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Title: | An automatic approach to exclude interlopers from asteroid families | Authors: | Radović, Viktor Novaković, Bojan Carruba, Valerio Marčeta, Dušan |
Affiliations: | Astronomy | Keywords: | Asteroids;General;Minor planets | Issue Date: | 1-Sep-2017 | Journal: | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Abstract: | Asteroid families are a valuable source of information to many asteroid-related researches, assuming a reliable list of their members could be obtained. However, as the number of known asteroids increases fast it becomes more and more difficult to obtain a robust list of members of an asteroid family. Here, we are proposing a new approach to deal with the problem, based on the well-known hierarchical clustering method. An additional step in the whole procedure is introduced in order to reduce a so-called chaining effect. The main idea is to prevent chaining through an already identified interloper. We show that in this way a number of potential interlopers among family members is significantly reduced. Moreover, we developed an automatic online-based portal to apply this procedure, i.e. to generate a list of family members as well as a list of potential interlopers. The Asteroid Families Portal is freely available to all interested researchers. |
URI: | https://research.matf.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1180 | ISSN: | 00358711 | DOI: | 10.1093/MNRAS/STX1273 |
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