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astro-ph.EP2025★ 8 cited

NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Observations of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1)

Colin Orion Chandler, Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Mario Jurić +305

We report on the observation and measurement of astrometry, photometry, morphology, and activityof the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, also designated C/2025 N1 (ATLAS) with the NSF-…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 30 cited

C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein): the nearly spherical cow of comets

Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Gary M. Bernstein, Benjamin T. Montet +64

C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) is a comet incoming from the Oort cloud which is remarkable in having the brightest (and presumably largest) nucleus of any well-measured com…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 64 cited

A search of the full six years of the Dark Energy Survey for outer Solar System objects

Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Gary M. Bernstein, Masao Sako +64

We present the results of a search for outer Solar System objects in the full six years of data (Y6) from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). The DES covered a contiguous deg…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 36 cited

Discovery and Physical Characterization of a Large Scattered Disk Object at 92 AU

David Gerdes, Masao Sako, Stephanie Hamilton +65

We report the observation and physical characterization of the possible dwarf planet \UZ\ ("DeeDee"), a dynamically detached trans-Neptunian object discovered at 92 AU. This object…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 27 cited

Observation of Two New L4 Neptune Trojans in the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Fields

D. W. Gerdes, R. J. Jennings, G. M. Bernstein +62

We report the discovery of the eighth and ninth known Trojans in stable orbits around Neptune's leading Lagrange point, L4. The objects 2014 QO and 2014 QP were det…