List of new asteroid models Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Durech J.
  2. Hanus J.
  3. Vanco R.
  4. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Rotation properties (spin-axis direction and rotation period) and coarse shape models of asteroids can be reconstructed from their disk-integrated brightness when measured from various viewing geometries. These physical properties are essential for creating a global picture of structure and dynamical evolution of the main belt. The number of shape and spin models can be increased not only when new data are available, but also by combining independent data sets and inverting them together. Our aim was to derive new asteroid models by processing readily available photometry. We used asteroid photometry compiled in the Lowell Observatory photometry database with photometry from the Gaia Data Release 2. Both data sources are available for about 5400 asteroids. In the framework of the Asteroids@home distributed computing project, we applied the light curve inversion method to each asteroid to find its convex shape model and spin state that fits the observed photometry. Due to the limited number of Gaia DR2 data points and poor photometric accuracy of Lowell data, we were able to derive unique models for only ~1100 asteroids. Nevertheless, 762 of these are new models that significantly enlarge the current database of about 1600 asteroid models. Our results demonstrate the importance of a combined approach to inversion of asteroid photometry. While our models in general agree with those obtained by separate inversion of Lowell and Gaia data, the combined inversion is more robust, model parameters are more constrained, and unique models can be reconstructed in many cases when individual data sets alone are not sufficient.

Keywords
  1. Photometry
  2. Asteroids
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2019A&A...631A...2D
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/631/A2
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/631/A2
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.36310002

Access

Web browser access HTML
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/A+A/631/A2
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/A+A/631/A2
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/A+A/631/A2
IVOA Table Access TAP
http://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tap
Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).
IVOA Cone Search SCS
For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/A+A/631/A2/table1?
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/A+A/631/A2/table1?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/A+A/631/A2/table1?

History

2019-10-11T07:04:08Z
Resource record created
2019-10-11T07:04:08Z
Created
2020-04-08T10:43:50Z
Updated

Contact

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CDS support team
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