Modeling of Asteroid Shapes
Andrii Kokorev, Oleksiy Golubov
TL;DR
This paper reviews various asteroid shape modeling methods, focusing on lightcurve inversion and scattering laws, and introduces a program for generating lightcurves to compare models with observational data.
Contribution
It presents a new software tool for constructing and comparing asteroid shape models using lightcurve data.
Findings
The program effectively generates lightcurves from shape models.
Comparison with observational data improves shape model accuracy.
Different scattering laws impact lightcurve simulations.
Abstract
In this article we consider different methods of modeling asteroid shapes, especially lightcurve inversion technique, and scattering laws used for it. We also introduce our program, which constructs lightcurves for a given asteroid shape model. It can be used to comparing shape model with observational data.
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Taxonomy
TopicsAstro and Planetary Science · Planetary Science and Exploration · Geological and Geochemical Analysis