One more possibility of asteroid diameter determination from polarimetric data

Details One more possibility of asteroid diameter determination from polarimetric data One more possibility of asteroid diameter determination from polarimetric data

Feb 1988

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988kfnt....4...82k&link_type=abstract

Kinematika i Fizika Nebesnykh Tel (ISSN 0233-7665), vol. 4, Jan.-Feb. 1988, p. 82-84. In Russian.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Asteroids, Astrometry, Diameters, Polarimetry, Albedo, Minima, Regression Analysis

Scientific paper

It is pointed out that the albedo, and consequently, the diameter of an asteroid may be determined accurately enough by means of an empirical equation which contains the albedo and two characteristics of the polarization degree P dependence on phase angle alpha. The first characteristic is the minimum value of the function P(alpha), the second one is the location of the inversion point. The equation allows the diameters of asteroids observed only at alpha less than or equal to alpha(0) to be determined.

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