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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Devogèle, Maxime
• MacLennan, Eric
• Gustafsson, Annika
• Moskovitz, Nicholas
• Chatelain, Joey
• Borisov, Galin
• Abe, Shinsuke
• Arai, Tomoko
• Fedorets, Grigori
• Ferrais, Marin
• Granvik, Mikael
• Jehin, Emmanuel
• Siltala, Lauri
• Pöntinen, Mikko
• Mommert, Michael
• Polishook, David
• Skiff, Brian
• Tanga, Paolo
• Yoshida, Fumi

Titel

New Evidence for a Physical Link between Asteroids (155140) 2005 UD and (3200) Phaethon

Ist Teil von

• The planetary science journal, 2020-06, Vol.1 (1), p.15

Ort / Verlag

IOP Publishing

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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EZB Free E-Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Abstract In 2018, the near-Earth object (155140) 2005 UD (hereafter UD) experienced a close fly by of the Earth. We present results from an observational campaign involving photometric, spectroscopic, and polarimetric observations carried out across a wide range of phase angles (0.°7–88°). We also analyze archival NEOWISE observations. We report an absolute magnitude of H V  = 17.51 ± 0.02 mag and an albedo of p V  = 0.10 ± 0.02. UD has been dynamically linked to Phaethon due their similar orbital configurations. Assuming similar surface properties, we derived new estimates for the diameters of Phaethon and UD of D  = 5.4 ± 0.5 km and D  = 1.3 ± 0.1 km, respectively. Thermophysical modeling of NEOWISE data suggests a surface thermal inertia of and regolith grain size in the range of 0.9–10 mm for UD and grain sizes of 3–30 mm for Phaethon. The light curve of UD displays a symmetric shape with a reduced amplitude of Am (0) = 0.29 mag and increasing at a linear rate of 0.017 mag/° between phase angles of 0° and ∼25°. Little variation in light-curve morphology was observed throughout the apparition. Using light-curve inversion techniques, we obtained a sidereal rotation period P  = 5.235 ± 0.005 hr. A search for rotational variation in spectroscopic and polarimetric properties yielded negative results within observational uncertainties of ∼10% μ m −1 and ∼16%, respectively. In this work, we present new evidence that Phaethon and UD are similar in composition and surface properties, strengthening the arguments for a genetic relationship between these two objects.