4 papers
Formation of Planetesimals in the Outer Solar System
Anders Johansen, Michele T. Bannister, Luke Dones +4
The Solar System hosts the most studied and best understood major and minor planetary bodies - and the only extraterrestrial bodies to have been visited by spacecraft. The Solar Sy…
A Demonstration of Interstellar Navigation Using New Horizons
Tod R. Lauer, David H. Munro, John R. Spencer +51
As NASA's New Horizons spacecraft exits the Solar System bound for interstellar space, it has traveled so far that the nearest stars have shifted markedly from their positions seen…
The Lyman alpha Sky as Observed by New Horizons
G. R. Gladstone, J. M. Shull, W. R. Pryor +22
During September 2023 the Alice ultraviolet spectrograph on the New Horizons (NH) spacecraft was used to map diffuse Lyman alpha (Lya) emission over most of the sky, at a range of…
High-Resolution Observations of Pickup Ion Mediated Shocks to 60 au
Bishwas L. Shrestha, David J. McComas, Eric J. Zirnstein +10
This study provides a detailed analysis of fourteen distant interplanetary shocks observed by the Solar Wind Around Pluto (SWAP) instrument onboard New Horizons. These shocks were…