5 papers
NEOWISE Studies of Asteroids with Sloan Photometry: Preliminary Results
A. Mainzer, J. Masiero, T. Grav +11
We have combined the NEOWISE and Sloan Digital Sky Survey data to study the albedos of 24,353 asteroids with candidate taxonomic classifications derived using Sloan photometry. We…
NEOWISE Studies of Spectrophotometrically Classified Asteroids: Preliminary Results
A. Mainzer, T. Grav, J. Masiero +10
The NEOWISE dataset offers the opportunity to study the variations in albedo for asteroid classification schemes based on visible and near-infrared observations for a large sample…
NEOWISE Observations of Near-Earth Objects: Preliminary Results
A. Mainzer, T. Grav, J. Bauer +34
With the NEOWISE portion of the \emph{Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer} (WISE) project, we have carried out a highly uniform survey of the near-Earth object (NEO) population at…
Preliminary Results from NEOWISE: An Enhancement to the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer for Solar System Science
A. Mainzer, J. Bauer, T. Grav +32
The \emph{Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer} has surveyed the entire sky at four infrared wavelengths with greatly improved sensitivity and spatial resolution compared to its pre…
Methane and Nitrogen Abundances On Pluto and Eris
S. C. Tegler, D. M. Cornelison, W. M. Grundy +8
We present spectra of Eris from the MMT 6.5 meter telescope and Red Channel Spectrograph (5700-9800 angstroms; 5 angstroms per pix) on Mt. Hopkins, AZ, and of Pluto from the Stewar…