AKARI Asteroid Flux Catalog

The AKARI Asteroid Flux Catalog contains photometric data of 5201 asteroids observed with the infrared astronomical satellite AKARI (Murakami et al. 2007). The catalog objects comprise the near-Earth asteroids, the main belt asteroids, the Cybeles, the Hildas, and the Jovian Trojan asteroids. The observations were performed with the Infrared Camera (IRC; Onaka et al. 2007) on board AKARI by the all-sky survey in 9 or 18 um bands as well as the slow-scan observations in 9 or 18 um bands, and the pointed observations in 3, 4, 7, 11, 15, and/or 24 um bands. The all-sky survey (Usui et al. 2011) and the slow-scan observations (Hasegawa et al. 2013) detected asteroids serendipitously, while the pointed observations (Mueller et al. 2014, 2016) intentionally targeted the objects. Note that an asteroid was not observed with two or more bands simultaneously because of the alignment of the focal plane instruments or the filter operation of the detector.
This dataset or service is made available by the Infrared Science Archive (IRSA) at IPAC, which is operated by the California Institute of Technology under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.