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Title: | A successful search for hidden barbarians in the watsonia asteroid family | Authors: | Cellino, A. Bagnulo, S. Tanga, P. Novaković, Bojan Delbò, M. |
Affiliations: | Astronomy | Keywords: | Minor planets,asteroids: general;Polarization | Issue Date: | 1-Mar-2014 | Journal: | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters | Abstract: | Barbarians, so named after the prototype of this class (234) Barbara, are a rare class of asteroids exhibiting anomalous polarimetric properties. Their very distinctive feature is that they show negative polarization at relatively large phase angles, where all 'normal' asteroids show positive polarization. The origin of the Barbarian phenomenon is unclear, but it seems to be correlated with the presence of anomalous abundances of spinel, a mineral usually associated with the so-called calcium-aluminium-rich inclusions (CAIs) on meteorites. Since CAIs are samples of the oldest solid matter identified in our Solar system, Barbarians are very interesting targets for investigations. Inspired by the fact that some of the few known Barbarians are members of, or very close to, the dynamical family of Watsonia, we have checked whether this family is a major repository of Barbarians, in order to obtain some hints about their possible collisional origin. We have measured the linear polarization of a sample of nine asteroids which are members of the Watsonia family within the phase-angle range 17°-21°. We found that seven of them exhibit the peculiar Barbarian polarization signature, and we conclude that the Watsonia family is a repository of Barbarian asteroids. The new Barbarians identified in our analysis will be important to confirm the possible link between the Barbarian phenomenon and the presence of spinel on the surface. © 2014 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. |
URI: | https://research.matf.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1209 | ISSN: | 17453925 | DOI: | 10.1093/mnrasl/slt184 |
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