REGOLITH OF LOW FROM PHOTOMETRIC DATA Shevchenko V.G.

Institute of Astronomy of Kharkiv Kharazin National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Belskaya I.N.

LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Meodon, France The -phase angle dependences of asteroids show noticeable differences for high, moderate and low albedo surfaces. It gives a possibility to distinguish between different types by using their phase curves.

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1.2 0 5 10 15 20 25 Phase angle The parameters of magnitude-phase relations (linear phase coefficient, amplitude, width of opposition effect) also differ for high, moderate and low albedo surfaces.

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0.1 Albedo The phase coefficients defined in the range of 10-25 deg correlate with of asteroids, that allows to determine surface albedo of asteroids using only magnitude-phase relation.

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0.01 0.01 0.10 1.00 Log Albedo Photometric albedo of 2867 Steins, derived using the linear coefficient 0.023 mag/deg in the V band (Dotto et al. 2009) is 0.38, which is close to the value obtained from the Rosetta mission.

0.10 Observational data Asteroids of the same compositional Mean behavior a) 0.05 type typically display similar magnitude-phase dependences. 0.00 However, more detailed analysis of phase curves for low albedo asteroids -0.05 shows diversity in their opposition 0.25 effect behaviour. There are three main 0.20 b) types of opposition behaviour : 0.15

a) ~20% of all studied low albedo

0.10 asteroids revealed practically linear phase angle dependences with the OE 0.05 0.00 amplitude ≤0.06 mag; b) ~40% asteroids displayed wide Relative Magnitude -0.05 opposition effect starting at the phase 0.15 angle 6-7 deg with amplitude of 0.15- c)

0.25 mag; 0.10 c) ~40% asteroids showed a narrower 0.05 opposition effect starting at the phase angle of about 4 deg and reaching 0.1- 0.00 0.13 mag.

-0.05 0 5 10 15 20 Phase angle layer of asteroids, which increases both the opposition layer of asteroids, opposition whichboth increasesthe and the brightening UV spectralslope. This canbe an correlation byof explained aincrease portion light substance ofsurface in the is albedo A inherent linear OE Amplitude, mag -0.1 asteroids 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 correlation 0.2 for G D F . types The F of smallest . X the P CP P B 0.3 OE C C C FCX C B CX OE amplitude CP C U -B (if

P CX C C any) C P and C is G 0.4 observed C U - B G colour for G CU F index and 0.5 P has types been

Reflectance . The found largest for low OE This assumption is confirmed by the observed correlation of the OE amplitude and albedo. The OE amplitude tends to increase when albedo increases. The trend is opposite to that expected for the shadow hiding mechanism and gives an evidence that a non-linear increase in brightness at small phase angles is caused by other physical mechanisms.

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0.04 0.06 0.08 0.10 0.12 Albedo Analysis of possible dependence of the OE amplitudes on wavelength in UBVRI spectral range for nine low albedo asteroids showed only small variations and a slight trend to the OE decrease with increasing wavelength.

0.10 1 176 588 47 190 615 127 303 635 0.05

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-0.10 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 Wavelength, mkm The asteroids with very small OE amplitude (if any) present additional interest for investigations of their regolith properties. At present only seven such asteroids are known. 7.5 59 Elpis 419 Aurelia 190 Ismene 423 Diotima 276 Adelheid 8.0 1021 Flammario

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59 Elpis 9.5 190 Ismene 276 Adelheid 419 Aurelia 423 Diotima 0 5 10 15 588 Achilles

0.05 1021 Flammario Phase angle

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0 5 10 15 20 Phase angle Two asteroids from this dataset belong to Hilda group (190 Ismene) and Trojans (588 Achilles). We have performed new observations of Trojans. The magnitude-phase relations and did not show OE amplitude larger than observational errors. An absence of OE is probably typical for these distant asteroid groups.

7.8 588 Achilles 8.0 190 Ismene

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9.0 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 Phase angle Conclusions 1. Low albedo asteroids show considerable diversity in the opposition effect behaviour which implies different surface properties. 2. Correlation of the opposition effect amplitude and the UV spectral slope has been found for dark asteroids. 3. The opposition effect amplitude tends to increase when albedo increases which is opposite to that expected for the shadow hiding mechanism. The darkest asteroids do not show non-linear opposition brightening in their magnitude phase dependences.