The Pluto System After New Horizons

SA Stern, WM Grundy, WB McKinnon… - Annual Review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The New Horizons (NH) flyby of the Pluto–Charon binary planet and its system of four small
surrounding satellites in mid-2015 revolutionized our knowledge of this distant planet and its …

An accurate, extensive, and practical line list of methane for the HITEMP database

RJ Hargreaves, IE Gordon, M Rey… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
A methane line list for the HITEMP spectroscopic database, covering 0–13,400 cm− 1 (> 746
nm), is presented. To create this compilation, ab initio line lists of 12 CH 4 from Rey et al …

Atmospheric escape processes and planetary atmospheric evolution

G Gronoff, P Arras, S Baraka, JM Bell… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The habitability of the surface of any planet is determined by a complex evolution of its
interior, surface, and atmosphere. The electromagnetic and particle radiation of stars drive …

Mass loss by atmospheric escape from extremely close-in planets

TT Koskinen, P Lavvas, C Huang… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We explore atmospheric escape from close-in exoplanets with the highest mass-loss rates.
First, we locate the transition from stellar X-ray and UV-driven escape to rapid Roche lobe …

New Horizons observations of the atmosphere of Pluto

GR Gladstone, LA Young - Annual Review of Earth and …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
New Horizons data provide a snapshot of the current state of Pluto's atmosphere. Winds are
slow and mostly controlled by sublimation of surface ices. Molecular nitrogen is the primary …

Measurement of D/H and 13C/12C ratios in methane ice on Eris and Makemake: evidence for internal activity

WM Grundy, I Wong, CR Glein, S Protopapa, BJ Holler… - Icarus, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract James Webb Space Telescope's NIRSpec infrared imaging spectrometer observed
the outer solar system dwarf planets Eris and Makemake in reflected sunlight at wavelengths …

On the origin & thermal stability of Arrokoth's and Pluto's ices

CM Lisse, LA Young, DP Cruikshank, SA Sandford… - Icarus, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper we discuss in a thermodynamic, geologically empirical way the long-term
nature of the stable majority ices that could be present in Kuiper Belt object (KBO) 2014 MU …

Pluto's haze as a surface material

WM Grundy, T Bertrand, RP Binzel, MW Buie, BJ Buratti… - Icarus, 2018 - Elsevier
Pluto's atmospheric haze settles out rapidly compared with geological timescales. It needs to
be accounted for as a surface material, distinct from Pluto's icy bedrock and from the volatile …

Haze heats Pluto's atmosphere yet explains its cold temperature

X Zhang, DF Strobel, H Imanaka - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Pluto's atmosphere is cold and hazy,,. Recent observations have shown it to be much colder
than predicted theoretically, suggesting an unknown cooling mechanism. Atmospheric gas …

Constraints on the structure and seasonal variations of Triton's atmosphere from the 5 October 2017 stellar occultation and previous observations

JM Oliveira, B Sicardy, AR Gomes-Júnior… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. A stellar occultation by Neptune's main satellite, Triton, was observed on 5 October
2017 from Europe, North Africa, and the USA. We derived 90 light curves from this event, 42 …