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An ALMA Search for High-albedo Objects Among the Midsized Jupiter Trojan Population

  • Authors: Anna M. Simpson, Michael E. Brown, Madeline J. Schemel, Bryan J. Butler

Anna M. Simpson et al 2022 The Astronomical Journal 164 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 4.

Diameter plotted against albedo for all objects modeled, with the three calibrators shown in red. Lines of constant absolute magnitude (Equation (2)) are plotted in gray for values of absolute magnitude between 10 and 12. While it appears that diameter and albedo are anticorrelated, this apparent trend is driven mostly by the fact that for a given value of absolute magnitude, albedo, and diameter can only fall along the indicated line. Because of the limited range of absolute magnitudes observed, it is unknown if small low albedo objects exists, though from the WISE data it is clear that large high-albedo objects do not.

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