Size and shape constraints of (486958) Arrokoth from stellar occultations

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

Publikováno v: The Astronomical Journal
The Astronomical Journal, American Astronomical Society, 2020, 159 (4), pp.130. ⟨10.3847/1538-3881/ab6ced⟩
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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

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

Autor: Marc W. Buie, Simon B. Porter, Peter Tamblyn, Dirk Terrell, Alex Harrison Parker, David Baratoux, Maram Kaire, Rodrigo Leiva, Anne J. Verbiscer, Amanda M. Zangari, François Colas, Baidy Demba Diop, Joseph I. Samaniego, Lawrence H. Wasserman, Susan D. Benecchi, Amir Caspi, Stephen Gwyn, J. J. Kavelaars, Adriana C. Ocampo Uría, Jorge Rabassa

Publikováno v: Astronomical Journal; Apr2020, Vol. 159 Issue 4, p1-1, 1p