms and cumulative probability functions are presented as a reference for further studies, and are discussed.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/243/12
- Title:
- Colors of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/243/12
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Colours of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey is acquiring near-simultaneous g, r, and J photometry of unprecedented precision with the Gemini North Telescope, targeting nearly 100 trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) brighter than m_r_=23.6mag discovered in the Outer Solar System Origins Survey. Combining the optical and near-infrared photometry with the well-characterized detection efficiency of the Colours of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey target sample will provide the first flux-limited compositional dynamical map of the outer solar system. In this paper, we describe our observing strategy and detail the data reduction processes we employ, including techniques to mitigate the impact of rotational variability. We present optical and near-infrared colors for 35 TNOs. We find two taxonomic groups for the dynamically excited TNOs, the neutral and red classes, which divide at g-r~0.75. Based on simple albedo and orbital distribution assumptions, we find that the neutral class outnumbers the red class, with a ratio of 4:1 and potentially as high as 11:1. Including in our analysis constraints from the cold classical objects, which are known to exhibit unique albedos and r-z colors, we find that within our measurement uncertainty our observations are consistent with the primordial solar system protoplanetesimal disk being neutral class dominated, with two major compositional divisions in grJ color space.