GAIA: SOLAR SYSTEM ASTROMETRY IN DR2
P. Tanga 1, F. Spoto1,2
1Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Nice, France 2IMCCE, Observatoire de Paris, France P. Tanga – Gaia and the Solar System 2 Gaia is observing asteroids - Scanning the sky since July 2014 (operational phase) - Solar elongations 45° to 135° - Limiting magnitude V~20.5
- 100.000 asteroid observations (CCD level) / day 45°
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IAU 30 GA - Wien - 2018 P. Tanga – Gaia and the Solar System 3 Gaia DR2 - Solar System
On the base of a pre-selected list of known objects > 10 FOV transits over the 22 months of DR2 August 5, 2014 - May 23, 2016
Objects 14 099 Epoch astrometry 1 997 702 CCD positions 287 904 transits (52% : photometry) Typ. accuracy <1 mas (along scan)
IAU 30 GA - Wien - 2018 P. Tanga – Gaia and the Solar System 4 Gaia DR2 - Solar System statistics 1:0e5 1200
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IAU 30 GA - Wien - 2018 P. Tanga – Gaia and the Solar System 5 Gaia DR2 - Solar System - single transit astrometric performance
Residuals from the orbital fit of Gaia DR2 data only (along-scan direction) Spoto et al. 2018
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Asteroid (386) Siegena - residuals from orbital fit
Combining archive data (2776 obs.) to GDR2
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IAU 30 GA - Wien - 2018 P. Tanga – Gaia and the Solar System 7 The situation, before Gaia
• 1.9 x 108 measurements in the archives of the Minor Planet Center • mostly CCD imaging • average accuracy: 0.4 as
• ~2000 radar ranging measurements • equivalent accuracy : 10-50 mag
IAU 30 GA - Wien - 2018 P. Tanga – Gaia and the Solar System 8 Some challenges for asteroid astrometry
Discover asteroid satellites New / precise asteroid masses from their wobbling
0.5 - 10 mas
1000s encounters/year > 10 mas
Improve predictions of stellar occultations ~a few mas Measure the orbital drift due to Yarkovsky force
IAU 30 GA - Wien - 2018 P. Tanga – Gaia and the Solar System 9 Yarkovsky effect: why we care
• Yarkovsky applications: – NEO and meteorite transport – physical properties (spin, density…) – family dispersion, ages
Spoto et al. 2015 • The challenge: measure a few, apply to many —> connection to spectro- photometry by Gaia: • low-res spectra: taxonomy in the visible • mmag photometry: shape determinations • Large sample by end of mission: ~ 350 000
Delbo, Galluccio, De Angeli, ESA/Gaia/DPAC
IAU 30 GA - Wien - 2018 P. Tanga – Gaia and the Solar System 10 Yarkovsky and Gaia ? ~ 3 x 10-9 AU Pre-Gaia orbit quality (MPC data)
1/D (1/km) In DR2: – 3 NEOs with measured Yarkovsky – 5 NEOs with marginal detection – about 20 good MB candidates
Orbit uncertainty (km)
IAU 30 GA - Wien - 2018 P. Tanga – Gaia and the Solar System 11 Asteroid family members in DR2 4676 family members in DR2 (from AstDys membership)
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IAU 30 GA - Wien - 2018 P. Tanga – Gaia and the Solar System 12 Joint exploitation Gaia + pre-Gaia astrometry: bias example Asteroid (1132) Hollandia Liverpool Telescope + VST (8 hours apart) & MPC ground-based data (~1900 positions)
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(credits: Gaia GBOT team)
IAU 30 GA - Wien - 2018 P. Tanga – Gaia and the Solar System 13 The occultation astrometry with Gaia
• DR2 already successfully exploited • Triton (Octobre 3, 2017) • 2014 MU69 (V=27.5, 50 km KBO, ~1.4 mas)!!
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IAU 30 GA - Wien - 2018 P. Tanga – Gaia and the Solar System 14 Robotic observations of asteroid occultations
• Extension to faint magnitudes and small asteroids • Only method providing ~Gaia accuracy • 50 cm robotic telescope at OCA, France
ASTROMETRIC OBSERVATIONS DATA
EXPLOITATION: YARKOVSKY, IMPROVED OCCULTATION DYNAMICAL MODEL PREDICTIONS AND ORBITS
IAU 30 GA - Wien - 2018 P. Tanga – Gaia and the Solar System 15 Conclusions
• Gaia DR2 asteroid data: the first sample, already useful to test subtle dynamical effects • Yarkovsky determination • general orbit improvement • application to stellar occultations • Combination with other observations: it starts to work… • but weighting of the data is critical • accurate debiasing is required • a new method successfully implemented and tested • Yarkovsky detection in the Main Belt is getting closer…
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Diffusion of asteroid alertsFrom the Gaia-FUN-SSO web site (the red contours are computed by the SSO-ST pipeline and show the search area on the sky, on three different dates):
Topocentric predictions
http://gaiafunsso.imcce.fr
B. Carry (OCA), W. Thuillot (IMCCE)
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