Astrometric Research of Asteroidal Satellites

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Sep 2002

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American Astronomical Society, DPS Meeting #34, #14.13; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 34, p.861

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Optics

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Several observational methods have been applied in order to detect asteroidal satellites. Some of them were rather successful, such as the stellar occultations and mutual eclipse methods. Recently other techniques such as the space imaging, the adaptive optics and the radar imaging inferred a great improvement in the search for these objects. However several limitations appear in the type of data that each of them allow us to access. We propose to apply an astrometric method in order as well to detect new asteroidal satellites as to get complementary data of some already detected objects (mainly their orbital period). This method is founded on the search of the reflex effect of the primary object due to the orbital motion of a possible satellite. Such an astrometric signature, already searched by Monet & Monet (1998), may reach several tens of MAS. Only a spectral analysis could then detect this signal under good conditions of signal/noise ratio and thanks to high quality astrometric measurements and coverage by different sites of observation. We have applied such a method for several asteroids. A preliminary result is obtained thanks to 377 CCD observations of 146 Lucina made at the Haute-Provence Observatory in South of France. A periodical signal appears in this analysis, leading to data compatible with a first detection of a probable satellite made previously (Arlot et al. 1985) by the occultation method.

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