Size Distribution of Faint Jovian L4-Trojan Asteroids

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May 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003dps....35.3409y&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #35, #34.09; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 35, p.977

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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We detected 51 Jovian Trojan asteroids in the L4 Lagrangian swarm in a wide-field survey observation near the ecliptic with the 8.2m Subaru telescope. The survey area is about 3 deg2 and located ˜ 30 deg ahead from the L4 point. The size range of the detected Trojans is 0.8 < D(km) < 13.7 in diameter (D). We noticed the change of the slope for the cumulative size distribution around D ˜ 5km. We also briefly estimate a total population number of the Trojans with D > 1km, compare the size distribution for our Trojans with that for small main-belt asteroids, and discuss a possible interrelation between Trojans and short-period comets in terms of the size distribution slope.

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