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

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astro-ph.EP2024

Observations of Uranus at High Phase Angle as Seen by New Horizons

Samantha N. Hasler, L. C. Mayorga, William M. Grundy +14

We present flux measurements of Uranus observed at phase angles of 43.9°, 44.0°, and 52.4° by the Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) on the New Horizons spacecraft during…

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★ 8 cited

The Discovery and Evolution of a Possible New Epoch of Cometary Activity by the Centaur (2060) Chiron

Matthew M. Dobson, Megan E. Schwamb, Alan Fitzsimmons +24

Centaurs are small Solar System objects on chaotic orbits in the giant planet region, forming an evolutionary continuum with the Kuiper belt objects and Jupiter-family comets. Some…

astro-ph.GA2024

New Synoptic Observations of the Cosmic Optical Background with New Horizons

Marc Postman, Tod R. Lauer, Joel W. Parker +11

We obtained New Horizons LORRI images to measure the cosmic optical background (COB) intensity integrated over The survey comprises 16 high Galac…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 8 cited

A deep analysis for New Horizons' KBO search images

Fumi Yoshida, Toshifumi Yanagisawa, Takashi Ito +8

Observation datasets acquired by the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) on the Subaru Telescope for NASA's New Horizons mission target search were analyzed through a method devised by JAXA. T…

astro-ph.EP2024

Detection of Close Kuiper Belt Binaries with HST WFC3

Simon B. Porter, Susan D. Benecchi, Anne J. Verbiscer +3

Binaries in the Kuiper Belt are common. Here we present our analysis of the Solar System Origins Legacy Survey (SSOLS) to show that using a PSF-fitting method can roughly double th…