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特洛伊小行星的物理和轨道特性

Physical and orbital properties of the Trojan asteroids

M. D. Melita, J. Licandro, Jones, D. C., I. P. Williams

摘要:

所有的特洛伊小行星都以与木星大致相同的日心距离绕太阳运行。观测到的可见光反射光谱的差异范围从中性到红色,到目前为止还没有发现红外天体。鉴于特洛伊小行星是碰撞演化的,预计会有一定程度的变化。此外,宇宙辐射和升华是改变冰表面的重要因素,即使在那些大的日心距离。我们寻找物理和动力学性质之间的相关性,我们探索以下四个数量之间的关系;归一化可见光反射率指数($S'$),绝对幅度,观测到的特洛伊木马的轨道稳定性。我们在这里提出了25特洛伊可见光谱。这一新的数据增加了约5倍的样本大小的可见光谱的木星特洛伊不稳定的轨道。这些观测是在智利拉西拉的ESO-NTT望远镜(3.5米),西班牙拉帕尔马的Roque de los Muchachos天文台的ING-WHT(4.2米)和NOT(2.5米)进行的。我们已经发现的大小分布和轨道稳定性之间的相关性。在稳定轨道的特洛伊的绝对星等分布被发现是双峰,而不稳定的轨道之一是单峰,与小稳定特洛伊的斜率相似。这支持了不稳定物体主要是物理碰撞的副产品的假设。稳定和不稳定特洛伊木马的$S'$值均匀分布在一个很宽的范围内,从$0 %/1000Å$到大约$15 %/1000Å$。稳定特洛伊木马的值往往比不稳定的略红,但没有发现显着的统计差异。

英文摘要:

All the Trojan asteroids orbit about the Sun at roughly the same heliocentric distance as Jupiter. Differences in the observed visible reflection spectra range from neutral to red, with no ultra-red objects found so far. Given that the Trojan asteroids are collisionally evolved, a certain degree of variability is expected. Additionally, cosmic radiation and sublimation are important factors in modifying icy surfaces even at those large heliocentric distances. We search for correlations between physical and dynamical properties, we explore relationships between the following four quantities; the normalised visible reflectivity indexes ($S'$), the absolute magnitudes, the observed albedos and the orbital stability of the Trojans. We present here visible spectroscopic spectra of 25 Trojans. This new data increase by a factor of about 5 the size of the sample of visible spectra of Jupiter Trojans on unstable orbits. The observations were carried out at the ESO-NTT telescope (3.5m) at La Silla, Chile, the ING-WHT (4.2m) and NOT (2.5m) at Roque de los Muchachos observatory, La Palma, Spain. We have found a correlation between the size distribution and the orbital stability. The absolute-magnitude distribution of the Trojans in stable orbits is found to be bimodal, while the one of the unstable orbits is unimodal, with a slope similar to that of the small stable Trojans. This supports the hypothesis that the unstable objects are mainly byproducts of physical collisions. The values of $S'$ of both the stable and the unstable Trojans are uniformly distributed over a wide range, from $0 %/1000Å$ to about $15 %/1000Å$. The values for the stable Trojans tend to be slightly redder than the unstable ones, but no significant statistical difference is found.

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