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20072023
most citedHayabusa-2 Mission Target Asteroid 162173 Ryugu (1999 JU3): Searching for the Object's Spin-Axis Orientation

95 citations · 229 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

astro-ph.EP2023★ 1 cited

Photometry of the Didymos system across the DART impact apparition

Nicholas Moskovitz, Cristina Thomas, Petr Pravec +78

On 26 September 2022, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft impacted Dimorphos, the satellite of binary near-Earth asteroid (65803) Didymos. This demonstrated the…

astro-ph.EP2021

FOSSIL: I. The Spin Rate Limit of Jupiter Trojans

Chan-Kao Chang, Ying-Tung Chen, Wesley C. Fraser +25

Rotation periods of 53 small (diameters km) Jupiter Trojans (JTs) were derived using the high-cadence light curves obtained by the FOSSIL phase I survey, a Subaru/Hype…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 11 cited

Spin Change of Asteroid 2012 TC4 probably by Radiation Torques

Hee-Jae Lee, Josef Ďurech, David Vokrouhlický +9

Asteroid 2012 TC4 is a small (10 m) near-Earth object that was observed during its Earth close approaches in 2012 and 2017. Earlier analyses of light curves revealed its exci…

astro-ph.IM2020

The case for a multi-channel polarization sensitive LIDAR for investigation of insolation-driven ices and atmospheres

Adrian J. Brown, Gorden Videen, Evgenij Zubko +20

All LIDAR instruments are not the same, and advancement of LIDAR technology requires an ongoing interest and demand from the community to foster further development of the required…

astro-ph.EP2019

The Geometric Albedo of (4179) Toutatis Estimated from KMTNet DEEP-South Observations

Yoonsoo P. Bach, Masateru Ishiguro, Sunho Jin +6

We derive the geometric albedo of a near-Earth asteroid, (4179) Toutatis, to investigate its surface physical conditions. The asteroid has been studied rigorously not only via grou…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 12 cited

Investigation of surface homogeneity of (3200) Phaethon

Hee-Jae Lee, Myung-Jin Kim, Dong-Heun Kim +7

Time-series multi-band photometry and spectrometry were performed in Nov.-Dec. 2017 to investigate the homogeneity of the surface of asteroid (3200) Phaethon. We found that Phaetho…