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寻找活动小行星176 P/ LINEAR的活动恢复

Search for the Return of Activity in Active Asteroid 176P/LINEAR

Henry H. Hsieh, Larry Denneau, Alan Fitzsimmons, Olivier R. Hainaut, Masateru Ishiguro, Robert Jedicke, Heather M. Kaluna, Jacqueline V. Keane, Jan Kleyna, Pedr… 展开作者

Henry H. Hsieh, Larry Denneau, Alan Fitzsimmons, Olivier R. Hainaut, Masateru Ishiguro, Robert Jedicke, Heather M. Kaluna, Jacqueline V. Keane, Jan Kleyna, Pedro Lacerda, Eric M. MacLennan, Karen J. Meech, Nick A. Moskovitz, Timm Riesen, Eva Schunova, Colin Snodgrass, Chadwick A. Trujillo, Laurie Urban, Peter Veres, Richard J. Wainscoat, Bin Yang

摘要:

我们提出了一个搜索的结果,在其2011年的近日点通过使用深光学观测之前,期间和之后,近日点通过活跃的小行星176 P/LINEAR的重新激活。根据2011年6月至2011年12月期间获得的数据构建的176 P深度合成图像显示没有可见的活动迹象,而在此期间对该物体的光度测量也没有显示与2005年11月至2005年12月期间观察到的176 P类似的显着亮度增强。对尘埃排放的方位角搜索同样没有发现定向排放的证据(即,一个尾巴,如以前观察到的176 P),而一维表面亮度轮廓分析显示,在2011年的任何时候都没有球对称彗差的迹象。我们的结论是,176 P实际上并没有表现出活动在2011年,至少不是在2005年表现出活动的水平上,并建议这可能是由于负责其活动在2005年的活性位点的脱挥发分或地幔。

英文摘要:

We present the results of a search for the reactivation of active asteroid 176P/LINEAR during its 2011 perihelion passage using deep optical observations obtained before, during, and after that perihelion passage. Deep composite images of 176P constructed from data obtained between June 2011 and December 2011 show no visible signs of activity, while photometric measurements of the object during this period also show no significant brightness enhancements similar to that observed for 176P between November 2005 and December 2005 when it was previously observed to be active. An azimuthal search for dust emission likewise reveals no evidence for directed emission (i.e., a tail, as was previously observed for 176P), while a one-dimensional surface brightness profile analysis shows no indication of a spherically symmetric coma at any time in 2011. We conclude that 176P did not in fact exhibit activity in 2011, at least not on the level on which it exhibited activity in 2005, and suggest that this could be due to the devolatization or mantling of the active site responsible for its activity in 2005.

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