MAHLKE , Max

The minor bodies of the Solar System are witnesses of the formation history of our Solar System. Their compositional diversity represents the material present in the protoplanetary disk altered through hundreds of millions of years of collisional evolution, thermal metamorphism,aqueous alteration, and irradiation from the space environment. The...

Asteroid phase curves are used to derive fundamental physical properties through the determination of the absolute magnitude H. The upcoming visible Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) and mid-infrared Near-Earth Object Surveillance Mission (NEOSM) surveys rely on these absolute magnitudes to derive the colours and albedos of millions of...

Observatories and satellites around the globe produce tremendous amounts of imaging data to study many different astrophysical phenomena. The serendipitous observations of Solar System objects are a fortunate by-product which have often been neglected due to the lack of a simple yet efficient identification algorithm. Meanwhile, the...