Statistical analysis of asteroid taxonomic signatures from magnitude phase function
- 1Graduate Institute of Astronomy, NCU, Taoyuan, Taiwan (if207if@gmail.com)
- 2Department of Earth Sciences, NTNU, Taipei, Taiwan (60744022s@ntnu.edu.tw )
According the H-G magnitude system ,this work using the known spectral-type asteroids (about three hundreds asteroids including MBAs and NEAs) found from literature, we derived the new G-value of two main taxonomic groups in both g and r filters (In g filter, C-type is 0.095±0.112, and S-type is 0.257±0.165. In r filter, C-type is 0.091±0.134, and S-type is 0.280±0.158). We then used these values to identify the unknown taxonomic near-Earth asteroids(NEAs) obtained by (ZTF) from June 2018 to May 2020. In total, more than one hundred NEAs had been classified into C- and S-complex. In addition, the investigation of size distribution in NEAs found that the C-complex asteroids are relatively larger than S-complex asteroids, probably due to observational bias (albedo).
How to cite: Lin, Z.-Y., Cheng, C.-C., Chang, C.-K., Tseng, W.-L., and Ip, W.-H.: Statistical analysis of asteroid taxonomic signatures from magnitude phase function , Europlanet Science Congress 2020, online, 21 Sep–9 Oct 2020, EPSC2020-994, https://doi.org/10.5194/epsc2020-994, 2020.