3 papers
astro-ph.EP2026
Gaia DR3 supervised classification of asteroid reflectance spectra
Marco Delbo, Thomas Dyer, Ullas Bhat +3
We present a supervised, probabilistic taxonomic classification of asteroid reflectance spectra from Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3). Using high-quality Gaia DR3 spectra and a reference…
astro-ph.EP2025
Confined tumbling state as the origin of the excess of slowly rotating asteroids
Wen-Han Zhou, Patrick Michel, Marco Delbo +4
The rotational distribution of asteroids as a function of their size is used {as a diagnostic of} their physical properties and evolution. Recent photometric surveys from the Gaia…
astro-ph.EP2024
The Yarkovsky effect on the long-term evolution of binary asteroids
Wen-Han Zhou, David Vokrouhlicky, Masanori Kanamaru +4
We explore the Yarkovsky effect on small binary asteroids. While significant attention has been given to the binary YORP effect, the Yarkovsky effect is often overlooked. We develo…