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most citedCompositional distributions and evolutionary processes for the near-Earth object population: Results from the MIT-Hawaii Near-Earth Object Spectroscopic Survey (MITHNEOS

230 citations · 511 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

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…

astro-ph.EP2026

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…

astro-ph.EP2026

Shape, Orientation and Colors Combined approach for Asteroids (SOCCA)

K. O. Xenos, B. Carry, J. Peloton +3

Large photometric surveys provide sparse multi-band photometry for millions of Solar System objects, offering an opportunity to jointly constrain their physical and compositional p…

astro-ph.EP2026

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…

astro-ph.EP2026

Euclid: Asteroid rotation periods from the Euclid Ecliptic Survey

B. Y. Irureta-Goyena, B. Altieri, J. -P. Kneib +142

The Euclid Ecliptic Survey was conducted during the calibration phase of the mission, 23-31 December 2023, as a campaign to study Solar System objects. We used data from this surve…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 8 cited

NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Observations of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1)

Colin Orion Chandler, Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Mario Jurić +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-…

eess.SP2024

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…

astro-ph.EP2024

Hubble Asteroid Hunter III. Physical properties of newly found asteroids

Pablo García-Martín, 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…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 12 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 230 cited

Compositional distributions and evolutionary processes for the near-Earth object population: Results from the MIT-Hawaii Near-Earth Object Spectroscopic Survey (MITHNEOS

Binzel R. P., DeMeo F. E., Turtelboom E. V. +19

We report measured spectral properties for more than 1000 NEOs, representing>5% of the currently discovered population. Thermal flux detected below 2.5 μm allows us to make albedo…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 7 cited

Identification of asteroids using the Virtual Observatory: the WFCAM Transit Survey

M. Cortés-Contreras, F. M. Jiménez-Esteban, M. Mahlke +6

The nature and physical properties of asteroids, in particular those orbiting in the near-Earth space, are of scientific interest and practical importance. Exoplanet surveys can be…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 9 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 19 cited

Mining the Kilo-Degree Survey for solar system objects

M. Mahlke, H. Bouy, B. Altieri +7

The search for minor bodies in the solar system promises insights into its formation history. Wide imaging surveys offer the opportunity to serendipitously discover and identify th…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 95 cited

Hayabusa-2 Mission Target Asteroid 162173 Ryugu (1999 JU3): Searching for the Object's Spin-Axis Orientation

T. G. Müller, J. Ďurech, M. Ishiguro +27

The JAXA Hayabusa-2 mission was approved in 2010 and launched on December 3, 2014. The spacecraft will arrive at the near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu in 2018 where it will perform…

astro-ph.EP2016

The Gaia-FUN-SSO observation campaign of 99942 Apophis: A preliminary test for the network

D. Bancelin, W. Thuillot, A. Ivantsov +8

In order to test the coordination and evaluate the overall performance of the Gaia-FUN-SSO, an observation campaign on the Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (99 942) Apophis was condu…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 84 cited

New and updated convex shape models of asteroids based on optical data from a large collaboration network

J. Hanuš, J. Ďurech, D. A. Oszkiewicz +165

Asteroid modeling efforts in the last decade resulted in a comprehensive dataset of almost 400 convex shape models and their rotation states. This amount already provided a deep in…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 47 cited

Asteroid Models from Multiple Data Sources

J. Durech, B. Carry, M. Delbo +2

In the past decade, hundreds of asteroid shape models have been derived using the lightcurve inversion method. At the same time, a new framework of 3-D shape modeling based on the…