Computer Science
Scientific paper
Oct 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011epsc.conf.1326f&link_type=abstract
EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.1326
Computer Science
Scientific paper
Here we present the observations of the centaurs and low-perihelion Kuiper belt objects targeted by the H/WTSOSS survey. With the multi-colour spectrophotometry, we show how the surfaces of Centaurs clearly divide into two unique compositional classes, each of which exhibits correlated optical and NIR colours. We show how this bifurcation continues into low-perihelia scattered disk and resonant objects. We discuss possible causes of the observed colours and show how the colours are best explained by an intimate mixture of a neutral and red component, the neutral component of which is common between both classes. Using the presented observations along with available albedos measurements, we constrain possible candidate materials for the neutral component. Likely candidates include silicate materials observed on the irregular satellites of the gas-giants and the Jupiter Trojans.
Batygin Konstantin
Brown Michael E.
Fraser Wesley Christopher
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