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Resonant Kuiper belt objects: a review [PDF]
Geoscience Letters, 2019 Our understanding of the history of the solar system has undergone a revolution in recent years, owing to new theoretical insights into the origin of Pluto and the discovery of the Kuiper belt and its rich dynamical structure.
Renu Malhotra
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Endogenically sourced volatiles on Charon and other Kuiper belt objects [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2022 We show cryovolcanic eruptions released sufficient methane to source volatile products on Charon. Irradiated methane products are found on other Kuiper belt objects, so endogenically sourced volatiles could be important across the Kuiper belt.
Stephanie M. Menten +2 more
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Machine Learning Classification of Kuiper Belt Populations. [PDF]
Mon Not R Astron Soc, 2020 ABSTRACT In the outer Solar system, the Kuiper belt contains dynamical subpopulations sculpted by a combination of planet formation and migration and gravitational perturbations from the present-day giant planet configuration. The subdivision of observed Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) into different dynamical classes is based on their ...
Smullen RA, Volk K.
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The formation of Haumea and its family via binary merging [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2022 Formation of the Haumea family, the only collisional group of icy bodies in the Kuiper Belt, is debated. Here, the authors show that Haumea family can be explained as a results of binary merging near the end of Neptune’s orbital migration.
Benjamin Proudfoot, Darin Ragozzine
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IR Kuiper Belt Constraints [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 1998 We compute the temperature and IR signal of particles of radius $a$ and albedo $\alpha$ at heliocentric distance $R$, taking into account the emissivity effect, and give an interpolating formula for the result. We compare with analyses of COBE DIRBE data
Dohnanyi J. S. +8 more
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A Measurement of the Kuiper Belt’s Mean Plane From Objects Classified By Machine Learning
The Astronomical Journal, 2023 Mean plane measurements of the Kuiper Belt from observational data are of interest for their potential to test dynamical models of the solar system. Recent measurements have yielded inconsistent results.
Ian Matheson, Renu Malhotra
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Kuiper Belt Occultation Predictions [PDF]
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2013 Here we present observations of 7 large Kuiper Belt Objects. From these observations, we extract a point source catalog with $\sim0.01"$ precision, and astrometry of our target Kuiper Belt Objects with $0.04-0.08"$ precision within that catalog. We have developed a new technique to predict the future occurrence of stellar occultations by Kuiper Belt ...
Fraser, Wesley C. +15 more
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Is There an Earth-like Planet in the Distant Kuiper Belt?
The Astronomical Journal, 2023 The orbits of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) can indicate the existence of an undiscovered planet in the outer solar system. Here we used N -body computer simulations to investigate the effects of a hypothetical Kuiper Belt planet (KBP) on the orbital ...
Patryk Sofia Lykawka, Takashi Ito
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Colors of Inner Disk Classical Kuiper Belt Objects [PDF]
, 2010 We present new optical broadband colors, obtained with the Keck 1 and Vatican Advanced Technology telescopes, for six objects in the inner classical Kuiper Belt.
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, 2020 Chapter to be published in the book "The Trans-Neptunian Solar System" (D. Prialnik, M.A. Barucci and L. Young, eds.).
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