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

485 citations · 5.5k across the 98 of their papers we have counts for

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100 papers

astro-ph.EP2023★ 1 cited

The Properties and Origins of Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth's Large Mounds

S. A. Stern, O. L. White, Wm. Grundy +10

We report on a study of the mounds that dominate the appearance of Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) (486958) Arrokoth's larger lobe, named Wenu. We compare the geological context of these…

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…

astro-ph.EP2021

The Dark Side of Pluto

Tod R. Lauer, John R. Spencer, Tanguy Bertrand +12

During its departure from Pluto, New Horizons used its LORRI camera to image a portion of Pluto's southern hemisphere that was in a decades-long seasonal winter darkness, but still…