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Photometric Study of the Fastest-rotating Near-Earth Asteroid 2024 XA1

  • Authors: Xiliang Zhang, Xiangyu Fan, Man-To Hui, Marco Micheli, Maxime Devogèle, Yongxiong Zhang, Ling Wang

Xiliang Zhang et al 2026 The Astronomical Journal 172 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 4.

The figure shows the extracted trail of 2024 XA1. The brightness level of 0 corresponds to the mean background level in the image. The black points mark the fitted start and end positions, while the blue points trace the model-predicted trail, with a time interval of 0.1 s between adjacent points. From the image we note that the actual trail does not follow a perfectly straight line from the starting point to the ending point, but exhibits small deviations, which we attribute to atmospheric turbulence.

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