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The Castalia Mission to Main Belt Comet 133P/Elst-Pizarro
C. Snodgrass, G. H. Jones, H. Boehnhardt +41
We describe Castalia, a proposed mission to rendezvous with a Main Belt Comet (MBC), 133P/Elst-Pizarro. MBCs are a recently discovered population of apparently icy bodies within th…
An Extensive Grid of Models Producing Extreme Horizontal Branch Stars
Ofer Yaron, Dina Prialnik, Attay Kovetz +1
Horizontal branch (HB) morphology is a complex multiple-parameter problem. Besides the metallicity, two other leading parameters are the mass loss rate (MLR) and the initial He abu…
H-Atmospheres of Icy Super-Earths Formed in situ in the Outer Solar System: An Application to a Possible Planet Nine
Amit Levi, Scott J. Kenyon, Morris Podolak +1
We examine the possibility that icy super-Earth mass planets, formed over long time scales (0.1--1~Gyr) at large distances ( 200--1000~AU) from their host stars, will develop…
A Hubble Space Telescope Survey for Novae in M87. II. Snuffing out the Maximum Magnitude - Rate of Decline Relation for Novae as a Non-Standard Candle, and a Prediction of the Existence of Ultrafast Novae
Michael M. Shara, Trisha Doyle, Tod R. Lauer +9
The extensive grid of numerical simulations of nova eruptions of Yaron et al.(2005) first predicted that some classical novae might deviate significantly from the Maximum Magnitude…
A Hubble Space Telescope survey for novae in M87. III. Are novae good standard candles 15 days after maximum brightness?
Michael M. Shara, Trisha F. Doyle, Ashley Pagnotta +13
Ten weeks of daily imaging of the giant elliptical galaxy M87 with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has yielded 41 nova light curves of unprecedented quality for extragalactic cata…