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J/A+A/375/275       Asteroidal I, J, K in the DENIS Survey   (Baudrand+ 2001)
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Asteroidal I, J, K magnitudes recovered in the DENIS Survey: first release
    Baudrand A., Bec-Borsenberger A., Borsenberger J., Barucci M.A.
   <Astron. Astrophys. 375, 275 (2001)>
   =2001A&A...375..275B
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ADC_Keywords: Surveys; Minor planets; Photometry, infrared
Keywords: asteroids ; infrared ; solar system ; survey

Description:
    I, J, K magnitudes of 1233 asteroids (numbered between 1 and 8000) are
    presented here. These asteroids have been recovered in the DENIS
    Survey (Deep European Near-Infrared southern sky Survey) on the basis
    of their predicted ephemerides. The observations were performed with
    the 1m-telescope at ESO, La Silla (Chile). The limiting magnitudes of
    the three bands I, J, K centered at 0.8, 1.25 and 2.15 microns are
    respectively 18.5, 16.5 and 13.5.

File Summary:
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 FileName  Lrecl  Records    Explanations
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ReadMe        80        .    This file
table3.dat   166      378    Asteroids detected in the three bands IJK
table4.dat   166      692    Asteroids detected in the two bands IJ
table5.dat   166      315    Asteroids detected only in the I-band
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See also:
    B/denis  : The DENIS database (Epchtein+, 1999)
    B/astorb : Orbits of Minor Planets (Bowell 2001)

Byte-by-byte Description of files: table3.dat, table4.dat, table5.dat
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   Bytes  Format Units  Label   Explanations
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   3-  6  I4     ---    Nast    Asteroid number
   9- 12  I4     ---    Nstrip  DENIS strip number
  15- 28  F14.6  d      Datejj  Julian date of the observation
  30- 38  F9.6   AU     Dgeo    Geocentric distance
  41- 45  F5.2   mag    Vpred   Predicted V magnitude
  49- 57  F9.6   deg    Phi     Phase angle
  59- 67  F9.6   AU     Dhel    Heliocentric distance
  70- 77  F8.0   ---    Nima    DENIS image number
  80- 89  F10.6  deg    RAdeg   Right Ascension (J2000) of DENIS source
  92-101  F10.6  deg    DEdeg   Declination (J2000) of DENIS source
 104-108  F5.2   mag    Imag    I-band magnitude
 111-115  F5.2   mag    Jmag    ?=99.99 J-band magnitude (1)
 118-122  F5.2   mag    Kmag    ?=99.99 K-band magnitude (1)
 126-129  F4.2   mag  e_Imag    I-band photometric RMS error
 133-136  F4.2   mag  e_Jmag    ?=9.99 J-band photometric RMS error (1)
 140-143  F4.2   mag  e_Kmag    ?=9.99 K-band photometric RMS error (1)
 147-150  F4.2  arcsec  Dist    Angular distance between the predicted position
                                  of the asteroid and its DENIS counter-part
 154-158  F5.3  arcsec  CEU     Current Ephemeris Uncertainty (Bowell Database)
 162-166  F5.3  arcsec  gPEU    greatest Peak Ephemeris Uncertainty
                                  within 10 years (Bowell Database)
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Note (1): When a color is missing, default out-of range values are given
    with respect to the format with the values:
    99.99 for the magnitude values
     9.99 for the error values
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Acknowledgements:
   the DENIS staff, the referee Mark Sykes

References:
   Bec-Borsenberger, A., 1992A&A...258...94B

   Bowell E., 1999, The Asteroid Orbital Elements Database,
        ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/elgb/astorb.html

   Sykes M. V., Cutri R. M., Fowler J. W., Tholen D. J.,
        Skrutskie M. F., Price S., Tedesco E. F., 2000, The 2MASS Asteroid
        and Comet Survey, Icarus 146, 161.

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(End)                                     Francois Ochsenbein [CDS]  03-Jul-2001

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