A 2011-2013 survey of trans-Neptunian objects Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Alexandersen M.
  2. Gladman B.
  3. Kavelaars J.J.
  4. Petit J.-M.
  5. Gwyn S.D.J.,Shankman C.J.
  6. Pike R.E.
  7. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

The trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) preserve evidence of planet building processes in their orbital and size distributions. While all populations show steep size distributions for large objects, a relative deficit of Neptunian trojans and scattering objects with diameters of D<100km has been detected. We investigated this deficit with a 32 square degree survey, in which we detected 77 TNOs that are brighter than a limiting r-band magnitude of 24.6. Our plutino sample (18 objects in 3:2 mean-motion resonance with Neptune) shows a deficit of D<100km objects, rejecting a single power-law size distribution at >99% confidence. Combining our survey with the Canada-France Ecliptic Plane Survey, we perform a detailed analysis of the allowable parameters for the plutino size distribution, including knees and divots. We surmise the existence of 9000+/-3000 plutinos with an absolute magnitude of H_r_{<=}8.66 and 37000_-10000_^+12000^ with H_r_{<=}10.0 (95% confidence). Our survey also discovered one temporary Uranian trojan, one temporary Neptunian trojan, and one stable Neptunian trojan, for which we estimate populations of 110_-100_^+500^, 210_-200_^+900^, and 150_-140_^+600^ with H_r_{<=}10.0, respectively. All three populations are thus less numerous than the main belt asteroids (592 asteroids with H_r_{<=}10.0). With such population sizes, the temporary Neptunian trojans cannot be previously stable trojans diffusing out of the resonance now; they must be recently captured Centaurs or scattering objects. As the bias against the detection of objects grows with larger semimajor axes, our discovery of three 3:1 resonators and one 4:1 resonator adds to the growing evidence that the high-order resonances are far more populated than is typically predicted.

Keywords
  1. solar-system
  2. asteroids
  3. surveys
  4. apparent-magnitude
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2016AJ....152..111A
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/152/111
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.51520111

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