Asteroid shapes and pole orientations from visual and infrared photometry

Details Asteroid shapes and pole orientations from visual and infrared photometry Asteroid shapes and pole orientations from visual and infrared photometry

Aug 1988

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988plas.rept..125t&link_type=abstract

In NASA, Washington, Reports of Planetary Astronomy, p 125-126 (SEE N89-16624 08-89)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Asteroids, Charon, Eclipses, Light Curve, Mapping, Photometry, Pluto (Planet), Pluto Atmosphere, Albedo, Mathematical Models, Shapes, Spectrum Analysis, Telescopes, Thermal Emission

Scientific paper

The aim was to obtain visual and infrared lightcurves of Pluto-Charon mutual eclipse event lightcurves and to analyze them to derive models of the Pluto-Charon system, including separations, relative sizes, some orbital parameters, system density, and an albedo map of the hemisphere of Pluto facing Charon. Researchers obtained observations of Pluto-Charon mutual events with the Palomar 1.5 and 5-meter, Kitt Peak 1.3-meter, and NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) 3-meter telescope. IRAS survey observations of Pluto were combined with the results of eclipse models to show that the thermal flux observed by IRAS cannot be explained using the standard thermal model for atmospherless solar system bodies but can be explained if Pluto behaves as an isothermal body, e.g., as would be the case if it had a thermally significant atmosphere (Tedesco et al., 1987). A water frost spectrum of Charon was obtained (Buie et al., 1987) and IR lightcurves of two asteroids were used to demonstrate that their visual lightcurves were due primarily to their irregular shapes (Lebofsky et al., 1988.

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