Bibcode
Dotto, Elisabetta; Fornasier, S.; Barucci, M.; Hainaut, O.; Boehnhardt, H.; Licandro, J.; Marzari, F.; De Bergh, C.; De Luise, F.
Referencia bibliográfica
American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #38, #59.11; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 38, p.595
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2006
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Descripción
On 2002 we started an observational campaign devoted to the study of the
surface composition of Jupiter Trojans. In particular we focused on the
study of members of dynamical families: we obtained visible spectra of
80 objects belonging to 10 different families and for 24 of them we
obtained also near-infrared spectra.
All the investigated bodies have featureless spectra: in particular, no
signatures of water ice have been found on the spectra of these
primordial bodies. L4 and L5 objects seem to have similar spectral
behaviours and no evidence of a possible color-dimension trend has been
found.
Tentative models of the surface composition, based on the Hapke theory,
have been obtained.