Context. Near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) that may evolve into impactors deserve detailed threat assessment studies. Early physical characterization of a would-be...
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PublicaciónDiscovery and physical characterization as the first response to a potential asteroid collision: The case of 2023 DZ<SUB>2</SUB>
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PublicaciónDiscovery of the Bright Trans-Neptunian Object 2000 EB173
We describe the discovery circumstances and photometric properties of 2000 EB173, now one of the brightest trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) with opposition...
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PublicaciónDisk-resolved photometric modeling and properties of asteroid (101955) Bennu
OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) is a NASA mission to return a sample of asteroid (101955)...
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PublicaciónDisrupted Asteroid P/2016 G1. II. Follow-up Observations from the Hubble Space Telescope
After the early observations of the disrupted asteroid P/2016 G1 with the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) and modeling of the dust ejecta, we have...
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PublicaciónDistant trans-Neptunian object candidates from NASA's TESS mission scrutinized: fainter than predicted or false positives?
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is performing a homogeneous survey of the sky from space in search of transiting exoplanets. The collected...
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PublicaciónDistribution and spectrophotometric classification of basaltic asteroids
We aim to determine the distribution of basaltic asteroids (classified as V-types) based on the spectrophotometric data reported in the MOVIS-C catalogue. A...
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PublicaciónDozens of virtual impactor orbits eliminated by the EURONEAR VIMP DECam data mining project
Context. Massive data mining of image archives observed with large etendue facilities represents a great opportunity for orbital amelioration of poorly known...
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PublicaciónDust environment of active asteroids P/2019 A4 (PANSTARRS) and P/2021 A5 (PANSTARRS)
We report on the characterization of the dust activity and dynamical evolution of two faint active asteroids, P/2019 A4, and P/2021 A5, observed with the 10.4 m...
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PublicaciónDust Loss from Activated Asteroid P/2015 X6
We present observations and dust tail models of activated asteroid P/2015 X6 from deep imaging data acquired at the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) from...