Mauna Kea Trojan Survey and Statistical Studies of L4 Trojans

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Jul 1997

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American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #29, #25.08; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 29, p.1020

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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We present a survey for Trojan objects conducted on the UH 2.2 m telescope using a 8192 x 8192 pixel charge-coupled device (CCD) mosaic. In this survey, 20 deg(2) of sky were covered to limiting magnitude V = 22.7(m) . Ninety-three Jovian Trojans with size ranging from about 4 km to 40 km diameter were discovered. The cumulative magnitude-frequency distribution is found to have slope of 0.397 +/- 0.008. The bias corrected mean inclination is 13.7deg +/- 0.5deg . The total number of L4 Trojans is estimated at (3.0 +/- 0.5) x 10(4) (diameter >= 4 km). The size and total mass of the L4 Trojan cloud are discussed. No "Trojans" of Saturn, Uranus or Neptune were discovered. We will discuss the upper limits to the surface densities of these objects.

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