Taxonomy of asteroid families among the Jupiter Trojans: comparison between spectroscopic data and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey colors
@article{Roig2008TaxonomyOA, title={Taxonomy of asteroid families among the Jupiter Trojans: comparison between spectroscopic data and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey colors}, author={Fernando V. Roig and A. O. Ribeiro and Ricardo Gil-Hutton}, journal={Astronomy and Astrophysics}, year={2008}, volume={483}, pages={911-931} }
Aims. We present a comparative analysis of the spectral slope and color distributions of Jupiter Trojans, with particular attention to asteroid families. We use a sample of data from the Moving Object Catalog of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, together with spectra obtained from several surveys. Methods. We extracted a first sample of 349 observations, corresponding to 250 Trojan asteroids, from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and a second sample of 138 spectra, corresponding to 115 Trojans, from…
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