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Table 1

Best asteroid matches (ordered by the lowest χ2, performed on 139 normalized spectra) in terms of spectral slope for the Phobos blue unit, the Phobos red unit, and Deimos (Fraeman et al. 2014).

Asteroids Type(a) χ2(b) Albedo
Phobos red unit Schalen Z 0.0003 0.0510 ± 0.0097
(pv = 0.0683 ± 0.0005) Odysseus D 0.0007 0.0549 ± 0.0101
Thule Z 0.0013 0.0404 ± 0.0075
Hidalgo D 0.0014 0.0603
Rovereto Z 0.0015 0.0771 ± 0.0148
Buda Z 0.0020 0.1373 ± 0.0264

Phobos blue unit Hesperia M 0.0001 0.1855 ± 0.061
(pv = 0.0837 ± 0.0005) Sylvia P 0.0002 0.0389 ± 0.0072
Kalliope M 0.0002 0.1428 ± 0.0281
Pandora M 0.0002 0.2587 ± 0.0704
Lydia M 0.0003 0.1482 ± 0.0299
Hilda P 0.0004 0.0496 ± 0.0093

Deimos Odysseus D 0.0005 0.0549 ± 0.0101
(pv = 0.068 ± 0.007) Schalen Z 0.0006 0.0510 ± 0.0097
Rovereto Z 0.0010 0.0771 ± 0.0148
Komppa Z 0.0012 0.0603 ± 0.0112
Buda Z 0.0022 0.1373 ± 0.0264
Hidalgo D 0.0023 0.0603

Notes. (a) The spectral types follow the Mahlke classification (Mahlke et al. 2022). (b) The χ2 method was run on smooth and normalized spectra.

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