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most citedThe Pluto system: Initial results from its exploration by New Horizons

485 citations · 702 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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eess.SY2022★ 27 cited

Comparison of Deep Space Navigation Using Optical Imaging, Pulsar Time-of-Arrival Tracking, and/or Radiometric Tracking

Todd Ely, Shyam Bhaskaran, Nicholas Bradley +2

Recent advances with space navigation technologies developed by NASA in space-based atomic clocks and pulsar X-ray navigation combined with past successes in autonomous navigation…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 9 cited

Advancing the Scientific Frontier with Increasingly Autonomous Systems

Rashied Amini, Abigail Azari, Shyam Bhaskaran +19

A close partnership between people and partially autonomous machines has enabled decades of space exploration. But to further expand our horizons, our systems must become more capa…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 175 cited

Initial results from the New Horizons exploration of 2014 MU69, a small Kuiper Belt Object

S. A. Stern, H. A. Weaver, J. R. Spencer +202

The Kuiper Belt is a distant region of the Solar System. On 1 January 2019, the New Horizons spacecraft flew close to (486958) 2014 MU69, a Cold Classical Kuiper Belt Object, a cla…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 6 cited

Solar System Ephemerides, Pulsar Timing, Gravitational Waves, and Navigation

T. Joseph W. Lazio, S. Bhaskaran, C. Cutler +6

In-spiraling supermassive black holes should emit gravitational waves, which would produce characteristic distortions in the time of arrival residuals from millisecond pulsars. Mul…

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…