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astro-ph.EP2015★ 73 cited

Campaign 9 of the Mission: Observational Parameters, Scientific Drivers, and Community Involvement for a Simultaneous Space- and Ground-based Microlensing Survey

Calen B. Henderson, Radosław Poleski, Matthew Penny +118

's Campaign 9 (C9) will conduct a 3.7 deg survey toward the Galactic bulge from 7/April through 1/July of 2016 that will leverage the spatial separation between…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 485 cited

The Pluto system: Initial results from its exploration by New Horizons

S. A. Stern, F. Bagenal, K. Ennico +148

The Pluto system was recently explored by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, making closest approach on 14 July 2015. Pluto's surface displays diverse landforms, terrain ages, albedos…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 56 cited

16 Years of Ulysses Interstellar Dust Measurements in the Solar System: I. Mass Distribution and Gas-to-Dust Mass Ratio

Harald Krüger, Peter Strub, Eberhard Gruen +1

In the early 1990s, contemporary interstellar dust (ISD) penetrating deep into the heliosphere was identified with the in-situ dust detector on board the Ulysses spacecraft. Betwee…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 22 cited

Solar Wind at 33 AU: Setting Bounds on the Pluto Interaction for New Horizons

F. Bagenal, P. A. Delamere, H. A. Elliott +7

The NASA New Horizons spacecraft flies past Pluto on July 14, 2015, carrying two instruments that detect charged particles. Pluto has a tenuous, extended atmosphere that is escapin…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 113 cited

High-altitude gravity waves in the Martian thermosphere observed by MAVEN/NGIMS and modeled by a gravity wave scheme

Erdal Yiğit, Scott L. England, Guiping Liu +4

First high-altitude observations of gravity wave (GW)-induced CO density perturbations in the Martian thermosphere retrieved from NASA's NGIMS instrument on board the MAVEN sat…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 43 cited

On the surface composition of Triton's southern latitudes

B. J. Holler, L. A. Young, W. M. Grundy +1

We present the results of an investigation to determine the longitudinal (zonal) distributions and temporal evolution of ices on the surface of Triton. Between 2002 and 2014, we ob…

astro-ph.EP2015

The crucial role of HST during the NASA Juno mission: a "Juno initiative"

Denis Grodent, Bertrand Bonfond, Jean-Claude Gérard +5

In 2016, the NASA Juno spacecraft will initiate its one-year mission around Jupiter and become the first probe to explore the polar regions of Jupiter. The HST UV instruments (STIS…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 42 cited

Dynamics of cloud features on Uranus

Lawrence Sromovsky, Patrick Fry

Near-infrared adaptive optics imaging of Uranus by the Keck 2 telescope during 2003 and 2004 has revealed numerous discrete cloud features, 70 of which were used to extend the zona…