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most citedThe Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III

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astro-ph.EP2016★ 28 cited

Results from a triple chord stellar occultation and far-infrared photometry of the trans-Neptunian object (229762) 2007 UK126

Karsten Schindler, Jürgen Wolf, Jerry Bardecker +8

A stellar occultation by a trans-Neptunian object (TNO) provides an opportunity to probe its size and shape. Very few occultations by TNOs have been sampled simultaneously from mul…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 17 cited

Very Low-Mass Stellar and Substellar Companions to Solar-like Stars From MARVELS VI: A Giant Planet and a Brown Dwarf Candidate in a Close Binary System HD 87646

Bo Ma, Jian Ge, Alex Wolszczan +34

We report the detections of a giant planet (MARVELS-7b) and a brown dwarf candidate (MARVELS-7c) around the primary star in the close binary system, HD 87646. It is the first close…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 38 cited

Results from the 2014 November 15th multi-chord stellar occultation by the TNO (229762) 2007 UK

Gustavo Benedetti-Rossi, Bruno Sicardy, Marc W. Buie +26

We present results derived from the first multi-chord stellar occultation by the trans-Neptunian object (229762) 2007 UK, observed on 2014 November 15. The event was observ…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 9 cited

New orbits of irregular satellites designed for the predictions of stellar occultations up to 2020, based on thousands of new observations

A. R. Gomes-Júnior, M. Assafin, L. Beauvalet +5

Gomes-Júnior et al. (2015) published 3613 positions for the 8 largest irregular satellites of Jupiter and 1787 positions for the largest irregular satellite of Saturn, Phoebe. Thes…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 87 cited

Pluto's atmosphere from the 29 June 2015 ground-based stellar occultation at the time of the New Horizons flyby

B. Sicardy, J. Talbot, E. Meza +65

We present results from a multi-chord Pluto stellar occultation observed on 29 June 2015 from New Zealand and Australia. This occurred only two weeks before the NASA New Horizons f…