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A&A
Volume 676, August 2023
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Article Number | A94 | |
Number of page(s) | 13 | |
Section | Planets and planetary systems | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202346032 | |
Published online | 11 August 2023 |
Spectral analogues of Barbarian asteroids among CO and CV chondrites
1
Université Côte d’Azur, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Laboratoire Lagrange,
06304
Nice, France
2
Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS,
91405
Orsay, France
e-mail: max.mahlke@ias.u-psud.fr
3
Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble, CNRS-CNES,
38000
Grenoble, France
Received:
31
January
2023
Accepted:
12
May
2023
Context. K- and L-type asteroids are considered to be the parent bodies of CV and CO chondrites. Spectral models of L-types invoke an enrichment in calcium-aluminium-rich inclusions (CAIs) with respect to the chondrites in the meteorite collection. Barbarian asteroids are associated to L-type asteroids yet the relationship between these populations is still not clear.
Aims. We aim to investigate the link between the K- and L-type and Barbarian asteroids and the CV and CO chondrites by means of spectral matching of a large number of reflectance spectra of objects from either population. We seek to identify matches based on observed rather than modelled spectral features.
Methods. We employ a matching criterion that accounts for the residuals and the correlation of the spectral features. The only free parameter in the comparison is the degree of alteration of the asteroids with respect to the meteorites expressed via an exponential model. We derive an absolute scale of similarity between the spectra using laboratory data from irradiation experiments.
Results. CVOxA chondrites are the best match to the asteroids, in particular to K-type (7 out of 11 asteroids matched) and Barbarians (11 out of 16). CO chondrites provide convincing matches for K-types (5 out of 11) and Barbarians (7 out of 16) as well. A single non-Barbarian L-type is matched to a meteorite. Only a few asteroids are matched to CVOxB and CVRed chondrites.
Conclusions. Barbarian asteroids are represented among CO and CVOxA chondrites without requiring an enrichment of CAIs in the asteroids. Four candidate Barbarian asteroids are identified, three of which are classified as K-types. These asteroids are favourable targets for polarimetric observations. The discrepancy between L-type asteroids and CV and CO chondrites is likely related to the ambiguity of the asteroid class itself. An extension of the taxonomy to include polarimetric properties is required.
Key words: minor planets, asteroids: general / meteorites, meteors, meteoroids / methods: statistical / techniques: spectroscopic
© The Authors 2023
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