• Physics
• Published 2018
• DOI:10.1016/j.icarus.2017.12.024

Asteroid thermal modeling in the presence of reflected sunlight

@inproceedings{Myhrvold2018AsteroidTM,
  title={Asteroid thermal modeling in the presence of reflected sunlight},
  author={Nathan Myhrvold},
  year={2018}
}

• Nathan Myhrvold

Abstract A new derivation of simple asteroid thermal models is presented, investigating the need to account correctly for Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation when IR observations contain substantial reflected sunlight. The framework applies to both the NEATM and related thermal models. A new parameterization of these models eliminates the dependence of thermal modeling on visible absolute magnitude H , which is not always available. Monte Carlo simulations are used to assess the potential… CONTINUE READING

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