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We have started since 1997 the Meudon Multicolor Survey of Outer Solar System Objects with the aim of collecting a large and homogeneous set of color data for Trans-Neptunian and Centaurs objects [...] We have a combined sample of 52 B-R…

A second large programme (LP) for the physical studies of TNOs and Centaurs, started at ESO Cerro Paranal on October 2006 to obtain high-quality data, has recently been concluded. In this paper we present the spectra of these pristine…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Fornasier , M. A. Barucci , C. de Bergh , A. Alvarez-Candal , F. DeMeo , F. Merlin , D. Perna , A. Guilbert , A. Delsanti , E. Dotto , A. Doressoundiram

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…

Physical studies of asteroids depend on an availability of lightcurve data. Targets that are easy to observe and analyse naturally have more data available, so their synodic periods are confirmed from multiple sources. Also, thanks to…

The classical Kuiper belt contains objects both from a low-inclination, presumably primordial, distribution and from a high-inclination dynamically excited population. Based on a sample of classical TNOs with observations at thermal…

We present observations of thermal emission from fifteen transneptunian objects (TNOs) made using the Spitzer Space Telescope. Thirteen of the targets are members of the Classical population: six dynamically hot Classicals, five dynamically…

The Deep Ecliptic Survey (DES) discovered hundreds of Kuiper Belt objects from 1998-2005. Follow-up observations yielded 304 objects with good dynamical classifications (Classical, Scattered, Centaur, or 16 mean-motion resonances with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 E. R. Adams , A. A. S. Gulbis , J. L. Elliot , S. D. Benecchi , M. W. Buie , D. E. Trilling , L. H. Wasserman

Time series observations of the dwarf planet Haumea and the Plutinos 2003VS2 and 2003AZ84 with Herschel/PACS are presented in this work. Thermal emission of these trans-Neptunian objects were acquired as part of the TNOs are Cool Herschel…

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

We present the first comprehensive thermal and rotational analysis of the second most distant trans-Neptunian object (225088) 2007 OR10. We combined optical light curves provided by the Kepler space telescope -- K2 extended mission and…

We present long-term BVRI observations of 2010 WG9, an ~100-km diameter trans-Neptunian object (TNO) with an extremely high inclination of 70 deg discovered by the La Silla - QUEST southern sky survey. Most of the observations were obtained…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 David Rabinowitz , Megan E. Schwamb , Elena Hadjiyska , Suzanne Tourtellotte , Patricio Rojo

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

Both Centaurs and trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are minor bodies found in the outer Solar System. Centaurs are a transient population that moves between the orbits of Jupiter and Neptune, and they probably diffused out of the TNOs. TNOs…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-06 Mattia Galiazzo , Carlos de la Fuente Marcos , Raul de la Fuente Marcos , Giovanni Carraro , Michele Maris , Marco Montalto

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

After the work of Gladman et al. (1998), it is now assessed that many irregular satellites are orbiting around Uranus. Despite many studies have been performed in past years, very few is know for the light-curves of these objects and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michele Maris , Giovanni Carraro , M. Gabriela Parisi

Trans-Neptunian objects and Centaurs are small solar system bodies that reside in the outer parts of the solar system. These objects present photometric behaviours that are influenced due to a change in their aspect angle. Using absolute…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-08 Estela Fernández-Valenzuela

As part of our continuing study of light variability in proto-planetary nebulae (PPNe), we present the results from a long-term study of nine southern hemisphere objects. We have monitored their light variations over a nine-year interval…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-24 Bruce J. Hrivnak , Gary Henson , Todd C. Hillwig , Wenxian Lu , Matthew T. Bremer , David M. Vogl , Peyton J. Grimm , Sean M. Egan

Recently, Sheppard et al. (2016) presented the discovery of seven new trans-Neptunian objects with moderate eccentricities, perihelia beyond 40 AU, and semimajor axes beyond 50 AU. Like the few previously known objects on similar orbits,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-28 Nathan A. Kaib , Scott S. Sheppard