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most citedThe Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package

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astro-ph.EP2015★ 24 cited

Physical properties of the planetary systems WASP-45 and WASP-46 from simultaneous multi-band photometry

S. Ciceri, L. Mancini, J. Southworth +45

Accurate measurements of the physical characteristics of a large number of exoplanets are useful to strongly constrain theoretical models of planet formation and evolution, which l…

astro-ph.EP2015

Revisit of rotational dynamics of Asteroid 4179 Toutatis from Chang'e-2's flyby

Yuhui Zhao, Shoucun Hu, Jianghui Ji

This paper presents analysis of the rotational parameters of Toutatis based on the observational results from Chang'e-2's close flyby. The 3-D shape model derived from ground-based…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 1 cited

Thermophysical Characteristics of OSIRIS-REx Target Asteroid (101955) Bennu

LiangLiang Yu, Jianghui Ji

In this work, we investigate the thermophysical properties, including thermal inertia, roughness fraction and surface grain size of OSIRIS-REx target asteroid (101955) Bennu by usi…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 10 cited

Chang'e-2 spacecraft observations of asteroid 4179 Toutatis

Jianghui Ji, Yun Jiang, Yuhui Zhao +2

On 13 December 2012, Chang'e-2 completed a successful flyby of the near-Earth asteroid 4179 Toutatis at a closest distance of 770 meters from the asteroid's surface. The observatio…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 33 cited

Boulders on asteroid Toutatis as observed by Chang'e-2

Yun Jiang, Jianghui Ji, Jiangchuan Huang +3

Boulders are ubiquitously found on the surfaces of small rocky bodies in the inner solar system and their spatial and size distributions give insight into the geological evolution…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 31 cited

Kinetic Alfvén turbulence below and above ion-cyclotron frequency

J. S. Zhao, Y. M. Voitenko, D. J. Wu +1

Alfvénic turbulent cascade perpendicular and parallel to the background magnetic field is studied accounting for anisotropic dispersive effects and turbulent intermittency. The per…