Issue |
A&A
Volume 610, February 2018
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Article Number | A25 | |
Number of page(s) | 14 | |
Section | Planets and planetary systems | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731407 | |
Published online | 19 February 2018 |
Visible spectroscopy of the Sulamitis and Clarissa primitive families: a possible link to Erigone and Polana★
1
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC),
C/vía Láctea s/n,
38205
La Laguna,
Tenerife, Spain
e-mail: damog@iac.es
2
Departamento de Astrofísica, Universidad de La Laguna,
38205
La Laguna,
Tenerife, Spain
3
Observatório Nacional, Coordenação de Astronomia e Astrofísica,
20921-400
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
4
GTC Project Office,
38205
La Laguna,
Tenerife, Spain
5
Physics Department, University of Central Florida,
PO Box 162385,
Orlando,
FL
32816-2385, USA
6
Florida Space Institute, University of Central Florida,
Orlando,
FL
32816, USA
Received:
20
June
2017
Accepted:
5
October
2017
The low-inclination (i < 8∘) primitive asteroid families in the inner main belt, that is, Polana-Eulalia, Erigone, Sulamitis, and Clarissa, are considered to be the most likely sources of near-Earth asteroids (101955) Bennu and (162173) Ryugu. These two primitive NEAs will be visited by NASA OSIRIS-REx and JAXA Hayabusa 2 missions, respectively, with the aim of collecting samples of material from their surfaces and returning them back to Earth. In this context, the PRIMitive Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey (PRIMASS) was born, with the main aim to characterize the possible origins of these NEAs and constrain their dynamical evolution. As part of the PRIMASS survey we have already studied the Polana and Erigone collisional families in previously published works. The main goal of the work presented here is to compositionally characterize the Sulamitis and Clarissa families using visible spectroscopy. We have observed 97 asteroids (64 from Sulamitis and 33 from Clarissa) with the OSIRIS instrument (0.5-0.9 μm) at the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC). We found that about 60% of the sampled asteroids from the Sulamitis family show signs of aqueous alteration on their surfaces. We also found that the majority of the Clarissa members present no signs of hydration. The results obtained here show similarities between Sulamitis-Erigone and Clarissa-Polana collisional families.
Key words: minor planets, asteroids: general / methods: data analysis / techniques: spectroscopic
The reduced spectra are only available at the CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/610/A25
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