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Caption: Figure 3.
We compute VPTF model magnitudes by first assigning fixed Abond and G12 values to each GALEX-observed asteroid depending on its color class; we then use D to compute H, and finally use the assumed G12 value to predict V. The fixed values of Abond and G12 are medians from the color-albedo-G12 data in Waszczak et al. (2015), 2D histograms of which are shown here. Above each plot is the sample size (N = …). A total of 642 asteroids have color data and G12 values in the PTF data; 355 of these also have diameters available (required to compute Abond). Panel (D) shows that WISE W1 geometric albedos correlate with the PTF bond albedo; we thus use the WISE pW1 data to assign C types either a low (Abond ≈ 0.01) or high (Abond ≈ 0.04) bond albedo.
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