A Survey for Satellites of Venus

Details A Survey for Satellites of Venus A Survey for Satellites of Venus

2009-06-15

arxiv.org/abs/0906.2781v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

Published in July 2009 (Sheppard, S. and Trujillo, C. 2009, Icarus, 202, 12-16.)

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We present a systematic survey for satellites of Venus using the Baade-Magellan 6.5 meter telescope and IMACS wide-field CCD imager at Las Campanas observatory in Chile. In the outer portions of the Hill sphere the search was sensitive to a limiting red magnitude of about 20.4, which corresponds to satellites with radii of a few hundred meters when assuming an albedo of 0.1. In the very inner portions of the Hill sphere scattered light from Venus limited the detection to satellites of about a kilometer or larger. Although several main belt asteroids were found, no satellites (moons) of Venus were detected.

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