Table information for 'mp3c_main.prop_family'

General

Table Description: Family (parent bodies) measurements with bibliographic sources.

This table is available for ADQL queries and through the TAP endpoint.

Resource Description: This service publishes minor body data, including orbits, masses, diameters, albedos, families and magnitudes. The tables have the same format as those used by the Minor Planet Physical Properties Catalogue (MP3C) user-friendly interface at https://mp3c.oca.eu/ and let you run more complex queries than the web interface.

For a list of all services and tables belonging to this table's resource, see Information on resource 'Minor Planet Physical Properties Catalogue - Website mirror'

Resource Reference URL: https://mp3c.oca.eu/

Citing this table

This table has an associated publication. If you use data from it, it may be appropriate to reference 2013DPS....4520829T (ADS BibTeX entry for the publication) either in addition to or instead of the service reference.

To cite the table as such, we suggest the following BibTeX entry:

@MISC{vo:MP3C_Web,
  year=2022,
  title={Minor Planet Physical Properties Catalogue - Website mirror},
  author={Delbo, Marco},
  url={https://dachs.oca.eu/tableinfo/mp3c_main.prop_family},
  howpublished={{VO} resource provided by the {OCA} Data Center}
}

Columns

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NameTable Head DescriptionUnitUCD
author Author Author of measurement. N/A meta.bib.author
bid Bid Body ID representing an asteroid or dwarf planet across tables. Useful for JOIN queries. Body IDs are consistent only within a given version of the database and may change with time. N/A meta.id
c_param C_param C_j parameter that helps to identify potential interlopers in a family. A large absolute value means more chance that the body is in reality not part of the attributed family. For example, for the Nesvorny families, C_j is defined as C_j = 10^(-H_j/5) (a_j - a_center)/C_0, with H the absolute magnitude, a the proper semimajor axis of a member, a_center the family center, C_0 the best fit to the V-shape envelope of the family, and index j runs over individual bodies. N/A meta.number
family_id Family_id Author's ID of the family in which the body has been classified. N/A meta.id
family_name Family_name Author's name of family in which the body has been classified. N/A meta.id
id Id Row identifier. N/A meta.id
method Method Method used for the measurement. N/A meta.code
mpc_num Mpc_num MPC body number N/A meta.id
name Name Name of body (asteroid or dwarf planet). May be an alternative designation. N/A meta.id
parent Parent Parent body of body attributed by MP3C based on author's family. N/A meta.id
parent_name Parent_name Parent body name of body attributed by MP3C based on author's family. N/A meta.id
ref Ref Bibliographic reference for the measurement. N/A meta.bib
ref_url Ref_url Bibliographic reference URL for the measurement. N/A meta.ref.url

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