5 papers
Size, shape, density, and atmospheric limit of (50000) Quaoar revealed from 14 years of stellar occultation
Giuliano Margoti, Felipe Braga-Ribas, José Luis Ortiz +173
We present results from 28 stellar occultations by the large Trans-Neptunian Object (50000) Quaoar registered between 2018 and 2025. By performing a joint analysis of this occultat…
JWST occultation reveals unforeseen complexity in Chariklo's ring system
Pablo Santos-Sanz, Altair R. Gomes-Júnior, Bruno E. Morgado +25
Ring systems have been discovered around several small bodies in the outer Solar System through stellar occultations. While such measurements provide key information about ring geo…
Rings around irregular bodies I. Structure of the resonance mesh, applications to Chariklo, Haumea and Quaoar
Bruno Sicardy, Heikki Salo, Maryame El Moutamid +2
Three ring systems have been discovered to date around small irregular objects of the solar system (Chariklo, Haumea and Quaoar). For the three bodies, material is observed near th…
Cometary Observations in Light-Polluted Environments: A case study of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov
Josep M. Trigo-RodrÃguez, Damya Souami, Maria Gritsevich +2
Comets and asteroids have long captured human curiosity, and until recently, all documented examples belonged to our Solar System. That changed with the discovery of the first know…
Origins of rings in the solar system
Bruno Sicardy, Maryame El Moutamid, Stefan Renner +2
Until about a decade ago, ring systems were only known to exist around giant planets. Each one of the four giant planets harbours its own distinctive and unique system of rings and…