R-band K2 photometry of main-belt asteroids Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Molnar L.
  2. Pal A.
  3. Sarneczky K.
  4. Szabo R.
  5. Vinko J.
  6. Szabo G.M.
  7. Kiss C.,Hanyecz O.
  8. Marton G.
  9. Kiss L.L.
  10. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present the K2 light curves of a large sample of untargeted main-belt asteroids (MBAs) detected with the Kepler Space Telescope. The asteroids were observed within the Uranus superstamp, a relatively large, continuous field with a low stellar background designed to cover the planet Uranus and its moons during Campaign 8 of the K2 mission. The superstamp offered the possibility of obtaining precise, uninterrupted light curves of a large number of MBAs and thus determining unambiguous rotation rates for them. We obtained photometry for 608 MBAs, and were able to determine or estimate rotation rates for 90 targets, of which 86 had no known values before. In an additional 16 targets we detected incomplete cycles and/or eclipse-like events. We found the median rotation rate to be significantly longer than that of the ground-based observations, indicating that the latter are biased toward shorter rotation rates. Our study highlights the need and benefits of further continuous photometry of asteroids.

Keywords
  1. asteroids
  2. photometry
  3. visible-astronomy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2018ApJS..234...37M
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/234/37
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/234/37
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.22340037

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https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/234/37
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http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/234/37
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https://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tap
Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).

History

2018-08-31T09:13:56Z
Resource record created
2018-08-31T09:13:56Z
Created
2018-10-22T12:19:34Z
Updated

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