Trans-neptunian object (55636) 2002 TX300 a fresh icy surface in the outer solar system

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 457, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 329-333

  Licandro, J ^a,b   Di Fabrizio, L ^c   Pinilla Alonso, N ^c   De Leon J ^b   Oliva, E ^c  

^a ISAAC NEWTON GROUP OF TELESCOPES   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^c FUNDACIÓN GALILEO GALILEI INAF   (Spain)

Author keywords

Comets: general; Kuiper Belt; Minor planets, asteroids

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; CARBON; GALAXIES; SILICATES; SOLAR SYSTEM;

COMETS: GENERAL; KUIPER BELT; MINOR PLANETS, ASTEROIDS; ORGANIC MATERIALS;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 33749074257     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20064906     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. Andronico, G., Baratta, G., Spinella, F., & Strazzulla, G. 1987, A&A, 184, 333
2. Baffa, C., Comoretto, G., Gennari, S., et al. 2001, A&A, 378, 722
3. Barucci, M., Romon, J., Doressoundiram, A., & Tholen, D. 2000, AJ, 120, 496
4. Boehnhardt, H., Delsanti, A., Barucci, A., et al. 2002, A&A, 395, 297
5. Brown, M. 2002, Annu. Rev. Earth. Planet. Sci., 30, 307
6. Brown R., & Cruikshank, D. 1997, Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 25, 243
7. Brown, M., & Calvin, W. 2000, Science, 287, 107
8. Brown, R., Cruikshank, D., Pendleton, Y., & Veeder, G. 1997, Science, 276, 937
9. Brown, R., Cruikshank, D., & Pendleton, Y. 1999, ApJ, 519, L101
10. Brown, M., Trujillo, C., & Rabinowitz, D. 2005, ApJ, 635, 97
11. Buie, M., & Grundy, W. 2000, Icarus, 148, 324
12. Buie, M., Cruikshank, D., Lebofsky, L., & Tedesco, E. 1987, Nature, 329, 522
13. Colina, L., & Bohlin, R. 1997, AJ, 113, 1138
14. Cruikshank, D. 1998, in Solar System Ices, ed. B. Schmitt, et al. (Kluwer), 655
15. Davies, J., Green, S., McBride, N., et al. 2000, Icarus, 146, 253
16. de Bergh, C., Delsanti, A., Tozzi, et al. 2005, A&A, 437, 1115
17. Doressoundiram, A., Peixinho, N., Doucet, C., et al. 2005, Icarus, 74, 90
18. Dorschner, J., Begemann, B., Henning, Th., Jager, C., & Mutschke, H. 1995, A&A, 300, 503
19. Edgeworth, K. 1949, MNRAS, 109, 600
20. Fernández, J. 1980, MNRAS, 192, 481
21. Fornasier, S., Doressoundiram, A., Tozzi, G. P., et al. 2004a, A&A, 421, 353
22. Fornasier, S., Dotto, E., Barucci, M. A., Barbieri, C., A&A, 422, 43
23. Gil-Hutton, R. 2002, P&SS, 50, 57
24. Gil-Hutton, R., & Licandro, J. 2001, Icarus, 152, 246
25. Grundy, W., & Schmitt, B. 1988, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 809
26. Grundy, W., Noll, K., & Stephens, D. 2005, Icarus, 176, 184
27. Hainaut, O., & Delsanti, O. 2002, A&A, 389, 641
28. Hainaut, O., Delahodde, C., Boehnhardt, H., et al. 2000, A&A, 356, 1076
29. Jewitt, D., & Luu, J. 2001, AJ, 122, 2099
30. Jewitt, D., & Luu, J. 2004, Nature, 4432, 731
31. Johnson, R., Lanzerotti, L., & Brown, W. 1984, Adv. Space Res., 4, 41
32. Kouchi, A., & Koruda, T. 1990, Nature, 344, 134
33. Kuiper, G. 1951, in Astrophysics: A Topical Symposium, ed. J. A. Hynek (McGraw Hill: New York), 357
34. Landolt, A. 1992, AJ, 104, 340
35. Lazzarin, M., Barucci, M., Boehnhardt, H., et al. 2003, AJ, 125, 1554
36. Licandro, J., Oliva, E., & Di Martino, M. 2001, A&A, 373, L29
37. Licandro, J., Ghinassi, F., & Testi, L. 2002, A&A, 388, L9
38. Licandro, J., Pinilla-Alonso, N., Pedani, M., et al. 2006, A&A, 445, 35
39. Luu, J., Jewitt, D., & Trujillo 2000, ApJ, 531, L151
40. Marcialis, R., Rieke, G., & Lebofsky, L. 1987, Science, 237, 1349
41. McBride, N., Green, S., Davies, J., et al. 2003, Icarus, 161, 501
42. Moore, M., Donn, B., Khanna, R., & A'Hearn, M. 1983, Icarus, 54, 388
43. Oliva, E. 2001, Mem. SAIt. 71, 861 [arXiv:astro-ph/99109108]
44. Ortiz, J. L., Sota, A., Moreno, R., et al. 2003, A&A, 420, 383
45. Peixinho, N., Boehnhardt, H., Belskaya, I., et al. 2004, Icarus, 170, 153
46. Pinilla-Alonso, N., Licandro, J., & Campins, H. 2004, A&AS, DPS meeting 36, 11.07
47. Poulet, F., Cuzzi, J. N., Cruikshank, D., Roush, T., & Dalle Ore, C. 2002, Icarus, 160, 313
48. Pruppacher, H., Klett, J. 1996, Kluwer, Microphysics of Clouds and Precipitation (Academic Press, December 1996), 2nd Revision edition
49. Rickman, H., Fernández, J., & Gustafson, B. 1990, A&A, 237, 524
50. Rouleau, F., & Martin, P. 1991, ApJ, 377, 526
51. Roush, T., Cruikshank, D., Pollack, J., Young, E., & Bartolomew, M. 1996, Icarus, 119, 214
52. Sheppard, S., & Jewitt, D. 2003, E.M.&P 92, 2007
53. Shkuratov, Y., Starukhina, L., Hoffmann, H., & Arnold, G. 1999, Icarus, 137, 235
54. Stern, A. 2002, AJ, 124, 2297
55. Stevenson, D. 2004, Nature, 432, 681
56. Trujillo, C., Brown, M., Barkume, C., Challer, E., & Rabinowitz, D. 2006, ApJ, submitted, see http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0601618
57. Thompson, W., Murray, B., Khare, B., & Sagan, C. 1987, J. Geophys. Res., 92, 14933
58. Warren, S. G. 1986, Appl. Opt., 25, 2650