Astrometry and Occultation Predictions to Trans-Neptunian and Centaur Objects Observed within the Dark Energy Survey
Abstract
Transneptunian objects (TNOs) are a source of invaluable information to access the history and evolution of the outer solar system. However, observing these faint objects is a difficult task. As a consequence, important properties such as size and albedo are known for only a small fraction of them. Now, with the results from deep sky surveys and the Gaia space mission, a new exciting era is within reach as accurate predictions of stellar occultations by numerous distant small solar system bodies become available. From them, diameters with kilometer accuracies can be determined. Albedos, in turn, can be obtained from diameters and absolute magnitudes. We use observations from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) from November 2012 until February 2016, amounting to 4292847 CCD frames. We searched them for all known small solar system bodies and recovered a total of 202 TNOs and Centaurs, 63 of which have been discovered by the DES collaboration until the date of this writing. Their positions were determined using the Gaia Data Release 2 as reference and their orbits were refined. Stellar occultations were then predicted using these refined orbits plus stellar positions from Gaia. These predictions are maintained, and updated, in a dedicated web service.more »
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- Research Org.:
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
- Contributing Org.:
- DES Collaboration
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1508031
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1502987; OSTI ID: 1503975; OSTI ID: 1728571
- Report Number(s):
- arXiv:1811.10724; FERMILAB-PUB-18-494
Journal ID: ISSN 1538-3881; 1725803
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359; SC0019193; AC02-76SF00515; AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- The Astronomical Journal (Online)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 157; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 1538-3881
- Publisher:
- IOP Publishing - AAAS
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; astrometry; ephemerides; Kuiper belt: general; occultations; surveys
Citation Formats
Banda-Huarca, M. V., Camargo, J. I. B., Desmars, J., Ogando, R. L. C., Vieira-Martins, R., Assafin, M., Costa, L. N. da, Bernstein, G. M., Carrasco Kind, M., Drlica-Wagner, A., Gomes, R., Gysi, M. M., Braga-Ribas, F., Maia, M. A. G., Gerdes, D. W., Hamilton, S., Wester, W., Abbott, T. M. C., Abdalla, F. B., Allam, S., Avila, S., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D. L., Carnero Rosell, A., Carretero, J., Cunha, C. E., Davis, C., Vicente, J. De, Diehl, H. T., Doel, P., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hartley, W. G., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Menanteau, F., Miller, C. J., Miquel, R., Plazas, A. A., Romer, A. K., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Sobreira, F., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., and Tarle, G. Astrometry and Occultation Predictions to Trans-Neptunian and Centaur Objects Observed within the Dark Energy Survey. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/aafb37.
Banda-Huarca, M. V., Camargo, J. I. B., Desmars, J., Ogando, R. L. C., Vieira-Martins, R., Assafin, M., Costa, L. N. da, Bernstein, G. M., Carrasco Kind, M., Drlica-Wagner, A., Gomes, R., Gysi, M. M., Braga-Ribas, F., Maia, M. A. G., Gerdes, D. W., Hamilton, S., Wester, W., Abbott, T. M. C., Abdalla, F. B., Allam, S., Avila, S., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D. L., Carnero Rosell, A., Carretero, J., Cunha, C. E., Davis, C., Vicente, J. De, Diehl, H. T., Doel, P., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hartley, W. G., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Menanteau, F., Miller, C. J., Miquel, R., Plazas, A. A., Romer, A. K., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Sobreira, F., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., & Tarle, G. Astrometry and Occultation Predictions to Trans-Neptunian and Centaur Objects Observed within the Dark Energy Survey. United States. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aafb37
Banda-Huarca, M. V., Camargo, J. I. B., Desmars, J., Ogando, R. L. C., Vieira-Martins, R., Assafin, M., Costa, L. N. da, Bernstein, G. M., Carrasco Kind, M., Drlica-Wagner, A., Gomes, R., Gysi, M. M., Braga-Ribas, F., Maia, M. A. G., Gerdes, D. W., Hamilton, S., Wester, W., Abbott, T. M. C., Abdalla, F. B., Allam, S., Avila, S., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D. L., Carnero Rosell, A., Carretero, J., Cunha, C. E., Davis, C., Vicente, J. De, Diehl, H. T., Doel, P., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hartley, W. G., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Menanteau, F., Miller, C. J., Miquel, R., Plazas, A. A., Romer, A. K., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Sobreira, F., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., and Tarle, G. 2019.
"Astrometry and Occultation Predictions to Trans-Neptunian and Centaur Objects Observed within the Dark Energy Survey". United States. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aafb37. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1508031.
@article{osti_1508031,
title = {Astrometry and Occultation Predictions to Trans-Neptunian and Centaur Objects Observed within the Dark Energy Survey},
author = {Banda-Huarca, M. V. and Camargo, J. I. B. and Desmars, J. and Ogando, R. L. C. and Vieira-Martins, R. and Assafin, M. and Costa, L. N. da and Bernstein, G. M. and Carrasco Kind, M. and Drlica-Wagner, A. and Gomes, R. and Gysi, M. M. and Braga-Ribas, F. and Maia, M. A. G. and Gerdes, D. W. and Hamilton, S. and Wester, W. and Abbott, T. M. C. and Abdalla, F. B. and Allam, S. and Avila, S. and Bertin, E. and Brooks, D. and Buckley-Geer, E. and Burke, D. L. and Carnero Rosell, A. and Carretero, J. and Cunha, C. E. and Davis, C. and Vicente, J. De and Diehl, H. T. and Doel, P. and Fosalba, P. and Frieman, J. and García-Bellido, J. and Gaztanaga, E. and Gruen, D. and Gruendl, R. A. and Gschwend, J. and Gutierrez, G. and Hartley, W. G. and Hollowood, D. L. and Honscheid, K. and James, D. J. and Kuehn, K. and Kuropatkin, N. and Menanteau, F. and Miller, C. J. and Miquel, R. and Plazas, A. A. and Romer, A. K. and Sanchez, E. and Scarpine, V. and Schubnell, M. and Serrano, S. and Sevilla-Noarbe, I. and Smith, M. and Soares-Santos, M. and Sobreira, F. and Suchyta, E. and Swanson, M. E. C. and Tarle, G.},
abstractNote = {Transneptunian objects (TNOs) are a source of invaluable information to access the history and evolution of the outer solar system. However, observing these faint objects is a difficult task. As a consequence, important properties such as size and albedo are known for only a small fraction of them. Now, with the results from deep sky surveys and the Gaia space mission, a new exciting era is within reach as accurate predictions of stellar occultations by numerous distant small solar system bodies become available. From them, diameters with kilometer accuracies can be determined. Albedos, in turn, can be obtained from diameters and absolute magnitudes. We use observations from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) from November 2012 until February 2016, amounting to 4292847 CCD frames. We searched them for all known small solar system bodies and recovered a total of 202 TNOs and Centaurs, 63 of which have been discovered by the DES collaboration until the date of this writing. Their positions were determined using the Gaia Data Release 2 as reference and their orbits were refined. Stellar occultations were then predicted using these refined orbits plus stellar positions from Gaia. These predictions are maintained, and updated, in a dedicated web service. The techniques developed here are also part of an ambitious preparation to use the data from the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), that expects to obtain accurate positions and multifilter photometry for tens of thousands of TNOs.},
doi = {10.3847/1538-3881/aafb37},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1508031},
journal = {The Astronomical Journal (Online)},
issn = {1538-3881},
number = 3,
volume = 157,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Fri Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2019}
}
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