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Título:
Estudio fotometrico del Centauro (2060) Chiron
Autor/es:
ALVAREZ, ALVARO; SANCHEZ, ARIEL GUILLERMO; LARES, MARCELO; LEIVA, MARTIN; PIVATO, MAXIMILIANO
Lugar:
Tafi del Valle, Tucuman, Argentina
Reunión:
Congreso; 44 Reunion Anual de la Asociacion Argentina de Astronomia; 2000
Institución organizadora:
Asociacion Argentina de Astronomia
Resumen:
We have carried out photometric observations of the Centaur (2060) Chiron in the V and R bands at the Complejo Astronómico El Leoncito (CASLEO) and the Bosque Alegre Astrophysical Station. We have obtained the object´s reduced magnitude correspondent to each night of observation, verifying that it remains in a period of minimum activity. We have constructed a composite light curve with the observations, throughout a Fourier analysis, we have obtained a period of P = 5.88 ± 0.01 hours; and an amplitude of Δ m = 0.08 ± 0.01 magnitudes. We propose an alternative explanation to the variation of the light curve amplitude between the maximum and minimum activity periods.