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20002007
most citedA low density of 0.8 g/cc for the Trojan binary asteroid 617 Patroclus

119 citations · 332 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

astro-ph2007

Resolving the Multiple Outflows in the Egg Nebula with Keck II Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics

D. Le Mignant, R. Sahai, A. Bouchez +10

The Egg Nebula has been regarded as the archetype of bipolar proto-planetary nebulae, yet we lack a coherent model that can explain the morphology and kinematics of the nebular and…

astro-ph2006★ 119 cited

A low density of 0.8 g/cc for the Trojan binary asteroid 617 Patroclus

Franck Marchis, Daniel Hestroffer, Pascal Descamps +15

The Trojan population consists of two swarms of asteroids following the same orbit as Jupiter and located at the L4 and L5 Lagrange points of the Jupiter-Sun system (leading and fo…

astro-ph2005★ 118 cited

Satellites of the largest Kuiper belt objects

M. E. Brown, M. A. van Dam, A. H. Bouchez +12

We have searched the four brightest objects in the Kuiper belt for the presence of satellites using the newly commissioned Keck Observatory Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics system.…

astro-ph2005★ 35 cited

Merging Galaxies in Goods-s: First Extragalactic Results from Keck Laser Adaptive Optics

J. Melbourne, S. A. Wright, M. Barczys +15

The Center for Adaptive Optics Treasury Survey (CATS) aims to combine deep HST images in the optical with deep Keck adaptive optics (AO) data in the near-infrared (NIR) to study di…

astro-ph2000★ 60 cited

Keck Diffraction-Limited Imaging of the Young Quadruple Star System HD 98800

L. Prato, A. M. Ghez, R. K. Pina +6

This paper presents diffraction-limited 1-18 micron images of the young quadruple star system HD 98800 obtained with the W. M. Keck 10-m telescopes using speckle and adaptive optic…