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We report the discovery and characterization of PSR J1810-0623, a fully recycled millisecond pulsar with a spin period of 4.55 ms, discovered with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) and followed up with FAST…

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We investigated the size distribution of high-inclination main-belt asteroids (MBAs) to explore asteroid collisional evolution under hypervelocity collisions of around 10 km/s. We performed a wide-field survey for high-inclination sub-km…

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We calculate an empirical, non-parametric estimate of the shape of the period-marginalized radius distribution of planets with periods less than 150 days using the small yet well-characterized sample of cool ($T_{\rm eff} <4000 $K) dwarf…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Timothy D. Morton , Jonathan J. Swift

Rotational dynamics of asteroids carry important information about their internal structure, collisional history and material composition. This work investigates whether M-type asteroids exhibit systematically higher rotation rates than the…

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Rotation periods of 53 small (diameters $2 < D < 40$ km) Jupiter Trojans (JTs) were derived using the high-cadence light curves obtained by the FOSSIL phase I survey, a Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam intensive program. These are the first…

Boulders, rocks and regolith on fast rotating asteroids (<2.5 hours) are modeled to slide towards the equator due to a strong centrifugal force and a low cohesion force. As a result, regions of fresh subsurface material can be exposed.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-16 David Polishook , Nicholas Moskovitz

Asteroid (3200) Phaethon, a B-type asteroid, has been active during its perihelion passages. This asteroid is considered to be a source of the Geminid meteor stream. It is reported that this asteroid is spinning at a rotation period of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 Ryota Nakano , Masatoshi Hirabayashi

We present new thermophysical model (TPM) fits of 1,847 asteroids, deriving thermal inertia, diameter, and Bond and visible geometric albedo. We use thermal flux measurements obtained by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE; Wright…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-04 Denise Hung , Josef Hanuš , Joseph R. Masiero , David J. Tholen

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 space-based thermal infrared observations of the presumably Geminid-associated asteroids: (3200)Phaethon, 2005 UD and 1999 YC using WISE/NEOWISE. The images were taken at the four wavelength bands…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Toshihiro Kasuga , Joseph R. Masiero

We describe active asteroid 331P/Gibbs (2012 F5) using archival Hubble Space Telescope data taken between 2015 and 2018. 331P is an outer main-belt active asteroid with a long-lived debris trail that formed in 2011. Embedded in the debris…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 David Jewitt , Jing Li , Yoonyoung Kim

We present timing observations of four millisecond pulsars discovered in the Parkes 20-cm multibeam pulsar survey of the Galactic plane. PSRs J1552-4937 and J1843-1448 are isolated objects with spin periods of 6.28 and 5.47 ms respectively.…

We present a rotational velocity (vsini) survey of 32 stellar/substellar objects and giant planets using Keck/KPIC high-resolution spectroscopy, including 6 giant planets (2-7 M$_\mathrm{Jup}$) and 25 substellar/stellar companions (12-88…

Breakthrough direct detections of planetary companions orbiting A-type stars confirm the existence of massive planets at relatively large separations, but dedicated surveys are required to estimate the frequency of similar planetary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 A. Vigan , J. Patience , C. Marois , M. Bonavita , R. J. De Rosa , B. Macintosh , I. Song , R. Doyon , B. Zuckerman , D. Lafrenière , T. Barman

Although many near-Earth objects have been found by ground-based telescopes, some fast-moving ones, especially those near detection limits, have been missed by observatories. We developed a convolutional neural network for detecting faint…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Franklin Wang , Jian Ge , Kevin Willis

We report results of photometry of the intermediate polar V515 And. The observations were obtained over 33 nights in 2008 and 2009. The total duration of the observations was 233 h. We clearly detected two oscillations with periods of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 V. P. Kozhevnikov

In this paper, a 3D convex shape model of (175706) 1996 FG3, which consists of 2040 triangle facets and 1022 vertices, is derived from the known lightcurves. The best-fit orientation of the asteroid's spin axis is determined to be $\lambda…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-01 LiangLiang Yu , Jianghui Ji , Su Wang

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

We present fully covered phased light curves for 56 Jovian Trojan asteroids as acquired by the K2 mission of the Kepler space telescope. This set of objects has been monitored during Campaign 6 and represents a nearly unbiased subsample of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Gy. M. Szabó , A. Pál , Cs. Kiss , L. L. Kiss , L. Molnár , O. Hanyecz , E. Plachy , K. Sárneczky , R. Szabó

We examine the spectral properties of asteroid pairs that were disrupted in the last 2 Myrs to examine whether the site of the fission can be revealed. We studied the possibility that the sub-surface material, perhaps on one hemisphere, has…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 David Polishook , Nicholas Moskovitz , Francesca DeMeo , Richard P. Binzel