Size and Shape Constraints of (486958) Arrokoth from Stellar Occultations

Autor: Buie, Marc W., Porter, Simon B., Tamblyn, Peter, Terrell, Dirk, Parker, Alex Harrison, Baratoux, David, Kaire, Maram, Leiva, Rodrigo, Verbiscer, Anne J., Zangari, Amanda M., Colas, François, Diop, Baïdy Demba, Samaniego, Joseph I., Wasserman, Lawrence H., Benecchi, Susan D., Caspi, Amir, Gwyn, Stephen, Kavelaars, J. J., Uría, Adriana C. Ocampo, Rabassa, Jorge, Skrutskie, M. F., Soto, Alejandro, Tanga, Paolo, Young, Eliot F., Stern, S. Alan, Andersen, Bridget C., Pérez, Mauricio E. Arango, Arredondo, Anicia, Artola, Rodolfo Alfredo, Bâ, Abdoulaye, Ballet, Romuald, Blank, Ted, Bop, Cheikh Tidiane, Bosh, Amanda S., López, Matías Aarón Camino, Carter, Christian M., Castro-Chacón, J. H., Desprez, Alfonso Caycedo, Guerra, Nicolás Caycedo, Conard, Steven J., Dauvergne, Jean-Luc, Dean, Bryan, Dean, Michelle, Desmars, Josselin, Dieng, Abdou Lahat, Dieng, Mame Diarra Bousso, Diouf, Omar, Dorego, Gualbert Séraphin, Dunham, David W., Dunham, Joan, Luca, Hugo A. Durantini, Edwards, Patrick, Erasmus, Nicolas, Faye, Gayane, Faye, Mactar, Ferrario, Lucas Ezequiel, Ferrell, Chelsea L., Finley, Tiffany J., Fraser, Wesley C., Friedli, Alison J., Serna, Julián Galvez, Garcia-Migani, Esteban A., Genade, Anja, Getrost, Kai, Gil-Hutton, Ricardo A., Gimeno, German N., Golub, Eli Joseph, Murillo, Giovanni Francisco González, Grusin, Michael D., Gurovich, Sebastian, Hanna, William H., Henn, Santiago M., Hinton, P. C., Hughes, Paul J., Josephs Jr, John David, Joya, Raul, Kammer, Joshua A., Keeney, Brian A., Keller, John M., Kramer, Emily A., Levine, Stephen E., Lisse, Carey M., Lovell, Amy J., Mackie, Jason A., Makarchuk, Stanislav, Manzano, Luis E., Mbaye, Salma Sylla, Mbaye, Modou, Melia, Raul Roberto, Moreno, Freddy, Moss, Sean K., Ndaiye, Diene, Ndiaye, Mapathe, Nelson, Matthew J., Olkin, Catherine B., Olsen, Aart M., Moreno, Victor Jonathan Ospina, Pasachoff, Jay M., Pereyra, Mariana Belen, Person, Michael J., Pinzón, Giovanni, Pulver, Eduardo Alejandro, Quintero, Edwin A., Regester, Jeffrey R., Resnick, Aaron Caleb, Reyes-Ruiz, Mauricio, Rolfsmeier, Alex D., Ruhland, Trina R., Salmon, Julien, Santos-Sanz, Pablo, Santucho, Marcos Ariel, Niño, Diana Karina Sepúlveda, Sickafoose, Amanda A., Silva, José S., Singer, Kelsi N., Skipper, Joy N., Slivan, Stephen M., Smith, Rose J. C., Spagnotto, Julio C., Stephens, Andrew W., Strabala, Samuel D., Tamayo, Francisco J., Throop, Henry B., Cañas, Andrés David Torres, Toure, Labaly, Traore, Alassane, Tsang, Constantine C. C., Turner, Jake D., Vanegas, Santiago, Venable, Roger, Wilson, John C., Zuluaga, Carlos A., Zuluaga, Jorge I.

Publikováno v: The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 159, Issue 4, 130 (27pp); 2020 April

We present the results from four stellar occultations by (486958) Arrokoth, the flyby target of the New Horizons extended mission. Three of the four efforts led to positive detections of the body, and all constrained the presence of rings and other d

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00125