2025
Shape and spin state model of contact binary (388188) 2006 DP<sub>14</sub> using combined radar and optical observations
CANNON, Richard E.; Agata ROZEK; Marina BROZOVIC; Petr PRAVEC; Colin SNODGRASS et al.Basic information
Original name
Shape and spin state model of contact binary (388188) 2006 DP<sub>14</sub> using combined radar and optical observations
Authors
CANNON, Richard E.; Agata ROZEK; Marina BROZOVIC; Petr PRAVEC; Colin SNODGRASS; Michael W BUSCH; James E. ROBINSON; Abbie DONALDSON; Tanja HOLC; Lance A M BENNER; Shantanu NAIDU; Peter KUSNIRAK; Daniel GARDENER; Hana KUČÁKOVÁ; Elahe KHALOUEI; Joseph POLLOCK; Mariangela BONAVITA; Petr FATKA; Kamil HORNOCH; Sedighe SAJADIAN; Lara ALEGRE; Flavia AMADIO; Michael I. ANDERSEN; Valerio BOZZA; Martin J. BURGDORF; Gabriele COLUMBA; Dominik MARTIN; R Figuera JAIMES; Tobias C. HINSE; Markus HUNDERTMARK; Uffe G. JORGENSEN; Penelope LONGA-PENA; Nuno PEIXINHO; Markus RABUS; Sohrab RAHVAR; Paolo ROTA; Jesper SKOTTFELT; John SOUTHWORTH and Jeremy TREGLOAN-REED
Edition
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, US - Spojené státy americké, 2025, 0035-8711
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Article in a journal
Field of Study
10308 Astronomy
Country of publisher
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree
is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor
Impact factor: 4.800 in 2024
Organization unit
Institute of physics in Opava
UT WoS
001455377700001
EID Scopus
2-s2.0-105002681552
Keywords in English
methods: observational;techniques: photometric;techniques: radar astronomy;minor planets; asteroids: individual: (388188) 2006 DP14
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Changed: 2/2/2026 12:16, Mgr. Pavlína Jalůvková
Abstract
In the original language
Contact binaries are found throughout the Solar System. The recent discovery of Selam, the satellite of main-belt asteroid (152830) Dinkinesh, by the NASA Lucy mission has made it clear that the term 'contact binary' covers a variety of different types of bimodal mass distributions and formation mechanisms. Only by modelling more contact binaries can this population be properly understood. We determined a spin state and shape model for the Apollo group contact binary asteroid (388188) 2006 DP14 using ground-based optical and radar observations collected between 2014 and 2023. Radar delay-Doppler images and continuous-wave spectra were collected over 2 d in February 2014, while 16 light curves in the Cousins R and SDSS-r filters were collected in 2014, 2022, and 2023. We modelled the spin state using convex inversion before using the shape modelling software to include the radar observations in modelling concavities and the distinctive neck structure connecting the two lobes. We find a spin state with a period of (5.7860 +/- 0.0001) h and pole solution of lambda=(180 +/- 121)degrees and beta=(-80 +/- 7)degrees with morphology indicating a 520 m long bilobed shape. The model's asymmetrical bimodal mass distribution resembles other small near-Earth asteroid contact binaries such as (85990) 1999 JV6 or (8567) 1996 HW1, which also feature a smaller 'head' attached to a larger 'body'. The final model features a crater on the larger lobe, similar to several other modelled contact binaries. The model's resolution is 25 m, comparable to that of the radar images used