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Serendipitous stellar occultation search is so far the only way to detect the existence of very small, very dim, remote objects in the solar system. To date, however, there are only very few reported detections for trans-Neptunian objects…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Hsiang-Kuang Chang , Chih-Yuan Liu , Kuan-Ting Chen

The first two observational sky "blocks" of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS) have significantly increased the number of well-characterized observed trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) in Neptune's mean motion resonances. We describe…

An extremely bright storm system observed in Uranus' atmosphere by amateur observers in September 2014 triggered an international campaign to observe this feature with many telescopes across the world. Observations of the storm system in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-09 Patrick G. J. Irwin , Leigh N. Fletcher , Peter L. Read , Dane Tice , Imke de Pater , Glenn S. Orton , Nicholas A. Teanby , Gary R. Davis

As part of the EURONEAR project, almost 70,000 mosaic Suprime-Cam images taken between 1999 and 2013 were data mined for about 9,800 near Earth asteroids (NEAs) known by 2013 May. Using our PRECOVERY server and the "Find Subaru CCD" tool,…

The supernova remnant SNR 0540-69.3, twin of the Crab Nebula, offers an excellent opportunity to study the continuum emission from a young pulsar and pulsar-wind nebula (PWN). We present observations taken with the VLT instruments MUSE and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-21 L. Tenhu , J. Larsson , J. Sollerman , P. Lundqvist , J. Spyromilio , J. D. Lyman , G. Olofsson

ULTIMATE-Subaru (Ultra-wide Laser Tomographic Imager and MOS with AO for Transcendent Exploration on Subaru) and WFIRST (Wide Field Infra-Red Survey Telescope) are the next generation near-infrared instruments that have a large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-28 Takashi J. Moriya , Kenneth C. Wong , Yusei Koyama , Masaomi Tanaka , Masamune Oguri , Stefan Hilbert , Ken'ichi Nomoto

We present the description and initial results of the TRAPUM (TRAnsients And PUlsars with MeerKAT) search for pulsars associated with supernova remnants (SNRs), pulsar wind nebulae and unidentified TeV emission. The list of sources to be…

We present an overview of a deep transient survey of the COSMOS field with the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC). The survey was performed for the 1.77 deg$^2$ ultra-deep layer and 5.78 deg$^2$ deep layer in the Subaru Strategic Program over…

We test whether the population of "extreme" trans-Neptunian objects (eTNOs) detected in the Y4 Dark Energy Survey (DES) data exhibit azimuthal asymmetries which might be evidence of gravitational perturbations from an unseen super-Earth in…

We report the orbital distribution of the Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) discovered during the High Ecliptic Latitude (HiLat) extension of the Canada-France Ecliptic Plane Survey (CFEPS), conducted from June 2006 to July 2009. The HiLat…

We report the B band optical observations of an old (17.5 Myr) radiopulsar PSR B0950+08 obtained with the Suprime-Cam at the Subaru telescope. We detected a faint object, B=27.07(16). Within our astrometrical accuracy it coincides with the…

We present an analysis of survey observations targeting the leading L4 Jupiter Trojan cloud near opposition using the wide-field Suprime-Cam CCD camera on the 8.2 m Subaru Telescope. The survey covered about 38 deg$^2$ of sky and imaged 147…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-11 Ian Wong , Michael E. Brown

We present a comprehensive photometric study of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) by combining data from SDSS, Col-OSSOS, DES, and the recent Rubin First Look (RFL) data. Our database comprises 43 677 measurements in the u, g, r, i, and z…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-09 Milagros Colazo , Alvaro Alvarez-Candal

Bernstein et al. (2004) found that the population of faint (R>26) trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) known at that time was dominated by "Classical" objects, which have low inclinations (i<5 degrees) and distances 40--45 AU. Since those…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-28 David E. Trilling , Cesar I. Fuentes , Matthew J. Holman

The complex classification of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) that are captured in mean-motion resonances (MMRs) and the constraint of their multiple origins are two significant open problems concerning the Solar System. The case-by-case…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-13 Alan J. Alves-Carmo , Timothée Vaillant , Alexandre C. M. Correia

We search for stars with proper motions in a set of deep Subaru images, covering about 0.48 square degrees to a depth of $i' \simeq 26$, taken over a span of five and a half years. We follow the methods described in \citet{Richmond2009} to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Michael W. Richmond , Tomoki Morokuma , Mamoru Doi , Yutaka Komiyama , Naoki Yasuda , Sadanori Okamura

We present results for the short-term variability of Binary Trans-Neptunian Objects (BTNOs). We performed CCD photometric observations using the 3.58 m Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, the 1.5 m Sierra Nevada Observatory telescope, and the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-10 A. Thirouin , K. S. Noll , J. L. Ortiz , N. Morales

We use seven year's worth of observations from the Catalina Sky Survey and the Siding Spring Survey covering most of the northern and southern hemisphere at galactic latitudes higher than 20 degrees to search for serendipitously imaged…

The 5:3 and 7:4 mean motion resonances of Neptune are at 42.3 and 43.7 au, respectively, and overlap with objects in the Classical trans-neptunian belt (Kuiper belt). We report the complete/partial lightcurves of 13 and 14 trans-Neptunian…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-09 Audrey Thirouin , Scott S. Sheppard