The size, shape, density and ring of the dwarf planet Haumea from a stellar occultation

JL Ortiz, P Santos-Sanz, B Sicardy, G Benedetti-Rossi… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Haumea—one of the four known trans-Neptunian dwarf planets—is a very elongated and
rapidly rotating body,,. In contrast to other dwarf planets,,, its size, shape, albedo and density …

Stellar occultations by trans-Neptunian objects

B Sicardy, F Braga-Ribas, MW Buie, JL Ortiz… - The Astronomy and …, 2024 - Springer
Stellar occultations provide a powerful tool to explore objects of the outer solar system. The
Gaia mission now provides milli-arcsec accuracy on the predictions of these events and …

Differential aperture photometry and digital coronagraphy with PRAIA

M Assafin - Planetary and Space Science, 2023 - Elsevier
PRAIA–Package for the Reduction of Astronomical Images Automatically–is a suite of
photometric and astrometric tasks designed to cope with huge amounts of heterogeneous …

Constraints on (2060) Chiron's size, shape, and surrounding material from the November 2018 and September 2019 stellar occultations

F Braga-Ribas, CL Pereira, B Sicardy, JL Ortiz… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. After the discovery of rings around the largest known Centaur object,(10199)
Chariklo, we carried out observation campaigns of stellar occultations produced by the …

Beyond Point Masses. II. Non-Keplerian Shape Effects Are Detectable in Several TNO Binaries

BCN Proudfoot, DA Ragozzine… - The Astronomical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract About 40 trans-Neptunian binaries (TNBs) have fully determined orbits with about
10 others being solved except for breaking the mirror ambiguity. Despite decades of study …

Astrometry with PRAIA

M Assafin - Planetary and Space Science, 2023 - Elsevier
PRAIA–Package for the Reduction of Astronomical Images Automatically–is a suite of
astrometric and photometric tasks designed to cope with huge amounts of heterogeneous …

Size and shape of Chariklo from multi-epoch stellar occultations

R Leiva, B Sicardy, JIB Camargo, JL Ortiz… - The Astronomical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We use data from five stellar occultations observed between 2013 and 2016 to constrain
Chariklo's size and shape, and the ring reflectivity. We consider four possible models for …

The mutual orbit, mass, and density of transneptunian binary Gǃkúnǁ'hòmdímà (229762 2007 UK126)

WM Grundy, KS Noll, MW Buie, SD Benecchi… - Icarus, 2019 - Elsevier
We present high spatial resolution images of the binary transneptunian object
Gǃkúnǁ'hòmdímà (229762 2007 UK 126) obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope and …

Study of the Plutino Object (208996) 2003 AZ84 from Stellar occultations: size, shape, and topographic features

A Dias-Oliveira, B Sicardy, JL Ortiz… - The Astronomical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present results derived from four stellar occultations by the plutino object (208996) 2003
AZ 84, detected on 2011 January 8 (single-chord event), 2012 February 3 (multi-chord) …

Physical properties of the trans-Neptunian object (38628) Huya from a multi-chord stellar occultation

P Santos-Sanz, JL Ortiz, B Sicardy, M Popescu… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. As part of our international program aimed at obtaining accurate physical properties
of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), we predicted a stellar occultation by the TNO (38628) …