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20022023
most citedThe Pluto system: Initial results from its exploration by New Horizons

485 citations · 4.6k across the 87 of their papers we have counts for

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88 papers

astro-ph.EP2023★ 26 cited

Moderate D/H Ratios in Methane Ice on Eris and Makemake as Evidence of Hydrothermal or Metamorphic Processes in Their Interiors: Geochemical Analysis

Christopher R. Glein, William M. Grundy, Jonathan I. Lunine +7

Dwarf planets Eris and Makemake have surfaces bearing methane ice of unknown origin. D/H ratios were recently determined from James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations of Eris…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 4 cited

Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of Lucy Mission Targets with the Hubble Space Telescope

Oriel A. Humes, Cristina A. Thomas, Joshua P. Emery +1

The recently launched Lucy mission aims to understand the dynamical history of the Solar System by examining the Jupiter Trojans, a population of primitive asteroids co-orbital wit…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 29 cited

Large-scale cryovolcanic resurfacing on Pluto

Kelsi N. Singer, Oliver L. White, Bernard Schmitt +22

The New Horizons spacecraft returned images and compositional data showing that terrains on Pluto span a variety of ages, ranging from relatively ancient, heavily cratered areas to…

astro-ph.EP2022

A Predicted Dearth of Majority Hypervolatile Ices in Oort Cloud Comets

C. M. Lisse, G. R. Gladstone, L. A. Young +30

We present new, ice species-specific New Horizons/Alice upper gas coma production limits from the 01 Jan 2019 MU69/Arrokoth flyby of Gladstone et al. (2021) and use them to make pr…

astro-ph.EP2022

A Near Surface Temperature Model of Arrokoth

O. M. Umurhan, W. M. Grundy, M. K. Bird +19

A near surface thermal model for Arrokoth is developed based on the recently released facet model of the body. This thermal solution takes into account Arrokoth's surface re…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 82 cited

Anomalous Flux in the Cosmic Optical Background Detected With New Horizons Observations

Tod R. Lauer, Marc Postman, John R. Spencer +27

We used New Horizons LORRI images to measure the optical-band () sky brightness within a high galactic-latitude field selected to have reduced diffu…