Observation of two new L4 Neptune Trojans in the Dark Energy Survey supernova fields

We report the discovery of the eighth and ninth known Trojans in stable orbits around Neptune’s leading Lagrange point, L4. The objects 2014QO441 and 2014QP441 were detected in data obtained during the 2013–14 and 2014–15 observing seasons by the Dark Energy Survey, using the Dark Energy Camera (D...

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Autores: Gerdes, David W., Jennings, R. J., Bernstein, Gary M., Sako, Masao, Adams, Fred, Goldstein, Daniel Abraham, Kessler, Richard S., Hamilton, S., Abbott, Timothy M. C., Abdalla, Filipe B., Allam, Sahar S., Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien, Bertin, Emmanuel, Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth, Burke, David Lyle, Capozzi, Diego, Carnero Rosell, Aurelio, Carrasco Kind, Matías, Carretero Palacios, Jorge, Cunha, Carlos Eduardo, D'Andrea, Christopher B., Costa, Luiz N. da, DePoy, Darren L., Desai, S., Dietrich, Jörg P., Doel, Peter, Eifler, Tim, Fausti Neto, Angelo, Flaugher, Brenna, Frieman, Joshua A., Gaztañaga, Enrique, Gruen, Daniel, Gruendl, Robert A., Gutierrez, Gaston R., Honscheid, K., James, David J., Kuehn, Kyler, Kuropatkin, Nikolay P., Lahav, Ofer, Li, T. S., Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba, March, Marisa Cristina, Martini, Paul, Miller, Christopher J., Miquel, Ramon, Nichol, Robert C., Nord, Brian Dennis, Ogando, Ricardo L.C., Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro, Romer, Anita K., Roodman, Aaron, Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio, Santiago, Basilio Xavier, Schubnell, Michael, Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio, Smith, Robert Christopher, Soares-Santos, Marcelle, Sobreira, Flávia, Suchyta, Eric, Swanson, Molly E. C., Tarle, Gregory, Thaler, Jon J., Walker, Alistair, Wester, William Carl, Zhang, Yuanyuan, DES Collaboration
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da UFRGS
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:www.lume.ufrgs.br:10183/141547
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10183/141547
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Asteroides
Sistema solar
Fotometria astronômica
Minor planets
Asteroids: general
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Sumario:We report the discovery of the eighth and ninth known Trojans in stable orbits around Neptune’s leading Lagrange point, L4. The objects 2014QO441 and 2014QP441 were detected in data obtained during the 2013–14 and 2014–15 observing seasons by the Dark Energy Survey, using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the 4-m Blanco telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. Both are in high-inclination orbits (18°.8 and 19°.4, respectively). With an eccentricity of 0.104, 2014QO441 has the most eccentric orbit of the 11 known stable Neptune Trojans. Here we describe the search procedure and investigate the objects’ long-term dynamical stability and physical properties.

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