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Binary asteroid cand. in Gaia DR3 astrometry

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Asteroids with companions constitute an excellent sample for studying the collisional and dynamical evolution of minor planets.

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The currently known binary population were discovered by different complementary techniques that produce, for the moment, a strongly biased distribution, especially in a range of intermediate asteroid sizes (~20 to 100km) where both mutual photometric events and high-resolution adaptive optic imaging are poorly efficient.

A totally independent technique of binary asteroid discovery, based on astrometry, can help to reveal new binary systems and populate a range of sizes and separations that remain nearly unexplored. In this work, we describe a dedicated period detection method and its results for the Gaia DR3 data set. This method looks for the presence of a periodic signature in the orbit post-fit residuals.

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After conservative filtering and validation based on statistical and physical criteria, we are able to present a first sample of astrometric binary candidates, to be confirmed by other observation techniques such as photometric light curves and stellar occultations.

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