BVRI photometry of 27 Kuiper Belt Objects Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Delsanti A.C.
  2. Boehnhardt H.
  3. Barrera L.
  4. Meech K.J
  5. Sekiguchi T.,Hainaut O.R.
  6. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present visible (BVRI) photometric measurements of 27 Trans-Neptunian objects, obtained with the FORS2 instrument on the ESO/8m Very Large Telescope (Unit 2) from runs during September and November 2000. The objects display a broad and continuous range of colors from neutral-bluish to very red. Most of the objects also have a linear reflectivity spectrum over the VRI range. There is no evidence of a bimodal color distribution as has been previously reported by other groups. Several objects (1994 TB, 1995 SM_55_, 1998 UR_43_, 1999CF_119_ and 2000 OK_67_) show evidence of changing color, and should be investigated further. The object 1995 SM_55_ deserves a more complete study since its neutral-blue colors suggest it could be a good candidate for hosting cometary activity.

Keywords
  1. asteroids
  2. infrared-photometry
  3. visible-astronomy
  4. Wide-band photometry
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2001A&A...380..347D
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/380/347
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.33800347

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History

2001-12-29T13:00:15Z
Resource record created
2001-12-29T12:00:50Z
Updated
2001-12-29T13:00:15Z
Created

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