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The Non-principal-axis Rotation and Convex Shape Model of the Earth Quasi-satellite and Target of China’s Tianwen-2 Mission (469219) Kamo‘oalewa

  • Authors: Xiaoyu Sun, 效宇 孙, Zhijun Song, 志军 宋, Hanjie Tan, 瀚杰 谭, Bin Yang, 彬 杨, Josef Ďurech, Nicholas Moskovitz, Audrey Thirouin, Samantha Hemmelgarn, Wen Bo, 文 博, Yang Yu, 洋 于, Jian-Yang Li, 荐扬 李

Xiaoyu Sun et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1010 .

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Observed photometric lightcurves (black symbols with error bars representing the 1σ photometric uncertainties) of Kamo‘oalewa from GN on 2026 April 20 (a), April 22 (b), and May 9 (d), and from LDT on May 7 (c). Overplotted are the best-fit models assuming non-principal-axis rotation using a triaxial ellipsoidal shape in LAM (orange solid curve) and SAM (red dashed curve) (see Section 4), and a convex shape in LAM (blue solid curve) (see Section 5). All lightcurves are plotted in linear flux scale and normalized to unity at their respective averages.

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