Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-09-18
New Astron. 7 (2002) 483-494
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Contact person cremonese@pd.astro.it. Accepted for pubblication in New Astronomy (2002). 1 figure in .eps format. Needs elsart
Scientific paper
10.1016/S1384-1076(02)00176-8
The Planck mission, originally devised for cosmological studies, offers the opportunity to observe Solar System objects at millimetric and submillimetric wavelengths. We concentrate in this paper on the asteroids of the Main Belt. We intend to estimate the number of asteroids that can can be detected during the mission and to evaluate the strength of their signal. We have rescaled the instrument sensitivities, calculated by the LFI and HFI teams for sources fixed in the sky, introducing some degradation factors to properly account for moving objects. In this way a detection threshold is derived for asteroidal detection that is related to the diameter of the asteroid and its geocentric distance. We have developed a numerical code that models the detection of asteroids in the LFI and HFI channels during the mission. This code perfoprms a detailed integration of the orbits of the asteroids in the timespan of the mission and identifies those bodies that fall in the beams of Planck and their signal stenght. According to our simulations, a total of 397 objects will be observed by Planck and an asteroidal body will be detected in some beam in 30% of the total sky scan--circles. A significant fraction (in the range from ~50 to 100 objects) of the 397 asteroids will be observed with a high S/N ratio. Flux measurements of a large sample of asteroids in the submillimeter and millimeter range are relevant since they allow to analyze the thermal emission and its relation to the surface and regolith properties. Furthermore, it will be possible to check on a wider base the two standard thermal models, based on a nonrotating or rapidly rotating sphere. Our method can also be used to separate Solar System sources from cosmological sources in the survey. This work is based on Planck LFI activities.
Burigana Carlo
Cremonese Gabriele
Mariş Mihai
Marzari Francesco
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