Asteroid families identification Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Carruba V.
  2. Domingos R.C.
  3. Nesvorny D.
  4. Roig F.
  5. Huaman M.E.
  6. Souami D.
  7. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

It has been shown that large families are not limited to what found by hierarchical clustering methods (HCM) in the domain of proper elements (a,e,sin(i)), that seems to be biased to find compact, relatively young clusters, but that there exists an extended population of objects with similar taxonomy and geometric albedo, that can extend to much larger regions in proper elements and frequencies domains: the family "halo". Numerical simulations can be used to provide estimates of the age of the family halo, that can then be compared with ages of the family obtained with other methods. Determining a good estimate of the possible orbital extension of a family halo is therefore quite important, if one is interested in determining its age and, possibly, the original ejection velocity field. Previous works have identified families halos by an analysis in proper elements domains, or by using Sloan Digital Sky Survey-Moving Object Catalog data, fourth release (SDSS-MOC4) multi-band photometry to infer the asteroid taxonomy, or by a combination of the two methods. The limited number of asteroids for which geometric albedo was known until recently discouraged in the past the extensive use of this additional parameter, which is however of great importance in identifying an asteroid taxonomy. The new availability of geometric albedo data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission for about 100,000 asteroids significantly increased the sample of objects for which such information, with some errors, is now known. In this work we proposed a new method to identify families halos in a multi-domain space composed by proper elements, SDSS-MOC4 (a, i-z) colors, and WISE geometric albedo for the whole main belt (and the Hungaria and Cybele orbital regions). Assuming that most families were created by the breakup of an undifferentiated parent body, they are expected to be homogeneous in colors and albedo. The new method is quite effective in determining objects belonging to a family halo, with low percentages of likely interlopers, and results that are quite consistent in term of taxonomy and geometric albedo of the halo members.

Keywords
  1. asteroids
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2013MNRAS.433.2075C
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/433/2075
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/433/2075
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.74332075

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History

2013-07-18T06:05:31Z
Resource record created
2013-07-18T06:05:31Z
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