Techniques d'observation spectroscopique d'astéroïdes
Techniques d'observation spectroscopique d'astéroïdes Techniques d'observation spectroscopique d'astéroïdes
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5 M4AST - Modeling of Asteroids Spectra tel-00785991, version 1 - 7 Feb 2013 The increasing number of asteroid spectral measurements has lead to well-developed methods for analyzing asteroid spectra. There is however no centralized database for all the published data and a set of standard routines is also required. This chapter describes a public software tool (called M4AST) that combines both data archives and analyses of asteroid spectra. M4AST (Modeling for asteroids) consists of an asteroid spectral database and a set of applications for analyzing asteroid spectra. These applications cover aspects related to taxonomy, curve matching with laboratory spectra, space weathering models, and mineralogical diagnosis. M4AST tool is fully available via a web interface. The database contains around 2,700 spectra of asteroids that can be either processed in M4AST and/or downloaded. M4AST applications can also be used to characterize new asteroid spectra. The robustness of routines is proven by the solutions found for spectra of two NEAs: (99942) Apophis, and (175706) 1996 FG3. The results confirm those already published in the literature. M4AST was presented to the scientific community through a dedicated article published recently [Popescu et al., 2012b]. The presentation from this chapter closely follows the cited article. Asteroid spectra have been obtained since the late 1960s. McCord et al. [1970] published the first spectral measurements in the 0.3-1.1 µm wavelength region for the asteroid (4) Vesta, and found that its spectrum is similar to those of basaltic achondritic meteorites. The most important surveys in the 1980s for measuring the spectral characteristics of asteroids are the Eight- Color Asteroid Survey 1 (ECAS, Zellner et al. [1985]), and the 52-color survey 2 [Bell et al., 1988]. All these results showed the diversity of asteroid surface composition. In the last two decades, the development of CCD spectrograph and the access to 3 - 8 m telescope class have made possible to obtain spectra of significantly fainter asteroids with a much higher spectral resolution than achievable by broad-band photometry. Several spectroscopic surveys have been performed, including SMASS [Xu et al., 1995], SMASS2 [Bus & Binzel, 2002b], and S 3 OS 2 [Lazzaro et al., 2004]. Other spectroscopic surveys have been dedicated only to NEAs such as SINEO [Lazzarin et al., 2005] or the survey performed by de León et al. [2010]. The total number of asteroid spectra resulting from these surveys is in order of thousands and has led to a mature understanding of their population. Currently, the spectral data of asteroids continues to grow. The most important spectral 1 ECAS is a photometric survey 2 52-color is a spectrophotometric survey
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