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Context: Accurate measurements of diameters of trans-Neptunian objects are extremely complicated to obtain. Thermal modeling can provide good results, but accurate absolute magnitudes are needed to constrain the thermal models and derive…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 A. Alvarez-Candal , N. Pinilla-Alonso , J. L. Ortiz , R. Duffard , N. Morales , P. Santos-Sanz , A. Thirouin , J. S. Silva

The study of the surface properties of Centaurs and Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) provides essential information about the early conditions and evolution of the outer Solar System. Due to the faintness of most of these distant and icy…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-15 D. Perna , M. A. Barucci , S. Fornasier , F. E. DeMeo , A. Alvarez-Candal , F. Merlin , E. Dotto , A. Doressoundiram , C. de Bergh

We present a visible multi-band photometry of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) observed by the Subaru Telescope in the framework of Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP) from March in 2014 to September in 2016. We measured the…

The largest trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) represent an extremely diverse collection of primitive bodies in the outer solar system. The community typically refers to these objects as dwarf planets, though the IAU acknowledges only four TNOs…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-30 Noemí Pinilla-Alonso , John Stansberry , Bryan Holler

The trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are small Solar System bodies at large distances from the Sun. As such, their physical properties are difficult to measure. Accurate determination of their physical parameters is essential to model and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 C. Ayala-Loera , A. Alvarez-Candal , J. L. Ortiz , R. Duffard , E. Fernández-Valenzuela , P. Santos-Sanz , N. Morales

The goal of this work is to determine the physical characteristics of resonant, detached and scattered disk objects in the transneptunian region, observed mainly in the framework of the "TNOs are Cool!" Herschel Open Time Key Program. Based…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 A. Farkas-Takács , Cs. Kiss , E. Vilenius , G. Marton , T. G. Müller , M. Mommert , J. Stansberry , E. Lellouch , P. Lacerda , A. Pál

There is a complex inclination structure present in the transneptunian object (TNO) orbital distribution in the main classical belt region (between orbital semimajor axes of 39 and 48 au). The long-term gravitational effects of the giant…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-13 Yukun Huang , Brett Gladman , Kathryn Volk

Properties, structure, and thermal evolution of neutron stars are determined by the equation of state of stellar matter. Recent data on isospin-diffusion and isoscaling in heavy-ion collisions at intermediate energies as well as the size of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Plamen G. Krastev , Bao-An Li , Aaron Worley

Images of the Kuiper belt object (126719) 2002 CC249 obtained in 2016 and 2017 using the 6.5m Magellan-Baade Telescope and the 4.3m Discovery Channel Telescope are presented. A lightcurve with a periodicity of 11.87+/-0.01 h and a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 Audrey Thirouin , Scott S. Sheppard

Here we present the results of visible range light curve observations of ten Centaurs using the Kepler Space Telescope in the framework of the K2 mission. Well defined periodic light curves are obtained in six cases allowing us to derive…

We present a measurement of H2O ice crystallinity on the surface of trans-neptunian objects (TNOs) with near-infrared narrow-band imaging. The newly developed photometric technique allows us to efficiently determine the strength of an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Tsuyoshi Terai , Yoichi Itoh , Yumiko Oasa , Reiko Furusho , Junichi Watanabe

We present the methods and results from the discovery and photometric measurement of 26 bright (VR $>$ 24 trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) during the first year (2019-20) of the DECam Ecliptic Exploration Project (DEEP). The DEEP survey is an…

Hubble Space Telescope observations of Uranus- and Neptune-crossing object (65489) Ceto/Phorcys (provisionally designated 2003 FX128) reveal it to be a close binary system. The mutual orbit has a period of 9.554 +/- 0.011 days and a…

We present the results of our Thousand Asteroid Light Curve Survey (TALCS) conducted with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in September 2006. Our untargeted survey detected 828 Main Belt asteroids to a limiting magnitude of g'~22.5…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Joseph Masiero , Robert Jedicke , Josef Durech , Stephen Gwyn , Larry Denneau , Jeff Larsen

Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are among the most ancient bodies of the solar system. Understanding their physical properties is key to constraining their origin and the evolution of the outer regions beyond Neptune. Stellar occultations…

We present Hubble Space Telescope observations of six binary transneptunian systems: 2000 QL251, 2003 TJ58, 2001 XR254, 1999 OJ4, (134860) 2000 OJ67, and 2004 PB108. The mutual orbits of these systems are found to have periods ranging from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. M. Grundy , K. S. Noll , M. W. Buie , S. D. Benecchi , D. C. Stephens , H. F. Levison

Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are among the most primitive remnants of the early Solar System, and constraining their sizes, shapes, albedos, and surface properties is essential for understanding their origin and evolution. Stellar…

The orbital evolution of more than 22000 Jupiter-crossing objects under the gravitational influence of planets was investigated. We found that the mean collision probabilities of Jupiter-crossing objects (from initial orbits close to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. I. Ipatov , J. C. Mather

Dynamical features of a massive disk of distant trans-Neptunian objects are considered in the model of the formation of small bodies in the Hill region of a giant gas-dust clump that arose as a result of gravitational instability and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-06 V. V. Emel'yanenko

Recent stellar occultations have allowed accurate instantaneous size and apparent shape determinations of the large Kuiper belt object (50000)~Quaoar and the detection of two rings with spatially variable optical depths. In this paper we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-22 C. Kiss , T. G. Müller , G. Marton , R. Szakáts , A. Pál , L. Molnár , E. Vilenius , M. Rengel , J. L. Ortiz , E. Fernández-Valenzuela