Asteroid Photometry

Abstract

Asteroid photometry has three major applications: providing clues about asteroid surface physical properties and compositions, facilitating photometric corrections, and helping design and plan ground-based and spacecraft observations. The most significant advances in asteroid photometry in the past decade were driven by spacecraft observations that collected spatially resolved imaging and spectroscopy data. In the mean time, laboratory measurements and theoretical developments are revealing controversies regarding the physical interpretations of models and model parameter values. We will review the new developments in asteroid photometry that have occurred over the past decade in the three complementary areas of observations, laboratory work, and theory. Finally we will summarize and discuss the implications of recent findings.

Accepted chapter for Asteroid IV Book

References in corpus (3)

• Near-Infrared Mapping and Physical Properties of the Dwarf-Planet Ceres
• Global Photometric Properties of Asteroid (4) Vesta Observed with Dawn Framing Camera
• The contamination of the surface of Vesta by impacts and the delivery of the dark material

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• Asteroid phase curves from ATLAS dual-band photometry
• Small Solar System Bodies as granular media
• Ground-based Characterization of Hayabusa2 Mission Target Asteroid 162173 Ryugu: Constraining Mineralogical Composition in Preparation for Spacecraft Operations
• Observational Constraints on Water Sublimation from 24 Themis and 1 Ceres
• (6478) Gault: Physical characterization of an active main-belt asteroid
• Dependence of Lightcurves on Phase Angle and Asteroid Shape
• Spectral clustering tools applied to Ceres in preparation for OSIRIS-REx color imaging of asteroid (101955) Bennu
• Spectrophotometric correction of Vesta observations performed by the VIR Imaging spectrometer onboard Dawn mission
• Possible sublimation and dust activity on primitive NEAs: Example of (162173) Ryugu