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NEOWISE Reactivation Mission Year One: Preliminary Asteroid Diameters and Albedos
C. R. Nugent, A. Mainzer, J. Masiero +7
We present preliminary diameters and albedos for 7,959 asteroids detected in the first year of the NEOWISE Reactivation mission. 201 are near-Earth asteroids (NEAs). 7,758 are Main…
The Euphrosyne family's contribution to the low albedo near-Earth asteroids
Joseph R. Masiero, V. Carruba, A. Mainzer +2
The Euphrosyne asteroid family is uniquely situated at high inclination in the outer Main Belt, bisected by the nu_6 secular resonance. This large, low albedo family may thus be an…
Characterizing Asteroids Multiply-Observed at Infrared Wavelengths
Seth C. Koren, Edward L. Wright, A. Mainzer
We report Markov chain Monte Carlo fits of the thermophysical model of Wright (2007) to the fluxes of 10 asteroids which have been observed by both WISE and NEOWISE. This model is…
Space-Based Thermal Infrared Studies of Asteroids
A. Mainzer, F. Usui, D. Trilling
Large-area surveys operating at mid-infrared wavelengths have proven to be a valuable means of discovering and characterizing minor planets. Through the use of radiometric models,…
NEOWISE: Observations of the Irregular Satellites of Jupiter and Saturn
Tommy Grav, James M. Bauer, Amy K. Mainzer +5
We present thermal model fits for 11 Jovian and 3 Saturnian irregular satellites based on measurements from the WISE/NEOWISE dataset. Our fits confirm spacecraft-measured diameters…
Survey Simulations of a New Near-Earth Asteroid Detection System
A. Mainzer, T. Grav, J. Bauer +10
We have carried out simulations to predict the performance of a new space-based telescopic survey operating at thermal infrared wavelengths that seeks to discover and characterize…