Publications (39)
Physical Properties of (2) Pallas
Benoit Carry, Christophe Dumas, Mikko Kaasalainen +8
We acquired and analyzed adaptive-optics imaging observations of asteroid (2) Pallas from Keck II and the Very Large Telescope taken during four Pallas oppositions between 2003 and…
Rubin-Euclid Derived Data Products: Initial Recommendations
Leanne P. Guy, Jean-Charles Cuillandre, Etienne Bachelet +117
This report is the result of a joint discussion between the Rubin and Euclid scientific communities. The work presented in this report was focused on designing and recommending an…
Spectral analysis of basaltic asteroids observed by the Gaia space mission
Dagmara Oszkiewicz, Hanna Klimczak, Benoit Carry +4
There is a great deal of scientific interest in characterizing the basaltic asteroids (spectrally classified as V-types), as they are the key to understanding planetesimal formatio…
Spectral analogues of Barbarian asteroids among CO and CV chondrites
Max Mahlke, Jolantha Eschrig, Benoit Carry +2
K- and L-type asteroids are considered to be the parent bodies of CV and CO chondrites. Spectral models of L-types invoke an enrichment in CAI with respect to the chondrites in the…
Spectral properties of near-Earth and Mars-crossing asteroids using Sloan photometry
Benoit Carry, Enrique Solano, Siegfried Eggl +1
The nature and origin of the asteroids orbiting in near-Earth space, including those on a potentially hazardous trajectory, is of both scientific interest and practical importance.…
Rotation, spectral type, and albedo of the potentially hazardous asteroid (153814) 2001 WN Prior to the 2028 June close approach
Jin Beniyama, Alexey V. Sergeyev, Konstantinos Odysseas Xenos +6
The potentially hazardous asteroid (153814) 2001 WN will pass inside the lunar distance on June 26, 2028, offering a rare opportunity to characterize a kilometer-scale near-Ear…
Unexpected D-type Interlopers in the Inner Main Belt
Francesca E. DeMeo, Richard P. Binzel, Benoit Carry +2
Very red featureless asteroids (spectroscopic D-types) are expected to have formed in the outer solar system far from the sun. They comprise the majority of asteroids in the Jupite…
The daily processing of asteroid observations by Gaia
Paolo Tanga, Francois Mignard, Aldo Dell Oro +15
The Gaia mission started its regular observing program in the summer of 2014, and since then it is regularly obtaining observations of asteroids. This paper draws the outline of th…
Asteroid shapes and thermal properties from combined optical and mid-infrared photometry inversion
Josef Durech, Marco Delbo, Benoit Carry +2
Optical lightcurves can be used for the shape and spin reconstruction of asteroids. Due to unknown albedo, these models are scale-free. When thermal infrared data are available, th…
Density of asteroids
Benoit Carry
A considerable amount of information regarding the processes that occurred during the accretion of the early planetesimals is still present among the small bodies of our solar syst…
Blind and robust reconstruction of adaptive optics point spread functions for asteroid deconvolution and moon detection
Anthony Berdeu, Férréol Soulez, Kate Minker +4
Initially designed to detect and characterize exoplanets, extreme adaptive optics systems (AO) open a new window on the solar system by resolving its small bodies. Nonetheless, des…
ViSiON: Visibility Service for Observing Nights
Benoit Carry, Jerome Berthier
Preparation of detailed night schedule prior to an observing run can be tedious, especially for solar system objects which coordinates are epoch-dependent. We aim at providing the…
Asteroid Taxonomy from Cluster Analysis of Spectrometry and Albedo
Max Mahlke, Benoit Carry, Pierre-Alexandre Mattei
The classification of the minor bodies of the Solar System based on observables has been continuously developed and iterated over the past 40 years. While prior iterations followed…
The remarkable surface homogeneity of the Dawn mission target (1) Ceres
Benoit Carry, Pierre Vernazza, Christophe Dumas +7
Dwarf-planet (1) Ceres is one of the two targets, along with (4) Vesta, that will be studied by the NASA Dawn spacecraft via imaging, visible and near-infrared spectroscopy, and ga…
Solar System Science with ESA Euclid
Benoit Carry
The ESA Euclid mission has been designed to map the geometry of the dark Universe. Scheduled for launch in 2020, it will conduct a six-years visible and NIR imaging and spectroscop…
Follow the wobble: Statistical methods to detect astrometric binary asteroids in Gaia FPR
Luana Liberato, Paolo Tanga, David Mary +7
In a previous article, we obtained the first-ever list of astrometric binary asteroid candidates. Some of these candidates have now been confirmed. In that previous work, however,…
Binary craters on Ceres and Vesta and implications for binary asteroids
Carianna Herrera, Benoit Carry, Anthony Lagain +1
Context. Airless planetary objects have their surfaces covered by craters, and these can be used to study the characteristics of asteroid populations. Planetary surfaces present bi…
Cryoscope: A Cryogenic Infrared Survey Telescope in Antarctica
Mansi M. Kasliwal, Nicholas Earley, Roger Smith +58
We present Cryoscope--a new 50 deg field-of-view, 1.2 m aperture, survey telescope to be located at Dome C, Antarctica. Cryoscope has an innovative optical-thermal d…
Physical and dynamical properties of the main belt triple asteroid (87) Sylvia
J. Berthier, Frédéric Vachier, Franck Marchis +2
We present the analysis of high angular resolution observations of the triple Asteroid (87) Sylvia collected with three 8-10 m class telescopes (Keck, VLT, Gemini North) and the Hu…
Olivine-dominated A-type asteroids in the Main Belt: Distribution, Abundance and Relation to Families
Francesca E. DeMeo, David Polishook, Benoit Carry +5
Differentiated asteroids are rare in the main asteroid belt despite evidence for ~100 distinct differentiated bodies in the meteorite record. We have sought to understand why so fe…
Evidence of a metal-rich surface for the asteroid (16) Psyche from interferometric observations in the thermal infrared
Alexis Matter, Marco Delbo, Benoit Carry +1
We describe the first determination of thermal properties and size of the M-type asteroid (16) Psyche from interferometric observations obtained with the Mid-Infrared Interferometr…
NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Observations of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1)
Colin Orion Chandler, Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Mario JuriÄ +305
We report on the observation and measurement of astrometry, photometry, morphology, and activityof the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, also designated C/2025 N1 (ATLAS) with the NSF-…
Near-Infrared Mapping and Physical Properties of the Dwarf-Planet Ceres
Benoit Carry, Christophe Dumas, Marcello Fulchignoni +5
We study the physical characteristics (shape, dimensions, spin axis direction, albedo maps, mineralogy) of the dwarf-planet Ceres based on high-angular resolution near-infrared obs…
Detecting the Yarkovsky effect among near-Earth asteroids from astrometric data
Alessio Del Vigna, Laura Faggioli, Andrea Milani +3
We present an updated set of near-Earth asteroids with a Yarkovsky-related semimajor axis drift detected from the orbital fit to the astrometry. We find 87 reliable detections afte…
Hubble Asteroid Hunter III. Physical properties of newly found asteroids
Pablo GarcÃa-MartÃn, Sandor Kruk, Marcel Popescu +5
Determining the size distribution of asteroids is key for understanding the collisional history and evolution of the inner Solar System. We aim at improving our knowledge on the si…
Solar System evolution from compositional mapping of the asteroid belt
Francesca DeMeo, Benoit Carry
Advances in the discovery and characterization of asteroids over the past decade have revealed an unanticipated underlying structure that points to a dramatic early history of the…
High-contrast observations of 136108 Haumea. A crystalline water-ice multiple system
Christophe Dumas, Benoit Carry, Daniel Hestroffer +1
Context. The trans-neptunian region of the Solar System is populated by a large variety of icy bodies showing great diversity in orbital behavior, size, surface color and compositi…
The Gaia Mission, Binary Stars and Exoplanets
Laurent Eyer, Lorenzo Rimoldini, Berry Holl +8
On the 19th of December 2013, the Gaia spacecraft was successfully launched by a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana and started its amazing journey to map and characterise one billion…
Taxonomy of 14042 asteroids from Gaia DR3 reflectance spectra
Fernando Tinaut-Ruano, Benoit Carry, Marjorie Galinier +2
Asteroid reflectance spectra provide key constraints on surface composition. Gaia DR3 enables the study of 60,518 asteroids through NUV to visible reflectance spectra. We aim to cl…
Binary asteroid candidates in Gaia DR3 astrometry
Luana Liberato, Paolo Tanga, David Mary +7
Asteroids with companions constitute an excellent sample for studying the collisional and dynamical evolution of minor planets. The currently known binary population were discovere…
The taxonomic distribution of asteroids from multi-filter all-sky photometric surveys
Francesca DeMeo, Benoit Carry
The distribution of asteroids across the Main Belt has been studied for decades to understand the compositional distribution and what that tells us about the formation and evolutio…
The debiased compositional distribution of MITHNEOS: Global match between the near-Earth and main-belt asteroid populations and excess of D-type Near-Earth Objects
Michaël Marsset, Francesca E. DeMeo, Brian Burt +10
We report 491 new near-infrared spectroscopic measurements of 420 near-Earth objects (NEOs) collected on the NASA InfraRed Telescope Facility (IRTF) as part of the MIT-Hawaii NEO S…
Origin of volatiles in the Main Belt
Olivier Mousis, Yann Alibert, Daniel Hestroffer +5
We propose a scenario for the formation of the Main Belt in which asteroids incorporated icy particles formed in the outer Solar Nebula. We calculate the composition of icy planete…
The ssos Pipeline: Identification of Solar System Objects in Astronomical Images
Max Mahlke, Enrique Solano, Hervé Bouy +3
Observatories and satellites around the globe produce tremendous amounts of imaging data to study many different astrophysical phenomena. The serendipitous observations of Solar Sy…
Characterisation of candidate members of (136108) Haumea's family
Colin Snodgrass, Benoit Carry, Christophe Dumas +1
Ragozzine & Brown [2007] presented a list of candidate members of the first collisional family to be found among the trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), the one associated with (136108…
A spectral comparison of (379) Huenna and its satellite
Francesca DeMeo, Benoit Carry, Franck Marchis +7
We present near-infrared spectral measurements of Themis family asteroid (379) Huenna (D~98 km) and its 6 km satellite using SpeX on the NASA IRTF. The companion was farther than 1…
Characterisation of candidate members of (136108) Haumea's family: II. Follow-up observations
Benoit Carry, Colin Snodgrass, Pedro Lacerda +2
From a dynamical analysis of the orbital elements of transneptunian objects (TNOs), Ragozzine & Brown reported a list of candidate members of the first collisional family found amo…
Unmasking (44) Nysa: Evidence for a trilobate structure
Kate Minker, Anthony Berdeu, Gianluca Li Causi +16
Context. (44) Nysa is one of the largest known E-type asteroids. Light curve inversion models have indicated that it may have an elongated shape commonly found in large binary syst…
The Massalia asteroid family as the origin of ordinary L chondrites
Michaël Marsset, Pierre Vernazza, Miroslav Brož +10
Studies of micrometeorites in mid-Ordovician limestones and Earth's impact craters indicate that our planet witnessed a massive infall of ordinary L chondrite material 466 million…