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20162026
most citedNear-infrared colors of minor planets recovered from VISTA - VHS survey (MOVIS)

64 citations · 297 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

Reliability of Zodiacal Background Models at Small Solar Elongations

Csaba Kiss, Thomas G. Müller, Javier Licandro +6

Present models of the zodiacal light (scattered sunlight from interplanetary dust in the visible) and zodiacal emission (thermal emission in the mid-infrared) are primarily constra…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 4 cited

Characterization of of (98943) 2001 CC, the target of Hayabusa2

Marcel M. Popescu, Eri Tatsumi, Javier Licandro +11

The near-Earth asteroid (98943) Torifune, previously designated 2001 CC, is the flyby target of the Hayabusa2 extended mission, nicknamed Hayabusa2 (SHARP: Small Hazardo…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 8 cited

Pre-perihelion Monitoring of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov

George P. Prodan, Marcel Popescu, Javier Licandro +11

The discovery of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov offered the unique opportunity to obtain a detailed analysis of an object coming from another planetary system, and leaving behind ma…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 1 cited

Photometry of the Didymos system across the DART impact apparition

Nicholas Moskovitz, Cristina Thomas, Petr Pravec +78

On 26 September 2022, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft impacted Dimorphos, the satellite of binary near-Earth asteroid (65803) Didymos. This demonstrated the…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 13 cited

Observations of two super fast rotator NEAs: 2021 NY and 2022 AB

J. Licandro, M. Popescu, E. Tatsumi +5

In the framework of the Visible NEAs Observations Survey (ViNOS) that uses several telescopes at the Canary Islands observatories since 2018, we observed two super fast rotator NEA…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 17 cited

Bennu's global surface and two candidate sample sites characterized by spectral clustering of OSIRIS-REx multispectral images

J. L. Rizos, J. de Leon, J. Licandro +9

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft encountered the asteroid (101955) Bennu on December 3, 2018, and has since acquired extensive data from the payload of scientific instruments on board. In…