Multi-wavelength phase curves of minor bodies
- 1Instituto Universitario de Física Aplicada a las Ciencias y las Tecnologías, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
- 2Observatório Nacional, COAA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (alvaro.alvarez@ua.es)
- 3Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía/CSIC, Granada, Spain
- 4Departamento de Fisica, Ingeniería de Sistemas y Teoría de la Señal, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
- 5Institut de Ciències del Cosmos (ICCUB), Universitat de Barcelona (IEEC-UB), Martí Franquès 1, E08028 Barcelona, Spain
The brightness of minor bodies depends, among other things, on their phase curves. Furthermore, the absolute magnitude, of a minor body is obtained from these curves, requiring observations at different phase angles, thus being impossible to obtain in a single observing night. Large photometric surveys help due to serendipitous observations of minor bodies in different epochs and phase angles.
Multiple wavelength phase curves have not been thoroughly explored yet, in particular, the possibility of obtaining photo-spectra (a very low resolving-power spectrum) at zero phase angle, i.e., not affected by phase coloring. In this presentation, we show preliminary results of multi-wavelength phase curves for over a thousand objects obtained using data from the SLOAN moving object catalog and discuss the statistical properties of the sample.
How to cite: Alvarez-Candal, A., Campo Bagatin, A., Benavidez, P., and Santana-Ros, T.: Multi-wavelength phase curves of minor bodies, Europlanet Science Congress 2020, online, 21 Sep–9 Oct 2020, EPSC2020-616, https://doi.org/10.5194/epsc2020-616, 2020.
