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- Asteroid Magnitudes, UBV colors, Albedos, and Diameters
-
- Edward F. Tedesco
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- MS 100-22
- Pasadena, CA 91109
-
- This file is essentially that provided as IRAS Asteroid and Comet Survey
- final data product No. 4 [IRAS Asteroid and Comet Survey: Preprint Version No.
- 1 (1986). (D. Matson, Ed.). JPL internal document No. 3698]. Differences
- between that file and MAG-ETAL.DAT are described below.
-
- Field Remarks
-
- Asteroid Asteroid number. Asteroids numbered through 3318 are included.
- There is one record for each asteroid.
-
- H The visual absolute magnitude from the IRAS ground-based input
- data set. These differ from the blue absolute magnitudes (HB)
- given in final data product No. 4. In many cases they also
- differ from those published in the 1988 Russian ephemeris.
-
- G The slope parameter from the IRAS ground-based input data set.
- In many cases these differ from those published in the 1988
- Russian ephemeris.
-
- HQ The quality code for the absolute magnitude and slope parameter.
- 3 is best and 1 worst.
-
- U-B The U-B color index from IRAS Asteroid and Comet Survey final
- data product 13.
-
- UQ The quality code for the U-B color index as given in final data
- product 13. [See below]
-
- B-V The B-V color index from IRAS Asteroid and Comet Survey final
- data product 13.
-
- BQ The quality code for the B-V color index as given in final data
- product 13. [See below]
-
- UBV Ref. The reference for the UBV color(s):
- 1 Bowell et al. (1979) In Asteroids (T. Gehrels, ed.),
- pp. 1108-1129. ["TRIAD"]
- 2 Zellner et al. (1985) Icarus 61, 355-416. ["ECAS"]
- 3 Weighted mean of values from references 1 and 2.
-
- Albedo Visual geometric albedo from IRAS Asteroid and Comet Survey final
- data product No. 4
-
- Albedo Unc. One sigma formal uncertainty in the visual geometric albedo from
- IRAS Asteroid and Comet Survey final data product No. 4
-
- D Diameter (in km) from IRAS Asteroid and Comet Survey final data
- product No. 4
-
- D Unc. One sigma formal uncertainty in the diameter from IRAS Asteroid
- and Comet Survey final data product No. 4
-
- No. IRAS Number of IRAS observations used in computing the albedo and
- diameter (from IRAS Asteroid and Comet Survey final data product
- No. 4)
-
- The quality codes for the UBV colors were obtained as follows:
-
- Quality For sigma
- Code
-
- 0 > 0.05 magnitude
- 1 <= 0.05 but > 0.03 magnitude
- 2 <= 0.03 but > 0.02 magnitude, and
- 3 <= 0.02 magnitude
- 4 <= 0.02 magnitude and good agreement between
- results from references 1 and 2.
-
- For additional details refer to the appropriate chapters in the IRAS Asteroid
- and Comet Survey: Preprint Version No. 1 (1986).