4 papers
The shape and spin state of (275677) 2000 RS11 from ground-based radar and optical observations
Richard E. Cannon, Agata Rożek, Kaley Brauer +12
Near-Earth asteroid (275677) 2000 RS11 was observed over 5 days in March 2014 with both the Arecibo (2380 MHz, 12.6 cm) and Goldstone (8560 MHz, 3.5 cm) planetary radar systems. Th…
The Key to Unlocking Exoplanet Biosignatures: a UK-led IR Spectrograph for the Habitable Worlds Observatory Coronagraph
Beth Biller, Dan Dicken, Olivier Absil +13
The detection of life on rocky exoplanets in the habitable zones of nearby stars would be a paradigm-shifting advance, and it is one of the greatest scientific challenges of our ti…
On the Border: Searching for Cometary Activity Near the Centaur-JFC Transition Line
A. Fraser Gillan, Alan Fitzsimmons, Colin Orion Chandler +2
Current wide-field surveys discover ~15 Jupiter-family comets (JFCs) each year, typically identified via visual detection of a dust coma or tail. The same surveys also discover man…
An Overview of Exocomets
Daniela Iglesias, Isabel Rebollido, Azib Norazman +8
We give a general overview of what the scientific community refers to as "exocomets". The general definition of exocomets, as presented in this work, is discussed and compared with…