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Rotation and Mutual Eclipse Events Season in the Kuiper Belt: (524366) 2001 XR
Audrey Thirouin, William M. Grundy, Scott S. Sheppard +3
(524366) 2001 XR is a dynamically Cold Classical Kuiper Belt Object that is a nearly equal-sized wide binary whose upcoming mutual events season makes it a particularly val…
Photometry of Kuiper belt objects in inner and outer mean motion resonances with Neptune
Audrey Thirouin, Scott S. Sheppard
We present a time-resolved photometric survey of Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) trapped in the inner and outer Neptune resonances. Lightcurves and rotational properties provide constra…
You Only Stack Once (YOSO): A Motion-Filtered, Deep-Learning Framework for Detecting Faint Moving Sources
Nitya Pandey, César Fuentes, Pedro Bernardinelli +15
We present You Only Stack Once (YOSO), an automated pipeline designed to detect faint, slow-moving Solar System objects in wide-field astronomical surveys. The pipeline integrates…
Evaluating an Embryo Origin for Detached TNOs within Full Kuiper Belt Formation Models
Nathan A. Kaib, Chadwick A. Trujillo, Scott S. Sheppard
With perihelia well beyond Neptune, but semimajor axes and eccentricities indicative of substantial perturbation, the origins of detached trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) remain a dy…
Logos-Zoe: A contact binary triple system in the trans-neptunian belt
Audrey Thirouin, Keith S. Noll, William M. Grundy +3
The trans-neptunian object (58534) 1997 CQ (a.k.a. Logos) is a resolved wide binary in the dynamically Cold Classical population. With Hubble Space Telescope resolved observ…
The Volatile Composition and Activity Evolution of Main-Belt Comet 358P/PANSTARRS
Henry H. Hsieh, John W. Noonan, Michael S. P. Kelley +17
We report the detection of water vapor associated with main-belt comet 358P/PANSTARRS on UT 2024 January 8-9 using the NIRSPEC instrument aboard JWST. We derive a water production…
The DECam Ecliptic Exploration Project (DEEP). VII. The Strengths of Three Superfast Rotating Main-belt Asteroids from a Preliminary Search of DEEP Data
Ryder Strauss, Andrew McNeill, David E. Trilling +19
Superfast rotators (SFRs) are small solar system objects that rotate faster than generally possible for a cohesionless rubble pile. Their rotational characteristics allow us to mak…
The New Horizons Extended Mission Target: Arrokoth Search and Discovery
Marc W. Buie, John R. Spencer, Simon B. Porter +37
Following the Pluto fly-by of the New Horizons spacecraft, the mission provided a unique opportunity to explore the Kuiper Belt in-situ. The possibility existed to fly-by a Kuiper…
Rotational Study of 5:3 and 7:4 Resonant Objects within the Main Classical Trans-Neptunian Belt
Audrey Thirouin, Scott S. Sheppard
The 5:3 and 7:4 mean motion resonances of Neptune are at 42.3 and 43.7 au, respectively, and overlap with objects in the Classical trans-neptunian belt (Kuiper belt). We report the…