A Survey for Outer Satellites of Mars: Limits to Completeness

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2004-09-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0409522v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 figures (1 color), 2 Tables, to appear in AJ Nov. 2004

Scientific paper

10.1086/424541

We surveyed the Hill sphere of Mars for irregular satellites. Our search
covered nearly the entire Hill Sphere, but scattered light from Mars excluded
the inner few arcminutes where the satellites Phobos and Deimos reside. No new
satellites were found to an apparent limiting red magnitude of 23.5, which
corresponds to radii of about 0.09 km using an albedo of 0.07.

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