Light curves and colours of the ejecta from Dimorphos after the DART impact
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Graykowski, Ariel, Lambert, Ryan A., Marchis, Franck, Cazeneuve, Dorian, Dalba, Paul A., Esposito, Thomas M., Peluso, Daniel O’Conner, Sgro, Lauren A., Blaclard, Guillaume, Borot, Antonin, Malvache, Arnaud, Marfisi, Laurent, Powell, Tyler M., Huet, Patrice, Limagne, Matthieu, Payet, Bruno, Clarke, Colin, Murabana, Susan, Owen, Daniel Chu, ..., Transom, Ian M.. 2023. "Light curves and colours of the ejecta from Dimorphos after the DART impact." Nature. 616, pp. 461-464. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05852-9
Article Title | Light curves and colours of the ejecta from Dimorphos after the DART impact |
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ERA Journal ID | 17479 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Graykowski, Ariel, Lambert, Ryan A., Marchis, Franck, Cazeneuve, Dorian, Dalba, Paul A., Esposito, Thomas M., Peluso, Daniel O’Conner, Sgro, Lauren A., Blaclard, Guillaume, Borot, Antonin, Malvache, Arnaud, Marfisi, Laurent, Powell, Tyler M., Huet, Patrice, Limagne, Matthieu, Payet, Bruno, Clarke, Colin, Murabana, Susan, Owen, Daniel Chu, Wasilwa, Ronald, Fukui, Keiichi, Goto, Tateki, Guillet, Bruno, Huth, Patrick, Ishiyama, Satoshi, Kukita, Ryuichi, Mitchell, Mike, Primm, Michael, Randolph, Justus, Rivett, Darren A., Ryno, Matthew, Shimizu, Masao, Toullec, Jean-Pierre, Will, Stefan, Yue, Wai-Chun, Camilleri, Michael, Graykowski, Kathy, Janetzke, Ron, Janke, Des, Kardel, Scott, Loose, Margaret, Pickering, John W., Smith, Barton A. and Transom, Ian M. |
Journal Title | Nature |
Journal Citation | 616, pp. 461-464 |
Number of Pages | 8 |
Year | 2023 |
Publisher | Nature Publishing Group |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
ISSN | 0028-0836 |
0090-0028 | |
0300-8746 | |
1476-4687 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05852-9 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05852-9 |
Abstract | On 26 September 2022, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft struck Dimorphos, a satellite of the asteroid 65803 Didymos1. Because it is a binary system, it is possible to determine how much the orbit of the satellite changed, as part of a test of what is necessary to deflect an asteroid that might threaten Earth with an impact. In nominal cases, pre-impact predictions of the orbital period reduction ranged from roughly 8.8 to 17 min (refs. 2,3). Here we report optical observations of Dimorphos before, during and after the impact, from a network of citizen scientists’ telescopes across the world. We find a maximum brightening of 2.29 ± 0.14 mag on impact. Didymos fades back to its pre-impact brightness over the course of 23.7 ± 0.7 days. We estimate lower limits on the mass contained in the ejecta, which was 0.3–0.5% Dimorphos’s mass depending on the dust size. We also observe a reddening of the ejecta on impact. |
Keywords | Dimorphos; DART impact; Double Asteroid Redirection Test |
Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 5101. Astronomical sciences |
Byline Affiliations | SETI Institute, United States |
Unistellar, France | |
University of California Santa Cruz, United States | |
University of California Berkeley, United States | |
Centre for Astrophysics | |
University of California Los Angeles, United States | |
Unistellar Citizen Scientists | |
Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, United Kingdom | |
Travelling Telescope, Kenya | |
Community College of Allegheny County, United States | |
University of Otago, New Zealand | |
Christchurch Hospital, New Zealand | |
Hamilton Astronomical Society Observatory, New Zealand |
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