Video Observations of Tiny Near-Earth Objects with Tomo-e Gozen
Jin Beniyama, Shigeyuki Sako, Ryou Ohsawa, Satoshi Takita, Naoto, Kobayashi, Shin-ichiro Okumura, Seitaro Urakawa, Makoto Yoshikawa, Fumihiko, Usui, Fumi Yoshida, Mamoru Doi, Yuu Niino, Toshikazu Shigeyama, Masaomi, Tanaka, Nozomu Tominaga, Tsutomu Aoki, Noriaki Arima

TL;DR
This study used video observations to analyze tiny near-Earth objects, discovering fast rotators and a truncation in their rotational period distribution, suggesting a new YORP effect dependence.
Contribution
First to systematically observe tiny NEOs with high temporal resolution, revealing their rotational properties and proposing a novel explanation involving the tangential YORP effect.
Findings
Discovered 13 fast rotators with periods less than 60 seconds.
Identified a truncation in the D-P distribution around 10 seconds.
Proposed tangential YORP effect as an explanation for the observed pattern.
Abstract
We report the results of video observations of tiny (diameter less than 100 m) near-Earth objects (NEOs) with Tomo-e Gozen on the Kiso 105 cm Schmidt telescope. A rotational period of a tiny asteroid reflects its dynamical history and physical properties since smaller objects are sensitive to the YORP effect. We carried out video observations of 60 tiny NEOs at 2 fps from 2018 to 2021 and successfully derived the rotational periods and axial ratios of 32 NEOs including 13 fast rotators with rotational periods less than 60 s. The fastest rotator found during our survey is 2020 HS7 with a rotational period of 2.99 s. We statistically confirmed that there is a certain number of tiny fast rotators in the NEO population, which have been missed with any previous surveys. We have discovered that the distribution of the tiny NEOs in a diameter and rotational period (D-P) diagram is truncated…
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