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20132024
most citedThe Ginger-shaped Asteroid 4179 Toutatis: New Observations from a Successful Flyby of Chang'e-2

112 citations · 254 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

astro-ph.EP2024

Probe the regolith characteristics of asteroids from 9-years infrared observations of WISE/NEOWISE: A case study of the Main-Belt Object (656) Beagle

Liang-Liang Yu

This work presents data processing, fitting procedure, modelling and analyzing of 9-years infrared light curves provided by the WISE/NEOWISE telescope, by which the regolith charac…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 9 cited

Active Asteroid 311P/PANSTARRS: Rotational Instability as the Origin of Multi-tails?

Bin Liu, Xiaodong Liu, Xiaoyu Jia +3

The active asteroid 311P is one of the two targets of a planned Chinese asteroid exploration mission Tianwen-2. During 2013, 311P experienced several mass-loss events and exhibited…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 4 cited

Mid-IR Observations of IRAS, AKARI, WISE/NEOWISE and Subaru for Large Icy Asteroid (704) Interamnia: a New Perspective of Regolith Properties and Water Ice Fraction

Haoxuan Jiang, Jianghui Ji, Liangliang Yu +3

(704) Interamnia is one of the largest asteroids that locates in the outer main-belt region, which may contain a large amount of water ice underneath its surface. We observe this a…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 10 cited

Determination of size, albedo and thermal inertia of 10 Vesta family asteroids with WISE/NEOWISE observations

Haoxuan Jiang, Jianghui Ji, Liangliang Yu

In this work, we investigate the size, thermal inertia, surface roughness and geometric albedo of 10 Vesta family asteroids by using the Advanced Thermophysical Model (ATPM), based…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 14 cited

Low activity main belt comet 133P/Elst-Pizarro: New constraints on its Albedo, Temperature and Active Mechanism from a thermophysical perspective

Liang Liang Yu, Chih-Hao Hsia, Wing-Huen Ip

133P/Elst-Pizarro is the firstly recognized main-belt comet, but we still know little about its nucleus. Firstly we use mid-infrared data of Spitzer-MIPS, Spitzer-IRS and WISE to e…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 6 cited

Revisiting Advanced Thermal Physical Model: New Perspectives on Thermophysical Characteristics of (341843) 2008 EV5 from Four-bands WISE Data with Sunlight-Reflection Model

Haoxuan Jiang, Liangliang Yu, Jianghui Ji

In this paper, we investigate thermophysical characteristics of near-Earth asteroid (341843) 2008 EV5, based on our improved Advanced Thermal Physical Model (ATPM) by considering t…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 18 cited

What mechanisms dominate the activity of Geminid Parent (3200) Phaethon?

LiangLiang Yu, Wing-Huen Ip, Tilman Spohn

A long-term sublimation model to explain how Phaethon could provide the Geminid stream is proposed. We find that it would take Myr or more for Phaethon to lose all of its i…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 1 cited

Investigation of Thermal Inertia and Surface Properties for Near-Earth Asteroid (162173) 1999 JU3

Liangliang Yu, Jianghui Ji, Su Wang

In order to obtain the substantial information about the surface physics and thermal property of the target asteroid (162173) 1999 JU3, which will be visited by Hayabusa 2 in a sam…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 15 cited

Thermophysical characteristics of the large main-belt asteroid (349) Dembowska

LiangLiang Yu, Bin Yang, Jianghui Ji +1

(349) Dembowska, a large, bright main-belt asteroid, has a fast rotation and oblique spin axis. It may have experienced partial melting and differentiation. We constrain Dembowska'…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 10 cited

Surface thermophysical properties investigation of the potentially hazardous asteroid (99942) Apophis

LiangLiang Yu, Jianghui Ji, Wing-Huen Ip

In this work, we investigate the surface thermophysical properties (thermal emissivity, thermal inertia, roughness fraction and geometric albedo) of asteroid (99942) Apophis, using…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 1 cited

Thermophysical Characteristics of OSIRIS-REx Target Asteroid (101955) Bennu

LiangLiang Yu, Jianghui Ji

In this work, we investigate the thermophysical properties, including thermal inertia, roughness fraction and surface grain size of OSIRIS-REx target asteroid (101955) Bennu by usi…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 10 cited

Chang'e-2 spacecraft observations of asteroid 4179 Toutatis

Jianghui Ji, Yun Jiang, Yuhui Zhao +2

On 13 December 2012, Chang'e-2 completed a successful flyby of the near-Earth asteroid 4179 Toutatis at a closest distance of 770 meters from the asteroid's surface. The observatio…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 20 cited

Surface Thermophysical Properties determination of OSIRIS-REx target asteroid (101955) Bennu

LiangLiang Yu, Jianghui Ji

In this work, we investigate the thermophysical properties of OSIRIS-REx target asteroid (101955) Bennu (hereafter, Bennu), where thermal inertia plays an important role in underst…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 24 cited

Shape, Thermal and Surface Properties determination of a Candidate Spacecraft Target Asteroid (175706) 1996 FG3

LiangLiang Yu, Jianghui Ji, Su Wang

In this paper, a 3D convex shape model of (175706) 1996 FG3, which consists of 2040 triangle facets and 1022 vertices, is derived from the known lightcurves. The best-fit orientati…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 112 cited

The Ginger-shaped Asteroid 4179 Toutatis: New Observations from a Successful Flyby of Chang'e-2

Jiangchuan Huang, Jianghui Ji, Peijian Ye +26

On 13 December 2012, Chang'e-2 conducted a successful flyby of the near-Earth asteroid 4179 Toutatis at a closest distance of 770 120 meters from the asteroid's surface. The…