Extracting Asteroid Physical Properties from Vera C. Rubin Observatory Science Validation Survey Data: Rotational Periods, Colors, and Taxonomies

arXiv:2609.29841 · astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM · Submitted 2026-09-24 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM

Submitted: 2026-09-24

Updated: 2026-09-24

Code: https://github.com/rubin-dp0/delegate-contributions-dp03

Terminology

• Consistency — 13× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• External Validation — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Minor Planet Center — 2× in this paper
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey — 2× in this paper
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy — 1× in this paper
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Degeneracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Department of Energy — 1× in this paper
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory — 1× in this paper
• National Science Foundation — 1× in this paper
• Unified Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• alpha — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

Sources

• The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys
• A million asteroid observations in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• J-PLUS: A first glimpse at spectrophotometry of asteroids -- The MOOJa catalog
• Gaia Data Release 3: Reflectance spectra of Solar System small bodies
• Asteroids' reflectance from Gaia DR3: Artificial reddening at near-UV wavelengths
• Rotation periods of asteroids from light curves of TESS data
• The Absolute Magnitude of the Sun in Several Filters
• SsODNet: The Solar system Open Database Network
• A Census Before Rubin of Asteroid Families in the Main Belt
• Gaia DR3 supervised classification of asteroid reflectance spectra

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