The zwicky transient facility: science objectives

MJ Graham, SR Kulkarni, EC Bellm… - Publications of the …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a public–private enterprise, is a new time-
domain survey employing a dedicated camera on the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt telescope …

The compositions of Kuiper belt objects

ME Brown - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Objects in the Kuiper belt are difficult to study in detail, even with the best telescopes
available. Therefore, for many years, studies of the compositions of these objects were …

Solar system physics for exoplanet research

J Horner, SR Kane, JP Marshall… - Publications of the …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the past three decades, we have witnessed one of the great revolutions in our
understanding of the cosmos—the dawn of the Exoplanet Era. Where once we knew of just …

Lucy mission to the Trojan asteroids: science goals

HF Levison, CB Olkin, KS Noll, S Marchi… - The Planetary …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Lucy Mission is a NASA Discovery-class mission to send a highly capable and
robust spacecraft to investigate seven primitive bodies near both the L 4 and L 5 Lagrange …

Initial characterization of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov

P Guzik, M Drahus, K Rusek, W Waniak… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Interstellar comets penetrating through the Solar System had been anticipated for decades,.
The discovery of asteroidal-looking 'Oumuamua, was thus a huge surprise and a puzzle …

The operational environment and rotational acceleration of asteroid (101955) Bennu from OSIRIS-REx observations

CW Hergenrother, CK Maleszewski, MC Nolan… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
During its approach to asteroid (101955) Bennu, NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation,
Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft surveyed …

Color systematics of comets and related bodies

D Jewitt - The Astronomical Journal, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Most comets are volatile-rich bodies that have recently entered the inner solar system
following long-term storage in the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud reservoirs. These reservoirs …

Thermophysical evolution of planetesimals in the primordial disc

BJR Davidsson - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The primordial disc of small icy planetesimals, once located at 15–from the Sun, was
disrupted by giant planet migration in the early Solar system. The primordial disc thereby …

An improved model for interplanetary dust fluxes in the outer Solar System

AR Poppe - Icarus, 2016 - Elsevier
We present an improved model for interplanetary dust grain fluxes in the outer Solar System
constrained by in situ dust density observations. A dynamical dust grain tracing code is used …

STIS coronagraphic imaging of Fomalhaut: Main belt structure and the orbit of Fomalhaut b

P Kalas, JR Graham, MP Fitzgerald… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We present new optical coronagraphic data of Fomalhaut obtained with HST/STIS in 2010
and 2012. Fomalhaut b is recovered at both epochs to high significance. The observations …