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Figure 1: Phased light curves for all observations for three of the four minor planets of this study - see Fig. 3 for the last one. E is the epoch in UTC "onboard'' the asteroid corresponding to the origin of the phase plot. T is the adopted synodic period for folding the observations. The horizontal axis represents the time of the observations, corrected for light travel, since E, in units of T, modulo 1; the leftmost quarter is repeated at right. The vertical axis represents the magnitude, usually unfiltered, based on the R-band of the USNO-A2.0 star catalogue (Monet 1998), from which the V-magnitude from the ephemeris is subtracted - used photometric parameters are tabulated in Table 1. One can easily notice some changes in the profile of the mutual phenomenons during the months following the discoveries, due to the evolution of the Sun-Asteroid-Earth configuration. |
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Figure 2:
This plots show the
theoretical light curve of a binary system
consisting of two equal sized prolate bodies
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Figure 3: Phased light curves for (4492) Debussy. See explanations in Fig. 1. |
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Figure 4:
Polar plot of the intrinsic variations
of the flux (linear scale) of the asteroid Berna during
one rotation of the system - radial coordinate.
The angular coordinate is the phase
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Figure 5: Geometry and symbol definitions used in the model described in Sect. 3.1. |
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Figure 6:
The completed distribution of the
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