Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-02-25
Astron.J.124:1776,2002
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
23 pages, color figures, submitted to AJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/341950
We positionally correlate asteroids from existing catalogs with a sample of $\about$18,000 asteroids detected by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS, Ivezi\'{c} {\em et al.} 2001). We find 2641 unique matches, which represent the largest sample of asteroids with both accurate multi-color photometry and known orbital parameters. The matched objects are predominantly bright, and demonstrate that the SDSS photometric pipeline recovers \about90% of the known asteroids in the observed region. For the recovered asteroids we find a large offset (\about 0.4 mag) between Johnson V magnitudes derived from SDSS photometry and the predicted catalog-based visual magnitudes. This offset varies with the asteroid color from 0.34 mag for blue asteroids to 0.44 mag for red asteroids, and is probably caused by the use of unfiltered CCD observations in the majority of recent asteroid surveys. This systematic photometric error leads to an overestimate of the number of asteroids brighter than a given absolute magnitude limit by a factor of \about 1.7. The distribution of the matched asteroids in orbital parameter space indicates strong color segregation. We confirm that some families are dominated by a single asteroid type (e.g. the Koronis family by red asteroids and the Themis family by blue asteroids), while others appear to be a mixture of blue and red objects (e.g. the Nysa/Polana family). Asteroids with the bluest \iz colors, which can be associated with the Vesta family, show particularly striking localization in orbital parameter space.
Ivezic Zeljko
Juric Mario
Lupton Robert H.
Quinn Terry
Tabachnik Serge
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