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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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The Astrophysical Journal, 2004 When a main sequence star evolves into a red giant and its Kuiper Belt Object's (KBO's) reach a temperature of about 170 K, the dust released during the rapid ice-sublimation of these cometary bodies may lead to a detectable infrared excess at 25 microns, depending upon the mass of the KBO's.
M. Jura
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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 Kuiper Belt and Olbers's Paradox [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2001 4 pages and 2 figures; submitted to Astrophysical Journal ...
Scott J. Kenyon, Rogier A. Windhorst
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INCLINATION MIXING IN THE CLASSICAL KUIPER BELT [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2011 We investigate the long-term evolution of the inclinations of the known classical and resonant Kuiper belt objects (KBOs). This is partially motivated by the observed bimodal inclination distribution and by the putative physical differences between the low- and high-inclination populations.
Kathryn Volk, 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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Binaries in the Kuiper Belt [PDF]
, 2007 Binaries have played a crucial role many times in the history of modern astronomy and are doing so again in the rapidly evolving exploration of the Kuiper Belt. The large fraction of transneptunian objects that are binary or multiple, 48 such systems are now known, has been an unanticipated windfall.
Keith Noll +4 more
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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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Photometric Survey of Neptune's Trojan Asteroids. I. The Color Distribution
The Planetary Science Journal, 2023 In 2018, Jewitt identified the “The Trojan Color Conundrum,” namely that Neptune's Trojan asteroids (NTs) had no ultrared members, unlike the the nearby Kuiper Belt.
Larissa Markwardt +3 more
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The Plane of the Kuiper Belt [PDF]
, 2004 We present a robust method for measuring the effective plane of the Kuiper belt. The derived plane has an inclination with respect to the ecliptic of 1º.86 and an ascending node of 81º.6, with a 1 σ error in pole position of the plane of 0º.37. The plane
Brown, Michael E., Pan, Margaret
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