Shapes, rotations, photometric and internal properties of Jupiter Trojans

S Mottola, DT Britt, ME Brown, MW Buie, KS Noll… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The Jupiter Trojans, being trapped around the stable L4 and L5 Jupiter Lagrangian
points, are thought to be more primitive than the Main Belt asteroids. They are believed to …

Spectrophotometric properties of the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from the OSIRIS instrument onboard the ROSETTA spacecraft

S Fornasier, PH Hasselmann, MA Barucci… - Astronomy & …, 2015 - aanda.org
Context. The Rosetta mission of the European Space Agency has been orbiting the comet
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P) since August 2014 and is now in its escort phase. A …

Asteroid light curves from the Palomar Transient Factory survey: rotation periods and phase functions from sparse photometry

A Waszczak, CK Chang, EO Ofek, R Laher… - The Astronomical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We fit 54,296 sparsely sampled asteroid light curves in the Palomar Transient Factory survey
to a combined rotation plus phase-function model. Each light curve consists of 20 or more …

WISE/NEOWISE observations of the Jovian Trojan population: Taxonomy

T Grav, AK Mainzer, JM Bauer, JR Masiero… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We present updated/new thermal model fits for 478 Jovian Trojan asteroids observed with
the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). Using the fact that the two shortest bands …

Shape models of Lucy targets (3548) Eurybates and (21900) Orus from disk-integrated photometry

S Mottola, S Hellmich, MW Buie… - The Planetary …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We use our new light curves, along with historical data, to determine the rotation state,
photometric properties, and convex shape models of the targets of the Lucy mission (3548) …

Asteroid observations at low phase angles. IV. Average parameters for the new H, G1, G2 magnitude system

VG Shevchenko, IN Belskaya, K Muinonen… - Planetary and Space …, 2016 - Elsevier
We present new observational data for selected main-belt asteroids of different
compositional types. The detailed magnitude–phase dependences including small phase …

The Trojan color conundrum

D Jewitt - The Astronomical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Trojan asteroids of Jupiter and Neptune are likely to have been captured from
original heliocentric orbits in the dynamically excited (" hot") population of the Kuiper Belt …

The complex history of Trojan asteroids

JP Emery, F Marzari, A Morbidelli, LM French… - Asteroids IV, 2015 - books.google.com
The Trojan asteroids, orbiting the Sun in Jupiter's stable Lagrange points, provide a unique
perspective on the history of our solar system. As a large population of small bodies, they …

Phobos photometric properties from Mars Express HRSC observations

S Fornasier, A Wargnier, PH Hasselmann… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Aims. This study aims to analyze Phobos' photometric properties using Mars Express
mission observations to support the Martian Moons exploration mission (MMX) devoted to …

Decimetre-scaled spectrophotometric properties of the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko from OSIRIS observations

C Feller, S Fornasier, PH Hasselmann… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We present the results of the photometric and spectrophotometric properties of the
67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko nucleus derived with the Optical, Spectroscopic and Infrared …