The Pan-STARRS 1 Discoveries of five new Neptune Trojans

In this work we report the detection of seven Neptune Trojans (NTs) in the Pan-STARRS 1 (PS1) survey. Five of these are new discoveries, consisting of four L4 Trojans and one L5 Trojan. Our orbital simulations show that the L5 Trojan stably librates for only several million years. This suggests that...

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Veröffentlicht in:	arXiv.org 2016-09
Hauptverfasser:	Hsing Wen Lin, Ying-Tung, Chen, Holman, Matthew J, Ip, Wing-Huen, Payne, M J, Lacerda, P, Fraser, W C, Gerdes, D W, Bieryla, A, Z -F Sie, W -P Chen, Burgett, W S, Denneau, L, Jedicke, R, Kaiser, N, Magnier, E A, Tonry, J L, Wainscoat, R J, Waters, C
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Inclination Neptune Outer solar system Physical properties Physics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Solar system Trojan orbits
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