Bibcode
Vaduvescu, O.; Macias, A. Aznar; Tudor, V.; Predatu, M.; Galád, A.; Gajdoš, Š.; Világi, J.; Stevance, H. F.; Errmann, R.; Unda-Sanzana, E.; Char, F.; Peixinho, N.; Popescu, M.; Sonka, A.; Cornea, R.; Suciu, O.; Toma, R.; Santos-Sanz, P.; Sota, A.; Licandro, J.; Serra-Ricart, M.; Morate, D.; Mocnik, T.; Alfaro, M. Diaz; Lopez-Martinez, F.; McCormac, J.; Humphries, N.
Bibliographical reference
Earth, Moon, and Planets, Volume 120, Issue 2, pp.41-100
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2017
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Description
This data paper presents lightcurves of 101 near Earth asteroids (NEAs)
observed mostly between 2014 and 2017 as part of the EURONEAR
photometric survey using 11 telescopes with diameters between 0.4 and
4.2 m located in Spain, Chile, Slovakia and Romania. Most targets had no
published data at the time of observing, but some objects were observed
in the same period mainly by B. Warner, allowing us to confirm or
improve the existing results. To plan the runs and select the targets,
we developed the public Long Planning tool in PHP. For preliminary data
reduction and rapid follow-up planning we developed the LiDAS pipeline
in Python and IRAF. For final data reduction, flux calibration, night
linkage and Fourier fitting, we used mainly MPO Canopus. Periods of 18
targets are presented for the first time, and we could solve or
constrain rotation for 16 of them. We secured periods for 45 targets
(U˜ 3), found candidate periods for other 16 targets (U˜ 2),
and we propose tentative periods for other 32 targets (U˜ 1). We
observed 7 known or candidate binary NEAs, fiting 3 of them (2102
Tantalus, 5143 Heracles and 68348). We observed 8 known or candidate
tumbling NEAs, deriving primary periods for 3 objects (9400, 242708 and
470510). We evidenced rapid oscillations (few minutes) and could fit
fast tentative periods TP2 for 5 large newly suggested tumbling or
binary candidates (27346, 112985, 285625, 377732, 408980), probably
discovering at least one new binary NEA (2011 WO41). We resolved periods
of 4 special objects which include two proposed space mission targets
(163249 and 101955 Bennu), one very fast rotator NEA discovered by
EURONEAR (2014 NL52) and the "Halloween asteroid" (2015 TB145). Using
Mercator in simultaneous 3 band MAIA imaging, we could evidence for the
first time clear variation in the color lightcurves of 10 NEAs. The
periods derived from the g- r color lightcurves are found to match
individual band period fits for 4 NEAs (27346, 86067, 112985 and
275976).
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