| 项目编号: | ST/K001566/1
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| 项目名称: | Direct Detections of the Asteroidal YORP Effect |
| 作者: | Stephen Christopher Lowry
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| 承担单位: | University of Kent
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| 批准年: | 2011
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| 开始日期: | 2012-20-05
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| 结束日期: | 2012-19-08
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| 资助金额: | GBP1590
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| 资助来源: | UK-STFC
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| 项目类别: | Research Grant
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| 国家: | UK
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 特色学科分类: | Planetary science 
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| 英文摘要: | Telescope time has been awarded to study the asteroidal YORP effect.
Proposal Abstract: The YORP effect is a torque experienced by small asteroids that is due to both incident solar radiation pressure and the recoil effect from the anisotropic emission of thermal photons. It can modify their rotation rates and spin-axis orientations, and can explain many observed phenomena in asteroidal science. We will use the INT+WFC to obtain lightcurve coverage of several NEAs which are targets of an ESO Large Programme, the aim of which is to directly detect YORP-induced rotation period changes amongst a large sample of NEAs. The aim of this project is not to determine highly accurate period solutions for the objects, but rather to assist in the measurement of any potential phase offset in the asteroids' rotational lightcurve due to the YORP effect. The lightcurve data obtained at the INT will prove crucial to this programme since some of the targets are now unobservable from ESO. |
| 资源类型: | 项目
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/102828
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| Appears in Collections: | 科学计划与规划
气候变化与战略
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Stephen Christopher Lowry. Direct Detections of the Asteroidal YORP Effect. 2011-01-01.
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