3 papers
astro-ph.EP2020
Size and Shape Constraints of (486958) Arrokoth from Stellar Occultations
Marc W. Buie, Simon B. Porter, Peter Tamblyn +130
We present the results from four stellar occultations by (486958) Arrokoth, the flyby target of the New Horizons extended mission. Three of the four efforts led to positive detecti…
astro-ph.GA2017
GalRotpy: an educational tool to understand and parametrize the rotation curve and gravitational potential of disk-like galaxies
Andrés Granados, Daniel Torres, Leonardo Castañeda +2
\textbf{GalRotpy} is an educational \verb+Python3+-based visual tool, which is useful to undestand how is the contribution of each mass component to the gravitational potential of…
physics.pop-ph2015
Measuring the speed of light and the moon distance with an occultation of Mars by the Moon: a Citizen Astronomy Campaign
Jorge I. Zuluaga, Juan C. Figueroa, Jonathan Moncada +10
In July 5th 2014 an occultation of Mars by the Moon was visible in South America. Citizen scientists and professional astronomers in Colombia, Venezuela and Chile performed a set o…