Phase Curves of Jovian Trojan Asteroids

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Feb 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010noao.prop..400f&link_type=abstract

NOAO Proposal ID #2010A-0400

Physics

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The provenance of the Jovian Trojan asteroids, found at the stable L4 and L5 Lagrange points of Jupiter's orbit, has long been a topic of debate. For decades most researchers believed that they formed in situ, but recent evidence, both theoretical and observational, suggests that the Trojans may have formed at greater heliocentric distances. The observational evidence is based primarily upon the similar spectral properties and albedos of large Trojans to those of cometary nuclei (e.g. Abell et al. 2005). The phase curve--the variation of an asteroid's light with phase angle--carries information about nature and texture of the surface. The two Trojan asteroids whose phase curves have been well studied to data appear to show no strong surge in brightness near zero phase angle, unlike most dark main belt asteroids. We propose to determine phase curves for five additional Trojan asteroids.

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