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Shape model of asteroid (130) Elektra from optical photometry and disk-resolved images from VLT/SPHERE and Nirc2/Keck

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arxiv 1611.03632 v1 pith:EVY4AK3C submitted 2016-11-11 astro-ph.EP

Shape model of asteroid (130) Elektra from optical photometry and disk-resolved images from VLT/SPHERE and Nirc2/Keck

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Asteroid (130) Elektra belongs to one of the six known triple asteroids in the main belt, so its mass has been reliably determined. We aim to use all available disk-resolved images of (130) Elektra obtained by the SPHERE instrument at VLT and by the Nirc2 of the Keck telescope together with the disk-integrated photometry to determine its shape model and its size. The volume can be then used in combination with the known mass to derive the bulk density of the primary. We apply the All-Data Asteroid Modeling (ADAM) algorithm to the optical disk-integrated data, 2 disk-resolved images obtained by the SPHERE instrument and 13 disk-resolved images from the Nirc2 of the Keck telescope, and derive the shape model and size of Elektra. We present the shape model, volume-equivalent diameter (199$\pm$7 km) and bulk density (1.60$\pm$0.13 g cm$^{-3}$) of the C-type asteroid Elektra.

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