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most citedA ring system detected around the Centaur (10199) Chariklo

299 citations · 654 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.EP202016 cited

Interstellar comet 2I/Borisov as seen by MUSE: C, NH and red CN detections

Michele T. Bannister, Cyrielle Opitom, Alan Fitzsimmons +11

We report the clear detection of C and of abundant NH in the first prominently active interstellar comet, 2I/Borisov. We observed 2I on three nights in November 2019 at opt…

astro-ph.EP201994 cited

2I/Borisov: A C depleted interstellar comet

C. Opitom, A. Fitzsimmons, E. Jehin +9

The discovery of the first active interstellar object 2I/Borisov provides an unprecedented opportunity to study planetary formation processes in another planetary system. In partic…

astro-ph.EP201986 cited

Detection of CN gas in Interstellar Object 2I/Borisov

Alan Fitzsimmons, Olivier Hainaut, Karen Meech +8

The detection of Interstellar Objects passing through the Solar System offers the promise of constraining the physical and chemical processes involved in planetary formation in oth…

astro-ph.EP201947 cited

Pluto's lower atmosphere and pressure evolution from ground-based stellar occultations, 1988-2016

E. Meza, B. Sicardy, M. Assafin +167

Context. Pluto's tenuous nitrogen (N2) atmosphere undergoes strong seasonal effects due to high obliquity and orbital eccentricity, and has been recently (July 2015) observed by th…

astro-ph.EP201948 cited

High resolution optical spectroscopy of the -rich comet C/2016 R2 (PanSTARRS)

C. Opitom, D. Hutsemékers, E. Jehin +6

Early observations of comet C/2016 R2 (PanSTARRS) have shown that the composition of this comet is very peculiar. We obtained high resolution spectra of the comet in February when…

astro-ph.EP201628 cited

The perihelion activity of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as seen by robotic telescopes

Colin Snodgrass, Cyrielle Opitom, Miguel de Val-Borro +13

Around the time of its perihelion passage the observability of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from Earth was limited to very short windows each morning from any given site, due to the l…