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11/11/2024, 14:00
Welcome and introduction to the workshop
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Karri Muinonen (Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland)11/11/2024, 14:15
We consider scattering and absorption of light in planetary regoliths composed of sparsely or densely packed nonspherical particles. For the particles, we incorporate sizes and refractive indices and generate sample regolith geometries using varying packing algorithms for particles and their clusters. To ensure computational eUiciency, we make use of average elementary scattering and...
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Antti Penttilä (Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland), Karri Muinonen (Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland)11/11/2024, 14:40
The photometric observations of an asteroid can be used to derive the reduced magnitudes at different phase angles, V(α). A photometric function can be used to fit the magnitudes at different phase angles and to predict the behavior into the exact backscattering geometry at V(0), giving the absolute magnitude H of the object. In 2012 IAU adopted the H,G1,G2 photometric function which is an...
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Benoit Carry (Lagrange, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur)11/11/2024, 15:05
The absolute magnitude H of asteroids is a fundamental property.
It is a proxy to diameter, it is required to predict apparent magnitude, and it is the only way to measure colors whenever filters are not observed (near-)simultaneously.Major ephemerides computation centers like the Minor Planet Center (MPC), the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the Asteroid Dynamical Site (AstDyS), and...
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Max Mahlke (Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale)11/11/2024, 15:30
Asteroid phase curves provide insights into their surface properties. In particular, the surge of brightness towards low phase angles (opposition effect) and the change in brightness with change in phase angle (photometric slope) are function of the surface composition and particle properties. This dependence opens up phase curves to taxonomic classification of asteroids, a process that has...
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Marco Micheli (ESA PDO NEO Coordination Centre), Francisco Ocaña (ESA PDO / NEOCC)11/11/2024, 16:20
ESA's Planetary Defence Office has traditionally focused most of its observational activities to astrometry, in order to provide high-precision measurements for the orbit determination and impact monitoring processes that form a significant component of our activities.
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Although most of our observations are still designed to optimize the astrometric output, during the last year we have... -
Petr Pravec (Astronomical Institute AS CR, Ondřejov, Czech Republic)11/11/2024, 16:45
We run a long-term project of time-resolved (lightcurve) photometric observations of near-Earth and main-belt asteroids. While our primary scientific interest is to determine other physical parameters of the studied objects (e.g., their spin rates and states, or binary nature), we also, as a by-product, obtain estimates of their absolute magnitudes. We run most of the observations at the...
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Milagros Colazo (Institute Astronomical Observatory - Adam Mickiewicz University)11/11/2024, 17:10
Nowadays, we are experiencing a revolution in astronomical surveys. Thanks to ground-based and orbiting telescopes, millions of observations of asteroids in various photometric filters are available. The main objective of our project is to develop tools for reading, processing, and analyzing large volumes of data. We’ve successfully determined phase curves for thousands of asteroids in orange...
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Peter Vereš (Minor Planet Center, Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)12/11/2024, 09:00
The Minor Planet Center (MPC) collects astrometric and photometric data on minor planets, with its catalog currently containing over 450 million data points for nearly 1.4 million objects. Photometric measurements are submitted in various bands and converted to the Johnson-Cousins V-band using band-specific conversion constants. The absolute magnitude H, a proxy for object size, is calculated...
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Tobias Hoffmann (European Space Agency)12/11/2024, 09:25
Most Potentially Hazardous and Near-Earth Objects are not observed by specific
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photometric follow-up telescopes. The only estimate on their physical parameters is
therefore made based on the discovery observations and their follow-up submitted to the
MPC. Those observations usually only include low-accuracy photometry.
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Marco Fenucci (ESA NEOCC/PDO)12/11/2024, 09:50
The NEOCC Aegis Orbit Determination and Impact Monitoring system currently uses the H-G model by Bowell et al. 1989 to determine the absolute magnitude H from photometry data. Typically, it is not possible to determine both the absolute magnitude H and the slope parameter G, therefore G is often fixed to a nominal value of 0.15. However, several studies have shown that the slope parameter may...
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Thomas Müller (MPE)12/11/2024, 11:00
Asteroids reflect only a small fraction of solar radiation, with the majority being emitted at thermal infrared (IR) wavelengths. This high infrared-to-visible flux ratio is especially advantageous for observing near-Earth objects (NEOs), which are often viewed at large phase angles and in close proximity to the Sun. Visible observations are hindered by straylight and rotational variations of...
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Marco Delbo (Observatoire de la côte d'Azur)12/11/2024, 11:25
The radiometric method has proven highly effective in determining the sizes and albedo of asteroids and near-Earth objects (NEOs). This technique involves measuring the heat flux from these objects in the thermal infrared using telescopes, and modeling these observations as a function of size and other physical parameters. The values of these parameters are constrained by achieving the best...
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Philippe Bendjoya (Université de la côte d'Azur, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, CNRS UMR 7293, Laboratoire Lagrange, France)12/11/2024, 11:50
Polarimetric observations of NEOs are important for a number of reasons:
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• Determination of the geometric albedo and hence possible derivation of diameter
• Determination of some surface regolith properties
• For taxonomic classification purposes
• Because it is useful to identify special classes of objects having anomalous compositions
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Yoonyoung Kim (UCLA)12/11/2024, 13:15
The WISE/NEOWISE mission detected ~3000 near-Earth objects (NEOs) over the course its survey from late 2009 to July 2024. From these data, it is possible to obtain measurements of their physical properties, including effective spherical diameter and visible geometric albedo. Roughly 2000 objects in the sample were detected by the automated moving object pipeline, enabling a robust estimate of...
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Joseph Masiero (Caltech/IPAC)12/11/2024, 13:40
The Near Earth Object Surveyor mission will survey the sky at infrared wavelengths in order to detect and discover ~100,000 NEOs, with sizes down to 25 m. The mission survey cadence is designed to provide sufficient self-followup to constrain the orbits and sizes of all detected NEOs. However, additional characterization of physical properties such as albedo and spectral taxonomy will...
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Luca Conversi (European Space Agency)12/11/2024, 14:05
Most current and planned NEO surveys are ground-based and carried out in the visible wavelength range. However, this approach has some limitations, such as (1) weather dependency, (2) that only a portion of the night sky is visible from any given location on Earth, (3) NEOs are difficult to detect at low galactic latitudes and (4) that visible-light surveys can only determine the motion and...
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Eric M. MacLennan (University of Helsinki)12/11/2024, 14:50
The thermal emission from an asteroid is a consequence of its surface temperatures, and the object’s size can be directly estimated from observations in the infrared. Accurately estimating the surface temperature distribution, which depends on several factors, can improve the precision of these size measurements. Key factors include the asteroid’s shape, spin, and thermophysical properties...
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31. Characterizing Small Recently Discovered NEOs: Diameter, Albedo, and Color Measurements (REMOTE)Andy Lopez-Oquendo (NASA Goddard)12/11/2024, 15:15
Rapidly estimating recently discovered hazardous asteroids' physical properties, such as rotation rate, surface composition, size, and albedo, provides a suitable practice for improving planetary defense techniques by acquiring these measurements hours or days after their discoveries. In this talk, we will present simultaneous optical and mid-infrared observations of recently discovered...
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Jin Beniyama (Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur)12/11/2024, 15:40
The Institute of Astronomy, School of Science, University of Tokyo, is promoting the TAO (The University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory) project to construct a 6.5-m telescope at an altitude of 5,640 m in Atacama, Chile. This will be the highest astronomical observatory on Earth, providing exceptionally clear skies for infrared observations at wavelengths up to 38 μm. Scientific observations are...
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Irina Belskaya (Institute of Astronomy, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Sumska Str. 35, Kharkiv 61022, Ukraine)12/11/2024, 16:50
Polarimetry is an effective tool for remote sensing of asteroid surfaces, mainly for assessing their albedo and surface texture, and searching for surface peculiarities. The main advantage of the polarimetric method of albedo determination is that albedo can be derived directly from polarimetric measurements using simple empirical relationships between polarimetric parameters and albedos....
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Galin Biserov Borisov (Institute of Astronomy and National Astronomical Observatory)12/11/2024, 17:15
The Two-Channel-Focal-Reducer Rozhen (FoReRo2) was delivered to the Bulgarian National Astronomical Observatory (BNAO) Rozhen based on a contract between the Max-Planck Institute for Solar System Research and the Institute of Astronomy and National Astronomical Observatory (IA and NAO) in 2004. Since then, the FoReRo2 has been used at the f/8 Ritchey-Chrétien focus of the 2m...
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Zuri Gray13/11/2024, 09:00
On September 26, 2022, the NASA DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft
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struck Dimorphos, the moonlet of Didymos, to test near-Earth object deflection via impact for planetary defence [1]. As well as causing a change in Dimorphos’ orbital period [2], the impact caused a massive dust cloud to be ejected from the surface, e.g. [3,4]. By studying the characteristics and behaviour of... -
Maxime Devogele (ESA NEOCC)13/11/2024, 09:25
The degree of linear polarization of sunlight scattered by an asteroid contains valuable information for rapid characterization of the surface properties of Near-Earth objects (NEOs). In the case of atmosphereless bodies the state of linear polarization varies as a function of the phase angle (α) and is described using the so-called Pr parameter.
The properties of the phase-polarization...
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Elena Selmi13/11/2024, 09:50
Near Earth Objects, with their perihelia < 1.3 AU, represent both a potential hazard and a valuable asset for the foreseeable in-space resource utilization, and are hence of great interest to the scientific community. Their physical parameters, such as diameter, albedo and thermal inertia, can be constrained by a number of techniques, with different types of input requirements and levels of...
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Estela Fernández-Valenzuela (Florida Space Institute, UCF)13/11/2024, 10:35
Polarization observations are a key tool for swiftly determining the size of a NEO, and consequently, their potential threat to Earth. The degree of linear polarization is inversely proportional to the albedo of the scattering surface of an asteroid. This relation is better constrained at high phase angles at which NEOs are usually observed and where polarization is more significant. This...
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Joseph Masiero (Caltech/IPAC)13/11/2024, 11:00
The polarization of light reflected by asteroids can be used to constrain the albedo of the asteroid's surface, and probe mineralogical surface properties such as grain size and index of refraction. Depending on the specific mineral components of the body these surface properties are expected to change with wavelength, and so observations of the polarization beyond the visible provide...
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Damya Souami13/11/2024, 13:00
The powerful method of stellar occultations is an unbeatable technique uniquely approaching, in some aspects, the performances of planetary space missions. It allows km-level accuracies on the determination of shapes and sizes of objects, and down to a couple of hundred meters for sum-km sized NEAs.
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Furthermore, it allows to derive, from ground using small aperture telescopes, asteroid... -
Julia De León (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain; (2) Departamento de Astrofísica, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain)13/11/2024, 13:25
Determining the size of an asteroid is scientifcally interesting, but also particularly relevant in the case of those objects that are considered as potential impactors: together with the distance to Earth, is one of the two criteria used to classify an asteroid as Potentially Hazardous. There are several ways to compute this physical property, some of them based on the acquisition of...
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Dora Föhring (ESA Near-Earth Coordination Center), Dr Ernesto Doelling (ESA)13/11/2024, 13:50
The European Space Agency’s Flyeye telescopes will play a crucial role in global efforts to detect and track near-Earth objects (NEOs). Inspired by the compound vision of a fly, the unique design of Flyeye-1 divides its field of view into 16 subfields, enabling the telescope to scan a wide area of the sky every night.
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This talk will explore the design and development of the Flyeye-1, focusing... -
Elisabeth Petrescu (Space Sciences, Technologies & Astrophysics Research (STAR) Institute University of Liège Allée du 6 Août 19, 4000 Liège, Belgium)13/11/2024, 14:15
Photometric observations of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) using the TRAPPIST telescopes are regularly performed notably to support shape modeling using radar data as well as an effort to calibrate the relation between the albedo and the polarization displayed by NEAs. These two methods allow to obtain accurate size determination for these objects.
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Questions:
- What can we do to incites observer to provide better photometric observations when performing astrometry?
- Should the MPC and other services switch to other models than H, G?
- Is G=0.15 the best assumption?
- How to provide uncertainties on H?
- Should we switch to another band?
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