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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

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,…

astro-ph.EP2026

The Nysa family as the main source of unequilibrated LL ordinary chondrites

M. Marsset, P. Vernazza, M. Brož +16

Context. The origin of the petrologic diversity observed in ordinary chondrites (OCs), the most common meteorites on Earth, remains debated. Competing models invoke either depth-de…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

A dynamical dichotomy in large binary asteroids

K. Minker, B. Carry, F. Vachier +20

No less than 15% of large (diameter greater than 140 km) asteroids have satellites. The commonly accepted mechanism for their formation is post-impact reaccumulation. However, the…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 6 cited

On inertial forces (indirect terms) in problems with a central body

Aurélien Crida, Clément Baruteau, Philippine Griveaud +14

Gravitational systems in astrophysics often comprise a body -- the primary -- that far outweights the others, and which is taken as the centre of the reference frame. A fictitious…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

Orbits of very distant asteroid satellites

K. Minker, B. Carry, F. Vachier +36

The very wide binary asteroid (VWBA) population is a small subset of the population of known binary and multiple asteroids made of systems with very widely orbiting satellites and…

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

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…

astro-ph.EP2023

Speckle observations of the binary asteroid (22) Kalliope with C2PU/PISCO

E. Aristidi, B. Carry, K. Minker +13

We present new speckle measurements of the position of Linus, the satellite of the asteroid (22) Kalliope, obtained at the 1m C2PU-Epsilon telescope on the Plateau de Calern, Franc…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 12 cited

Deficit of primitive compositions in binary asteroids and pairs

Kate Minker, Benoît Carry

Context. Small binary asteroid systems and pairs are thought to form through fission induced by spin up via the Yarkovsky-O'Keefe-Radzievskii-Paddack (YORP) effect. This process is…