Triton stellar occultation candidates Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. McDonald S.W.
  2. Elliot J.L.
  3. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

As part of our ongoing program of predictions and observations of stellar occultations by solar system bodies, we have completed a search for candidates for occultations by Triton over the decade 2000 to 2009. Star positions near Triton's projected orbit as determined by the DE405 ephemeris and NEP016 orbit model were measured on (unfiltered) CCD strip scans recorded with the 0.6 m telescope at the George R. Wallace Astrophysical Observatory to a depth of 16th to 18th magnitude, depending on the quality of individual strip scans. Within 1.0" of the predicted orbit of Triton during this period, 128 stars were found, including 12 stars brighter than 14th magnitude. Only appulses with geocentric minimum separations of less than about 0.37" will result in an occultation visible from Earth, but potential errors in the ephemeris and in the positions of our candidates preclude accurate prediction of actual occultation events without further astrometry.

Keywords
  1. occultation
  2. astrometry
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2000AJ....119..936M
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/AJ/119/936
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/119/936
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.51190936

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http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/AJ/119/936/table3?

History

2004-07-04T21:08:48Z
Resource record created
2004-07-04T21:08:48Z
Created
2023-04-06T16:50:39Z
Updated

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