Search Results - "Da Silva Neto, D. N."
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A Pluto-like radius and a high albedo for the dwarf planet Eris from an occultation
Published in Nature (London) (27-10-2011)“…Pluto's twin is out in the cold Four trans-Neptunian objects are currently recognized as dwarf planets: Eris, Haumea, Makemake and Pluto. Of these, the…”
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Parallaxes of Southern Extremely Cool objects III: 118 L and T dwarfs
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-12-2018)Get full text
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Albedo and atmospheric constraints of dwarf planet Makemake from a stellar occultation
Published in Nature (London) (22-11-2012)“…The icy dwarf planet Makemake has projected axes of 1,430 ± 9 and 1,502 ± 45 km and a V-band geometric albedo larger than Pluto’s but smaller than Eris’s, with…”
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Rio survey of optical astrometric positions for 300 ICRF2 sources and the current optical/radio frame link status before Gaia
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-04-2013)“…We obtained improved optical positions for 300 ICRF2 sources - the Rio survey. We compared the Rio survey with 10 other selected optical astrometric surveys…”
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Analysis of 25 mutual eclipses and occultations between the Galilean satellites observed from Brazil in 2009
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-06-2013)“…The light curves of mutual eclipses and occultations between the natural satellites of a planet allow us to obtain high-precision position and relative motion…”
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Charon's size and an upper limit on its atmosphere from a stellar occultation
Published in Nature (05-01-2006)“…Pluto and its satellite, Charon (discovered in 1978; ref. 1), appear to form a double planet, rather than a hierarchical planet/satellite couple. Charon is…”
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Investigation of USNO-A2.0 Catalog Positions
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Instrumental and digital coronagraphy for the observation of the Uranus satellites’ upcoming mutual events
Published in Planetary and space science (01-11-2008)“…Ground-based observations of faint satellites nearby their planets with 1–2 m class telescopes usually do not allow for high quality astrometry and photometry,…”
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Parallaxes of southern extremely cool objects III: 118 L \& T dwarfs
Published 01-11-2018“…2018MNRAS.481.3548S We present new results from the Parallaxes of Southern Extremely Cool dwarfs program to measure parallaxes, proper motions and multi-epoch…”
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Astrometry of the main satellites of Uranus: 18 years of observations
Published 12-08-2015“…A&A 582, A8 (2015) We determine accurate positions of the main satellites of Uranus: Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon. Positions of Uranus, as…”
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Astrometric positions for 18 irregular satellites of giant planets from 23 years of observations
Published 29-05-2015“…A&A 580, A76 (2015) The irregular satellites of the giant planets are believed to have been captured during the evolution of the solar system. Knowing their…”
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Candidate stellar occultations by large trans-neptunian objects up to 2015
Published 19-04-2012“…We study large trans-neptunian objects (TNOs) using stellar occultations. We derive precise astrometric predictions for stellar occultations by Eris, Haumea,…”
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On the influence of radio extended structures on offsets between the optical and VLBI positions of sources in the ICRF2
Published 03-05-2011“…Context: To investigate the differences between positions, as determined by optical (direct imaging) and Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) techniques,…”
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The Large Quasar Reference Frame (LQRF) - an optical representation of the ICRS
Published 14-07-2009“…The large number and all-sky distribution of quasars from different surveys, along with their presence in large, deep astrometric catalogs,enables the building…”
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