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We used WISE-derived geometric albedos (p_V) and diameters, as well as geometric albedos and diameters from the literature, to produce more accurate diurnal Yarkovsky drift predictions for 540 near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) out of the current…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 C. R. Nugent , A. Mainzer , J. Masiero , T. Grav , J. Bauer

The NEOWISE dataset offers the opportunity to study the variations in albedo for asteroid classification schemes based on visible and near-infrared observations for a large sample of minor planets. We have determined the albedos for nearly…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Mainzer , T. Grav , J. Masiero , J. Bauer , E. Hand , D. Tholen , R. S. McMillan , T. Spahr , R. M. Cutri , E. Wright , J. Watkins , W. Mo , C. Maleszewski

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

Equation of state (EOS) insensitive relations, so-called universal relations, between the neutron star (NS) compactness, its multipolar tidal deformability coefficients, and between the tidal parameters for binary systems are essential to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-31 Daniel A. Godzieba , Rossella Gamba , David Radice , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

We present full-sky coadded maps created by uniformly combining the first five years of Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and NEOWISE imaging at 3.4 microns (W1) and 4.6 microns (W2). By incorporating both pre-hibernation WISE…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 A. M. Meisner , D. Lang , E. F. Schlafly , D. J. Schlegel

Robust impact monitoring of near-Earth objects is an essential task of planetary defense. Current systems such as NASA's Sentry-II, the University of Pisa's CLOMON2, and ESA's Aegis have been highly successful, but independent approaches…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Dmitrii E. Vavilov , Daniel Hestroffer

Recent work has shown that the correlation between SDSS colors and optical albedo can be used to estimate asteroid sizes from optical data alone. We revisit a correlation between SDSS colors and optical albedo for asteroids, with the albedo…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Vedrana Ivezić , Željko Ivezić

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

CatWISE is a program to catalog sources selected from combined ${\it WISE}$ and ${\it NEOWISE}$ all-sky survey data at 3.4 and 4.6 $\mu$m (W1 and W2). The CatWISE Preliminary Catalog consists of 900,849,014 sources measured in data…

Only a very small fraction of the asteroid population at size scales comparable to the object that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia has been discovered to date, and physical properties are poorly characterized. We present previously…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Mainzer , J. Bauer , T. Grav , J. Masiero , R. M. Cutri , E. L. Wright , C. R. Nugent , R. Stevenson , E. Clyne , G. Cukrov , F. Masci

As evidenced by recent survey results, majority of asteroids are slow rotators (P>12 h), but lack spin and shape models due to selection bias. This bias is skewing our overall understanding of the spins, shapes, and sizes of asteroids, as…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-08 A. Marciniak , J. Ďurech , A. Choukroun , J. Hanuš , W. Ogłoza , R. Szakáts , L. Molnár , A. Pál , F. Monteiro , E. Frappa , W. Beisker , H. Pavlov , J. Moore , R. Adomavičienė , R. Aikawa , S. Andersson , P. Antonini , Y. Argentin , A. Asai , P. Assoignon , J. Barton , P. Baruffetti , K. L. Bath , R. Behrend , L. Benedyktowicz , L. Bernasconi , G. Biguet , M. Billiani , D. Błażewicz , R. Boninsegna , M. Borkowski , J. Bosch , S. Brazill , M. Bronikowska , A. Bruno , M. Butkiewicz - Bąk , J. Caron , G. Casalnuovo , J. J. Castellani , P. Ceravolo , M. Conjat , P. Delincak , J. Delpau , C. Demeautis , A. Demirkol , M. Dróżdż , R. Duffard , C. Durandet , D. Eisfeldt , M. Evangelista , S. Fauvaud , M. Fauvaud , M. Ferrais , M. Filipek , P. Fini , K. Fukui , B. Gährken , S. Geier , T. George , B. Goffin , J. Golonka , T. Goto , J. Grice , K. Guhl , K. Halíř , W. Hanna , M. Harman , A. Hashimoto , W. Hasubick , D. Higgins , M. Higuchi , T. Hirose , R. Hirsch , O. Hofschulz , T. Horaguchi , J. Horbowicz , M. Ida , B. Ignácz , M. Ishida , K. Isobe , E. Jehin , B. Joachimczyk , A. Jones , J. Juan , K. Kamiński , M. K. Kamińska , P. Kankiewicz , H. Kasebe , B. Kattentidt , D. -H. Kim , M. -J. Kim , K. Kitazaki , A. Klotz , M. Komraus , I. Konstanciak , R. Könyves - Tóth , K. Kouno , E. Kowald , J. Krajewski , G. Krannich , A. Kreutzer , A. Kryszczyńska , J. Kubánek , V. Kudak , F. Kugel , R. Kukita , P. Kulczak , D. Lazzaro , J. Licandro , F. Livet , P. Maley , N. Manago , J. Mánek , A. Manna , H. Matsushita , S. Meister , W. Mesquita , S. Messner , J. Michelet , J. Michimani , I. Mieczkowska , N. Morales , M. Motyliński , M. Murawiecka , J. Newman , V. Nikitin , M. Nishimura , J. Oey , D. Oszkiewicz , M. Owada , E. Pakštienė , M. Pawłowski , W. Pereira , V. Perig , J. Perła , F. Pilcher , E. Podlewska-Gaca , J. Polák , T. Polakis , M. Polińska , A. Popowicz , F. Richard , J. J. Rives , T. Rodrigues , Ł. Rogiński , E. Rondón , M. Rottenborn , R. Schäfer , C. Schnabel , O. Schreurs , A. Selva , M. Simon , B. Skiff , M. Skrutskie , J. Skrzypek , K. Sobkowiak , E. Sonbas , S. Sposetti , P. Stuart , K. Szyszka , K. Terakubo , W. Thomas , P. Trela , S. Uchiyama , M. Urbanik , G. Vaudescal , R. Venable , Ha. Watanabe , Hi. Watanabe , M. Winiarski , R. Wróblewski , H. Yamamura , M. Yamashita , H. Yoshihara , M. Zawilski , P. Zelený , M. Żejmo , K. Żukowski , S. Żywica

We present an updated set of near-Earth asteroids with a Yarkovsky-related semimajor axis drift detected from the orbital fit to the astrometry. We find 87 reliable detections after filtering for the signal-to-noise ratio of the Yarkovsky…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 Alessio Del Vigna , Laura Faggioli , Andrea Milani , Federica Spoto , Davide Farnocchia , Benoit Carry

We present low-resolution near-infrared spectra of discoveries from an all-sky proper motion search conducted using multi-epoch data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. Using the data from NEOWISE, along with the AllWISE catalog,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 Jennifer J. Greco , Adam C. Schneider , Michael C. Cushing , J. Davy Kirkpatrick , Adam J. Burgasser

Near-Earth asteroid (NEA) 1566 Icarus ($a=1.08$ au, $e=0.83$, $i=22.8^{\circ}$) made a close approach to Earth in June 2015 at 22 lunar distances (LD). Its detection during the 1968 approach (16 LD) was the first in the history of asteroid…

Our previous model (NEOMOD2) for the orbital and absolute magnitude distribution of Near Earth Objects (NEOs) was calibrated on the Catalina Sky Survey observations between 2013 and 2022. Here we extend NEOMOD2 to include visible albedo…

We have combined the NEOWISE and Sloan Digital Sky Survey data to study the albedos of 24,353 asteroids with candidate taxonomic classifications derived using Sloan photometry. We find a wide range of moderate to high albedos for candidate…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Mainzer , J. Masiero , T. Grav , J. Bauer , D. J. Tholen , R. S. McMillan , E. Wright , T. Spahr , R. M. Cutri , R. Walker , W. Mo , J. Watkins , E. Hand , C. Maleszewski

We respond to the critique by Watters et al. (2026) of the statistical analyses in Villarroel et al. (2025) and Bruehl & Villarroel (2025). We argue that the critique conflates object-level validation with ensemble-level statistical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-01 Beatriz Villarroel , Alina Streblyanska , Stephen Bruehl , Stefan Geier

Shanks et al. (2018) arXiv:1810.02595 make two claims that they argue bring the local measurement and early Universe prediction of H0 into agreement: A) they claim that Gaia DR2 parallax measurements show the geometric calibration of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-09 Adam G. Riess , Stefano Casertano , D'Arcy Kenworthy , Dan Scolnic , Lucas Macri

Increasing our knowledge of the orbits and compositions of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) is important for a better understanding of the evolution of the Solar System and of life. The detection of serendipitous NEO appearances among the millions…