3 papers
astro-ph.EP2026
Early intrafamily collisions in newly formed asteroid families
Roberto Balossi, Paolo Tanga, Aldo Dell'Oro
The dynamical and physical properties of asteroid family members are widely used to reconstruct the collisional evolution of the main belt and of individual objects. Families offer…
astro-ph.EP2025
An ancient L- type family associated to (460) Scania in the Middle Main Belt as revealed by Gaia DR3 spectra
Roberto Balossi, Paolo Tanga, Marco Delbo +2
Asteroid families are typically identified using hierarchical clustering methods (HCM) in the proper element phase space. However, these methods struggle with overlapping families,…
astro-ph.EP2024
Gaia DR3 asteroid reflectance spectra: L-type families, memberships, and ages
Roberto Balossi, Paolo Tanga, Alexey Sergeyev +2
The Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) contains reflectance spectra at visible wavelengths for 60,518 asteroids over the range between 374-1034 nm, representing a large sample that is well…