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20052026
most citedThe Pluto system: Initial results from its exploration by New Horizons

485 citations · 2.1k across the 37 of their papers we have counts for

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37 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

The Ultraviolet Spectrograph on ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer Mission (JUICE-UVS)

Kurt D. Retherford, Philippa M. Molyneux, Thomas K. Greathouse +51

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission, led by ESA, has an Ultraviolet Spectrograph (JUICE-UVS) contributed by NASA and built at Southwest Research Institute. JUICE-UVS is…

astro-ph.EP2024

Candidate Distant Trans-Neptunian Objects Detected by the New Horizons Subaru TNO Survey

Wesley C. Fraser, Simon B. Porter, Lowell Peltier +41

We report the detection of 239 trans-Neptunian Objects discovered through the on-going New Horizons survey for distant minor bodies being performed with the Hyper Suprime-Cam mosai…

astro-ph.EP2024

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…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 1 cited

Spatial Distribution of Ultraviolet Emission from Cometary Activity at 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

John W. Noonan, Dominique Bockelée-Morvan, Paul D. Feldman +16

The Alice ultraviolet spectrograph on board the \textit{Rosetta} orbiter provided the first near-nucleus ultraviolet observations of a cometary coma from arrival at comet 67P/Chury…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 8 cited

Analysis of Hybrid Gas-Dust Outbursts Observed at 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

John W. Noonan, Giovanna Rinaldi, Paul D. Feldman +14

Cometary outbursts offer a valuable window into the composition of comet nuclei with their forceful ejection of dust and volatiles in explosive events, revealing the interior compo…

astro-ph.IM2020

The Search for MeV Electrons 2-45 AU from the Sun with the Alice Instrument Microchannel Plate Detector Aboard New Horizons

B. A. Keeney, M. Versteeg, J. Wm. Parker +14

The Alice UV spectrograph aboard NASA's New Horizons mission is sensitive to MeV electrons that penetrate the instrument's thin aluminum housing and interact with its microchannel…