- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/610/A25
- Title:
- Sulamitis and Clarissa asteroids spectra
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/610/A25
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The low-inclination (i<80{deg}) primitive asteroid families in the inner main belt, that is, Polana-Eulalia, Erigone, Sulamitis, and Clarissa, are considered to be the most likely sources of near-Earth asteroids (101955) Bennu and (162173) Ryugu. These two primitive NEAs will be visited by NASA OSIRIS-REx and JAXA Hayabusa 2 missions, respectively, with the aim of collecting samples of material from their surfaces and returning them back to Earth. In this context, the Primitive Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey (PRIMASS) was born, with the main aim to characterize the possible origins of these NEAs and constrain their dynamical evolution. As part of the PRIMASS survey we have already studied the Polana and Erigone collisional families in previously published works. The main goal of the work presented here is to compositionally characterize the Sulamitis and Clarissa families using visible spectroscopy. We have observed 97 asteroids (64 from Sulamitis and 33 from Clarissa) with the OSIRIS instrument (0.5-0.9um) at the 10.4m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC). We found that about 60% of the sampled asteroids from the Sulamitis family show signs of aqueous alteration on their surfaces. We also found that the majority of the Clarissa members present no signs of hydration. The results obtained here show similarities between Sulamitis-Erigone, and Clarissa-Polana collisional families.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/403/1089
- Title:
- SUNS and DEBRIS surveys target selection
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/403/1089
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Debris discs - analogous to the asteroid and Kuiper-Edgeworth belts in the Solar system - have so far mostly been identified and studied in thermal emission shortward of 100um. The Herschel space observatory and the Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array-2 (SCUBA-2) camera on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope will allow efficient photometric surveying at 70 to 850um, which allows for the detection of cooler discs not yet discovered, and the measurement of disc masses and temperatures when combined with shorter wavelength photometry. The SCUBA-2 Unbiased Nearby Stars survey (SUNS) and the Disc Emission via a Bias-free Reconnaissance in the Infrared/Submillimetre (DEBRIS) Herschel Open Time Key Project are complementary legacy surveys observing samples of ~500 nearby stellar systems. To maximize the legacy value of these surveys, great care has gone into the target selection process. This paper describes the target selection process and presents the target lists of these two surveys.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/617/A12
- Title:
- Taxonomic classification of asteroids
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/617/A12
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We tabulate the taxonomic classification of 18265 asteroids catalogued by MOVIS. A probabilistic method and the k-nearest neighbors (KNN k=3) algorithm are used to assign a taxonomic type for each object.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/653/A66
- Title:
- TEXES spectra of Saturn from February 03 2013
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/653/A66
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The abundance of deuterium in giant planet atmospheres provides constraints on the reservoirs of ices incorporated into these worlds during their formation and evolution. Motivated by discrepancies in the measured deuterium-hydrogen ratio (D/H) on Jupiter and Saturn, we present a new measurement of the D/H ratio in methane for Saturn from ground-based measurements. We analysed a spectral cube (covering 1151-1160cm^-1^ from 6 February 2013) from the Texas Echelon Cross Echelle Spectrograph (TEXES) on NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) where emission lines from both methane and deuterated methane are well resolved. Our estimate of the D/H ratio in stratospheric methane, 1.65(-0.21/+0.27)*10^-5^ is in agreement with results derived from Cassini CIRS and ISO/SWS observations, confirming the unexpectedly low CH3D abundance. Assuming a fractionation factor of 1.34(+/-0.19) we derive a hydrogen D/H of 1.23(-0.23/+0.27)*10^-5^. This value remains lower than previous tropospheric hydrogen D/H measurements of (i) Saturn 2.10(+/-0.13)*10^-5^, (ii) Jupiter 2.6(+/-0.7)*10^-5^ and (iii) the proto-solar hydrogen D/H of 2.1(+/-0.5)*10^-5^, suggesting that the fractionation factor may not be appropriate for stratospheric methane, or that the D/H ratio in Saturn's stratosphere is not representative of the bulk of the planet.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/639/A134
- Title:
- The large TNO 2002 TC302
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/639/A134
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- On 28th January 2018, the large Trans-Neptunian Object 2002 TC_302_ occulted a m_v_~15.3 star with designation 593-005847 in the UCAC4 stellar catalog, corresponding to Gaia source 130957813463146112. Twelve positive occultation chords were obtained from Italy, France, Slovenia and Switzerland. Also, four negative detections were obtained near the north and south limbs. This represents the best observed stellar occultation by a TNO other than Pluto in terms of the number of chords published thus far. From the twelve chords, an accurate elliptical fit to the instantaneous projection of the body can be obtained, compatible with the near misses. The resulting ellipse has major and minor axes of 543+/-18km and 460+/-11km, respectively, with a position angle of 3+/-1 degrees for the minor axis. This information, combined with rotational light curves obtained with the 1.5-m telescope at Sierra Nevada Observatory and the 1.23-m telescope at Calar Alto observatory, allows us to derive possible three-dimensional shapes and density estimations for the body based on hydrostatic equilibrium assumptions. The effective diameter in equivalent area is around 84km smaller than the radiometrically derived diameter using thermal data from Herschel and Spitzer Space Telescopes. This might indicate the existence of an unresolved satellite of up to ~300km in diameter, to account for all the thermal flux, although the occultation and thermal diameters are compatible within their error bars given the considerable uncertainty of the thermal results. The existence of a potential satellite also appears to be consistent with other ground-based data presented here. From the effective occultation diameter combined with absolute magnitude measurements we derive a geometric albedo of 0.147+/-0.005, which would be somewhat smaller if 2002 TC_302_ has a satellite. The best occultation light curves do not show any signs of ring features or any signatures of a global atmosphere.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/VI/122
- Title:
- The Marginal Zone of the Moon - Watts' Charts
- Short Name:
- VI/122
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The WATTS' charts provide the elevation of the limb of the moon using 1800 contour maps (step of 0.2deg) that cover all libration ranges of the moon. The contours of the maps were digitised by H.M. Nautical Almanac Office in the late 1960's, and then converted to a grid format by US Naval Observatory in the early 1970's. These charts are present in 2 forms: as an ascii file watts.dat (without carriage-return or line-feed!), or as a 3-D FITS file watts.fit (transformed from the ascii files with the program "make_fit.c"). More details, especially about the transformations between the original charts and the files stored here, and the special processing of the 36.0{deg} map (map#181), can be found in the "doc.txt" file.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/153/147
- Title:
- The orbits of Jupiter's irregular satellites
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/153/147
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report on the improved ephemerides for the irregular Jovian satellites. We used a combination of numerically integrated equations of motion and a weighted least-squares algorithm to fit the astrometric measurements. The orbital fits for 59 satellites are summarized in terms of state vectors, post-fit residuals, and mean orbital elements. The current data set appears to be sensitive to the mass of Himalia, which is constrained to the range of GM=0.13-0.28 km^3^/s^2^. Here, GM is the product of the Newtonian constant of gravitation, G and the body's mass, M. Our analysis of the orbital uncertainties indicates that 11 out of 59 satellites are lost owing to short data arcs. The lost satellites hold provisional International Astronomical Union (IAU) designations and will likely need to be rediscovered.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/156/60
- Title:
- Thermal model fits for short-arc NEOs with NEOWISE
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/156/60
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Automated asteroid detection routines set requirements on the number of detections, signal-to-noise ratio, and the linearity of the expected motion in order to balance completeness, reliability, and time delay after data acquisition when identifying moving object tracklets. However, when the full-frame data from a survey are archived, they can be searched later for asteroids that were below the initial detection thresholds. We have conducted such a search of the first three years of the reactivated Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer data, looking for near-Earth objects discovered by ground-based surveys that have previously unreported thermal infrared data. Using these measurements, we can then perform thermal modeling to measure the diameters and albedos of these objects. We present new physical properties for 116 Near-Earth Objects found in this search.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/625/A139
- Title:
- Thermal properties of slow asteroids
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/625/A139
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Earlier work suggests that slowly rotating asteroids should have higher thermal inertias than faster rotators because the heat wave penetrates deeper into the subsurface. However, thermal inertias have been determined mainly for fast rotators due to selection effects in the available photometry used to obtain shape models required for thermophysical modelling (TPM). Our aims are to mitigate these selection effects by producing shape models of slow rotators, to scale them and compute their thermal inertia with TPM, and to verify whether thermal inertia increases with the rotation period. To decrease the bias against slow rotators, we conducted a photometric observing campaign of main-belt asteroids with periods longer than 12h, from multiple stations worldwide, adding in some cases data from WISE and Kepler space telescopes. For spin and shape reconstruction we used the lightcurve inversion method, and to derive thermal inertias we applied a thermophysical model to fit available infrared data from IRAS, AKARI, and WISE. We present new models of 11 slow rotators that provide a good fit to the thermal data. In two cases, the TPM analysis showed a clear preference for one of the two possible mirror solutions. We derived the diameters and albedos of our targets in addition to their thermal inertias, which ranged between 3_-3_^+33^ and 45_-30_^+60^J/m^2^/s^1/2^/K. Together with our previous work, we have analysed 16 slow rotators from our dense survey with sizes between 30 and 150 km. The current sample thermal inertias vary widely, which does not confirm the earlier suggestion that slower rotators have higher thermal inertias.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/658/A109
- Title:
- The SkyMapper DR3 SSOs
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/658/A109
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The populations of small bodies of the Solar System (asteroids, comets, and Kuiper Belt objects) are used to constrain the origin and evolution of the Solar System. Their orbital distribution and composition distribution are both required to track the dynamical pathway from their formation regions to their current locations. We aim to increase the sample of Solar System objects (SSOs) that have multifilter photometry and compositional taxonomy. Methods. We searched for moving objects in the SkyMapper Southern Survey. We used the predicted SSO positions to extract photometry and astrometry from the SkyMapper frames. We then applied a suite of filters to clean the catalog from false-positive detections. We finally used the near-simultaneous photometry to assign a taxonomic class to objects. We release a catalog of 880,528 individual observations, consisting of 205515 known and unique SSOs. The catalog completeness is estimated to be about 97% down to V=18mag and the purity is higher than 95% for known SSOs. The near-simultaneous photometry provides either three, two, or a single color that we use to classify 117356 SSOs with a scheme consistent with the widely used Bus-DeMeo taxonomy. The present catalog contributes significantly to the sample of asteroids with known surface properties (about 40% of main-belt asteroids down to an absolute magnitude of 16). We will release more observations of SSOs with future SkyMapper data releases.
