Bibcode
Marciniak, A.; Alí-Lagoa, V.; Müller, T. G.; Szakáts, R.; Molnár, L.; Pál, A.; Podlewska-Gaca, E.; Parley, N.; Antonini, P.; Barbotin, E.; Behrend, R.; Bernasconi, L.; Butkiewicz-Bąk, M.; Crippa, R.; Duffard, R.; Ditteon, R.; Feuerbach, M.; Fauvaud, S.; Garlitz, J.; Geier, S.; Goncalves, R.; Grice, J.; Grześkowiak, I.; Hirsch, R.; Horbowicz, J.; Kamiński, K.; Kamińska, M. K.; Kim, D.-H.; Kim, M.-J.; Konstanciak, I.; Kudak, V.; Kulczak, P.; Maestre, J. L.; Manzini, F.; Marks, S.; Monteiro, F.; Ogłoza, W.; Oszkiewicz, D.; Pilcher, F.; Perig, V.; Polakis, T.; Polińska, M.; Roy, R.; Sanabria, J. J.; Santana-Ros, T.; Skiff, B.; Skrzypek, J.; Sobkowiak, K.; Sonbas, E.; Thizy, O.; Trela, P.; Urakawa, S.; Żejmo, M.; Żukowski, K.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 625, id.A139, 40 pp.
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2019
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Context. Earlier work suggests that slowly rotating asteroids should
have higher thermal inertias than faster rotators because the heat wave
penetrates deeper into the subsurface. However, thermal inertias have
been determined mainly for fast rotators due to selection effects in the
available photometry used to obtain shape models required for
thermophysical modelling (TPM). Aims: Our aims are to mitigate
these selection effects by producing shape models of slow rotators, to
scale them and compute their thermal inertia with TPM, and to verify
whether thermal inertia increases with the rotation period.
Methods: To decrease the bias against slow rotators, we conducted a
photometric observing campaign of main-belt asteroids with periods
longer than 12 h, from multiple stations worldwide, adding in some cases
data from WISE and Kepler space telescopes. For spin and shape
reconstruction we used the lightcurve inversion method, and to derive
thermal inertias we applied a thermophysical model to fit available
infrared data from IRAS, AKARI, and WISE. Results: We present new
models of 11 slow rotators that provide a good fit to the thermal data.
In two cases, the TPM analysis showed a clear preference for one of the
two possible mirror solutions. We derived the diameters and albedos of
our targets in addition to their thermal inertias, which ranged between
3-3+33 and 45-30+60 J
m-2 s-1/2 K-1. Conclusions:
Together with our previous work, we have analysed 16 slow rotators from
our dense survey with sizes between 30 and 150 km. The current sample
thermal inertias vary widely, which does not confirm the earlier
suggestion that slower rotators have higher thermal inertias.
Full Table A.1 and photometric data from all individual nights are only
available at the CDS via anonymous ftp to http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr
(ftp://130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/625/A139
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