Adaptive optics and lightcurve data of asteroids: twenty shape models and information content analysis
1 Department of Mathematics, Tampere University of Technology, PO Box 553, 33101 Tampere, Finland
e-mail: matti.viikinkoski@tut.fi
2 Astronomical Institute, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, V Holešovičkách 2, 18000 Prague, Czech Republic
3 SETI Institute, Carl Sagan Center, 189 Bernado Avenue, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
Received: 28 June 2017
Accepted: 16 August 2017
We present shape models and volume estimates of twenty asteroids based on relative photometry and adaptive optics images. We discuss error estimation and the effects of myopic deconvolution on shape solutions. For further analysis of the information capacities of data sources, we also present and discuss ambiguity and uniqueness results for the reconstruction of nonconvex shapes from photometry.
Key words: methods: numerical / methods: analytical / minor planets, asteroids: general / techniques: photometric / instrumentation: adaptive optics
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