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The Gaia Mission and the Asteroids

A Perspective from Space Astrometry and Photometry for Asteroids Studies and Science

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The Gaia space mission to be operated in early 2012 by the European Space Agency (ESA) will make a huge step in our knowledge of the Sun’s neighbourhood, up to the Magellanic Clouds. Somewhat closer, Gaia will also provide major improvements in the science of asteroids, and more generally to our Solar System, either directly or indirectly. Gaia is a scanning survey telescope aimed to perform high-accuracy astrometry and photometry. More specifically, it will provide physical and dynamical characterisation of asteroids; a better knowledge of the solar system composition, formation and evolution; local test of the general relativity; and linking the dynamical reference frame to the kinematical ICRS. We develop here the general aspects of asteroid observations and the scientific harvest in perspective of what was achieved in the pre-Gaia era. In this lecture we focus on the determination of size of asteroids, shape and rotation, taxonomy, orbits and their improvements with historical highlight and also the dynamical model in general.

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The authors wish to thank Marco Delb`o (OCA, Nice) and Serge Mouret (IMCCE, Paris) for their various contributions and help, undergraduate students who also took part in the project, and themembers of the Gaia-CU4/SSO and Gaia-REMAT at large.We also acknowledge Marc Fouchard (IMCCE, Paris) for his careful reading of the manuscript and improving the quality of the text. Let us express our gratitude to the editors and also organisers of this school in Bad Hofgastein (Austria).

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Hestroffer, D., dell’Oro, A., Cellino, A., Tanga, P. (2010). The Gaia Mission and the Asteroids. In: Souchay, J., Dvorak, R. (eds) Dynamics of Small Solar System Bodies and Exoplanets. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 790. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04458-8_6

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