Detection of the YORP Effect in Asteroid (3103) Eger

Details Detection of the YORP Effect in Asteroid (3103) Eger Detection of the YORP Effect in Asteroid (3103) Eger

Sep 2009

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American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #41, #56.04

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The rotation state of small bodies of the Solar System is affected by the thermal Yarkovsky-O'Keefe-Radzievski-Paddack (YORP) torque. The directly observable consequence of YORP is the secular change of the asteroid's rotational period in time. We carried out new photometric measurements of asteroid (3103) Eger during its suitable apparitions in 2001-2009. We also used archived data going back to 1987. Using all available photometry covering more than twenty years, we were able to detect a tiny deviation from the constant-period rotation. This deviation caused an observable shift between the observed lightcurves and those predicted by the best constant-period model. We used the lightcurve inversion method to derive a shape/spin solution that fitted the data at best. We assumed that the rotation rate evolved linearly in time and derived the acceleration of Eger's rotation rate dω/dt = (9 +/- 6) x 10-9 rad/d2 (maximum estimated uncertainty). The accelerating model provides a significantly better fit than the constant-period model. The value of dω/dt derived from observations is in agreement with the theoretical value computed numerically from the lightcurve inversion shape model and its spin axis orientation. After the three asteroids for which the YORP effect has already been detected (1862 Apollo, 54509 YORP, and 1620 Geographos), Eger is the fourth one.

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