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We present the faintest mid ecliptic latitude survey in the second part of HST archival search for outer Solar System bodies. We report the discovery of 28 new trans-Neptunian objects and 1 small centaur (R ~ 2km) in the band 5{\circ} -…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Cesar I. Fuentes , David E. Trilling , Matthew J. Holman

We have searched 101 Classical transneptunian objects for companions with the Hubble Space Telescope. Of these, at least 21 are binary. The heliocentric inclinations of the objects we observed range from 0.6-34 degrees. We find a very…

We have analyzed a homogeneous set of observations of eighty-one transneptunian objects obtained with the NIC2 camera on the Hubble Space Telescope with the goal of identifying partially resolved binaries. Using PSF-fitting we have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 D. C. Stephens , K. S. Noll

Discovery of transneptunian object (TNO) satellites and determination of their orbits has recently enabled estimation of the size and albedo of several small TNOs, extending the size range of objects having known size and albedo down into…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. M. Grundy , K. S. Noll , D. C. Stephens

We present a pipeline for searching for trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) using data from the TESS mission, that includes a novel optimization-based framework for subtracting the effects of scattered light and pointing jitter. The background…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Varun Ganapathi

We report on the serendipitous observations of Solar System objects imaged during the High cadence Transient Survey (HiTS) 2014 observation campaign. Data from this high cadence, wide field survey was originally analyzed for finding…

We present results of 6 years of observations, reduced and analyzed with the same tools in a systematic way. We report completely new data for 15 objects, for 5 objects we present a new analysis of previously published results plus…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Thirouin , J. L. Ortiz , R. Duffard , P. Santos-Sanz , F. J. Aceituno , N. Morales

Physical characterization of Trans-Neptunian objects, a primitive population of the outer solar system, may provide constraints on their formation and evolution. The goal of this work is to characterize a set of 15 scattered disk (SDOs) and…

We present the first set of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) observed on multiple nights in data taken from the DECam Ecliptic Exploration Project (DEEP). Of these 110 TNOs, 105 do not coincide with previously known TNOs and appear to be new…

Context: The discovery of distant trans-Neptunian objects has led to heated discussions about the structure of the outer Solar System. Aims: We study the dynamical evolution of small bodies from the Hill regions of migrating giant gaseous…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 V. V. Emel'yanenko

We present new optical reflectance spectra of three potentially silicate-rich trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs). These spectra were obtained with the aim of confirming past hints and detections of 0.7 micron absorption features associated with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-22 Tom Seccull , Wesley C. Fraser , Dominik A. Kiersz , Thomas H. Puzia

Context: Trans-Neptunian objects are distant bodies that retain valuable information about the origin and evolution of the Solar System. Many of these objects constitute binary systems. Studying binaries allows us to further characterise…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-22 J. M. Gómez-Limón , R. Leiva , J. L. Ortiz , P. Santos-Sanz , M. Kretlow , Y. Kilic , J. L. Rizos , A. Álvarez-Candal , T. G. Müller

The dynamically cold component of the Kuiper Belt is host to a population of very widely separated, near-equal mass binary systems. Such binaries, representing the tail of the separation distribution of the more common, more tightly-bound…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-04 Alex H. Parker

We report the discovery of the first trans-neptunian object, designated 2004 XR190, with a nearly-cirular orbit beyond the 2:1 mean-motion resonance. Fitting an orbit to 23 astrometric observations spread out over 12 months yields an orbit…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. L. Allen , B. Gladman , J. J. Kavelaars , J-M. Petite , J. Wm. Parker , P. Nicholson

We present a method to identify distant solar system objects in long-term wide-field asteroid survey data, and conduct a search for them in the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) image data acquired from 2010 to mid-2015. We demonstrate that our method is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-19 R. J. Weryk , E. Lilly , S. Chastel , L. Denneau , R. Jedicke , E. Magnier , R. J. Wainscoat , K. Chambers , H. Flewelling , M. E. Huber , C. Waters , the PS1 Builders

We report the statistical detection (at the >99% confidence level) of a population of 28th magnitude objects exhibiting proper motions of ~1 arcsecond per hour at quadrature in deep HST/WFPC2 images. The drift directions imply a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Anita L. Cochran , Harold F. Levison , S. Alan Stern , Martin J. Duncan

Asymmetric debris discs have been found around stars other than the Sun; asymmetries are sometimes attributed to perturbations induced by unseen planets. The presence or absence of asymmetries in our own trans-Neptunian belt remains…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-01 C. de la Fuente Marcos , R. de la Fuente Marcos

We present optical colors of 72 transneptunian objects (TNOs), and infrared colors of 80 TNOs obtained with the WFPC2 and NICMOS instruments, respectively, on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Both optical and infrared colors are available…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 S. D. Benecchi , K. S. Noll , D. C. Stephens , W. M. Grundy , J. Rawlins

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…

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