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We report a detection of statistically significant color variations for a sample of 7,531 multiply observed asteroids that are listed in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Moving Object Catalog. Using 5-band photometric observations accurate to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-09 G. Szabo , Z. Ivezic , M. Juric , R. H. Lupton , L. L. Kiss

Large and publicly available astronomical archives open up new possibilities to search and study Solar System objects. However, advanced techniques are required to deal with the large amounts of data. These unbiased surveys can be used to…

We report on our search for genetically related asteroids amongst the near-Earth object (NEO) population - families of NEOs akin to the well known main belt asteroid families. We used the technique proposed by Fu et al. (2005) supplemented…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-05 Eva Schunova , Mikael Granvik , Robert Jedicke , Giovanni Gronchi , Richard Wainscoat , Shinsuke Abe

We present a reanalysis of the relationship between asteroid albedo and polarization properties using the albedos derived from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. We find that the function that best describes this relation is a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Joseph R. Masiero , A. K. Mainzer , T. Grav , J. M. Bauer , E. L. Wright , R. S. McMillan , D. J. Tholen , A. W. Blain

We study K-type asteroids in the broad surroundings of the Eos family because they seem to be intimately related, according to their colours measured by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Such `halos' of asteroid families have been rarely used…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-08 Miroslav Brož , Alessandro Morbidelli

Families of asteroids generated by the collisional fragmentation of a common parent body have been identified using clustering methods of asteroids in their proper orbital element space. An alternative method has been developed in order to…

There are only a few known main belt (MB) asteroid families with ages greater than 2 Gyr (Bro\v{z} et al. 2013, Spoto et al. 2015). Estimates based on the family producing collision rate suggest that the lack of >2 Gyr-old families may be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Bryce T. Bolin , Marco Delbo , Alessandro Morbidelli , Kevin J. Walsh

Recent studies show that the Milky Way stellar halo is composed of populations of different origins, shaped by multiple accretion events. To better understand the formation of the Milky Way and other spiral galaxies, we characterize the…

Current amount of ~500 asteroid models derived from the disk-integrated photometry by the lightcurve inversion method allows us to study not only the spin-vector properties of the whole population of MBAs, but also of several individual…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 J. Hanuš , M. Brož , J. Ďurech , B. D. Warner , J. Brinsfield , R. Durkee , D. Higgins , R. A. Koff , J. Oey , F. Pilcher , R. Stephens , L. P. Strabla , Q. Ulisse , R. Girelli

We present the preliminary analysis of 1023 known asteroids in the Hilda region of the Solar System observed by the NEOWISE component of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The sizes of the Hildas observed range from $\sim 3 -…

A new family classification, based on a catalog of proper elements with $\sim 384,000$ numbered asteroids and on new methods is available. For the $45$ dynamical families with $>250$ members identified in this classification, we present an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Federica Spoto , Andrea Milani , Zoran Knezevic

We present a proof-of-concept of a novel and fully Bayesian methodology designed to detect halos of different masses in cosmological observations subject to noise and systematic uncertainties. Our methodology combines the previously…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Alexander I. Merson , Jens Jasche , Filipe B. Abdalla , Ofer Lahav , Benjamin Wandelt , D. Heath Jones , Matthew Colless

In preparation for the upcoming all-sky data releases of the Gaia mission, we compiled a catalog of known hot subdwarf stars and candidates drawn from the literature and yet unpublished databases. The catalog contains 5613 unique sources…

Quantifying the accuracy with which physical properties of asteroids can be determined from thermal modeling is critical to measuring the impact of infrared data on our understanding of asteroids. Previous work (Mainzer et al. 2011b) has…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Joseph R. Masiero , A. K. Mainzer , E. L. Wright

The study of asteroid families has provided tremendous insight into the forces that sculpted the main belt and continue to drive the collisional and dynamical evolution of asteroids. The identification of asteroid families within the NEO…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hai Fu , Robert Jedicke , Daniel D. Durda , Ronald Fevig , James V. Scotti

The distribution of asteroid sizes by semimajor axes and the distribution of the number of asteroids by albedo values for separate families are used to selection the asteroid families more clearly. An analysis of the families identified by…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-10 A. M. Kazantsev , L. V. Kazantseva

The distribution of asteroids across the Main Belt has been studied for decades to understand the compositional distribution and what that tells us about the formation and evolution of our solar system. All-sky surveys now provide orders of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Francesca DeMeo , Benoit Carry

We perform statistical wavelet analysis of the Main Belt asteroids, seeking statistically significant asteroid families. The goal is to test the new wavelet analysis algorithm and to compare its results with more traditional methods like…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 R. V. Baluev , E. I. Rodionov

We continue our investigation of the bulk properties of asteroid dynamical families identified using only asteroid proper elements (Milani et al. 2014) to provide plausible collisional interpretations. We focus on cratering families…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Andrea Milani , Zoran Knežević , Federica Spoto , Paolo Paolicchi

We searched for young asteroid families -- those with ages t_age < 10 Myr and at least three members -- using the proper element catalog from Nesvorny et al. (2024). Our approach employed the Hierarchical Clustering Method (HCM) in a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-04 David Nesvorny , David Vokrouhlicky , Miroslav Broz , Fernando V. Roig