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低倾角经典柯伊伯带天体的高反照率

High Albedos of Low Inclination Classical Kuiper Belt Objects

M. J. Brucker, W. M. Grundy, J. A. Stansberry, J. R. Spencer, S. S. Sheppard, E. I. Chiang, M. W. Buie

摘要:

我们目前的观察,从15 transneptunian对象(TNO)使用斯皮策太空望远镜。其中13个目标是经典天体群的成员:6个动态热经典天体、5个动态冷经典天体和2个动态冷内部经典柯伊伯带天体(KBO)。我们使用热模型来确定我们的目标的大小和反射率,发现冷的经典TNO比热的经典和其他TNO动力学类具有明显更高的视觉反射率。已知冷经典在颜色分布、尺寸分布和二进制分数方面与其他TNO不同。我们样本中的古典物体都是红色的,但它们显示出不同的颜色,这表明颜色和颜色之间没有简单的关系。由于高日冕度,冷的经典柯伊伯带的质量估计从大约0.01地球质量减少到大约0.001地球质量。我们的研究结果还显着增加了样本的小经典KBO已知的dos和大小从21到32这样的对象。

英文摘要:

We present observations of thermal emission from fifteen transneptunian objects (TNOs) made using the Spitzer Space Telescope. Thirteen of the targets are members of the Classical population: six dynamically hot Classicals, five dynamically cold Classicals, and two dynamically cold inner Classical Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs). We fit our observations using thermal models to determine the sizes and albedos of our targets finding that the cold Classical TNOs have distinctly higher visual albedos than the hot Classicals and other TNO dynamical classes. The cold Classicals are known to be distinct from other TNOs in terms of their color distribution, size distribution, and binarity fraction. The Classical objects in our sample all have red colors yet they show a diversity of albedos which suggests that there is not a simple relationship between albedo and color. As a consequence of high albedos, the mass estimate of the cold Classical Kuiper Belt is reduced from approximately 0.01 Earth masses to approximately 0.001 Earth masses. Our results also increase significantly the sample of small Classical KBOs with known albedos and sizes from 21 to 32 such objects.

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