The data for Radar Circular Polarization Ratio of Near-Earth Asteroids: Links to Spectral Taxonomy and Surface Processes

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% Project: "Radar Circular Polarization Ratio of Near-Earth Asteroids: Links to 
% Spectral Taxonomy and Surface Processes"
% Author: Edgard G. Rivera-Valentín
% Institution: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
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% Date: 18 September 2024
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% Description:
% This is a data repository for the manuscript published in the Planetary
% Science Journal:
% Title = Radar Circular Polarization Ratio of Near-Earth Asteroids: Links 
% to Spectral Taxonomy and Surface Processes
% Please see the Zenodo metadata for detailed publicatoin information.
% This repository includes:
% (1) A csv file that has the table of data used in the published work. The
% table includes the data for each near-Earth asteroid used in the
% anlaysis. The header information includes: Asteroid Number, Designation
% or Name, Taxonomic Type (Following the Bus-DeMeo classification system),
% CPR (where CPR is circular polarization ratio), CPR uncertainty (where
% the uncertainty is the 1-sigma value), a (where a is semi-major axis in
% au), q (where q is the perihelion distance in au), Q (where Q is the
% aphelion distance in au), P (where P is the rotational period in hours),
% Hmag (where Hmag is the absolute magnitude), and Orbital Class. 
% (2) A .mrt file that contains the same data as the csv file, but formatted
% according to the specifications of the machine-readable table format
% used by the AAS Journals. The .mrt version will also be published with
% the final PSJ article.
% (3) .mat files containing the output from the statistical modeling
% presented in the paper. These files are required to run the .m file
% included in this repository.
% (4) Make Figures.m, which is a Matlab code that remakes all the figures
% presented in the paper given the data in each of the .mat files. 
% (5) The .png files for each of the figures presented in the paper. 
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% File Formats:
% This archive includes various file formats. 
% .csv file is a text file format that uses commas to separate values, and
% newlines to separate records. 
% .mrt file is an ASCII byte-by-byte format that is documented here:
% https://journals.aas.org/mrt-overview/
% and readable by tools such as astropy, TOPCACT, etc. 
% .m file is a simple text file used by Matlab, it can be opened by any
% text editor and executed by Matlab. 
% .mat file is the file format used by MATLAB for saving data. It can be
% ready by other software, such as python, e.g., 
% https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.io.loadmat.html
% .png file is short for Portable Network Graphic, which is a type of
% raster image file. 
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