Search Results - "de la Fuente Marcos, R."
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Binary stripping as a plausible origin of correlated pairs of extreme trans-Neptunian objects
Published in Astrophysics and space science (01-11-2017)“…Asteroids that follow similar orbits may have a dynamical connection as their current paths could be the result of a past interaction with a massive perturber…”
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From Star Complexes to the Field: Open Cluster Families
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-01-2008)“…The currently accepted paradigm for star formation assumes that field stars are born in clusters. These are not formed In isolation but in stellar complexes…”
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Asteroid 2017 FZ2 et al.: signs of recent mass-shedding from YORP?
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-01-2018)“…Abstract The first direct detection of the asteroidal Yarkovsky–O'Keefe–Radzievskii–Paddack (YORP) effect, a phenomenon that changes the spin states of small…”
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Searching for the lost Unicorn: a prominent feature in the radial velocity distribution of stars in Vela from Gaia DR2 data
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Letters (21-11-2018)“…ABSTRACT Stellar streams are ubiquitous in the Galactic halo and they can be used to improve our understanding of the formation and evolution of the Milky Way…”
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Dynamically correlated minor bodies in the outer Solar system
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-02-2018)“…Abstract The organization of the orbits of most minor bodies in the Solar system seems to follow random patterns, the result of billions of years of chaotic…”
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Photometry of Centaurs and trans-Neptunian objects: 2060 Chiron (1977 UB), 10199 Chariklo (1997 CU26), 38628 Huya (2000 EB173), 28978 Ixion (2001 KX76), and 90482 Orcus (2004 DW)
Published in Astrophysics and space science (01-07-2016)“…Both Centaurs and trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are minor bodies found in the outer Solar System. Centaurs are a transient population that moves between the…”
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The Evolution of Primordial Binary Open Star Clusters: Mergers, Shredded Secondaries, and Separated Twins
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-08-2010)“…The properties of the candidate binary star cluster population in the Magellanic Clouds and Milky Way are similar. The fraction of candidate binaries is…”
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From horseshoe to quasi-satellite and back again: the curious dynamics of Earth co-orbital asteroid 2015 SO2
Published in Astrophysics and space science (2016)“…Earth co-orbitals of the horseshoe type are interesting objects to study for practical reasons. They are relatively easy to access from our planet and that…”
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Large retrograde Centaurs: visitors from the Oort cloud?
Published in Astrophysics and space science (01-08-2014)“…Among all the asteroid dynamical groups, Centaurs have the highest fraction of objects moving in retrograde orbits. The distribution in absolute magnitude, H ,…”
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Homing in for New Year: impact parameters and pre-impact orbital evolution of meteoroid 2014 AA
Published in Astrophysics and space science (01-11-2016)“…On 2008 October 7, small asteroid 2008 TC 3 turned itself into the parent body of the first meteor ever to be predicted before entering the Earth’s atmosphere…”
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Gravitational interactions between globular and open clusters: an introduction
Published in Astrophysics and space science (2014)“…Historically, it has been assumed that globular and open clusters never interact. However, recent evidence suggests that: globular clusters passing through the…”
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Twisted extreme trans-Neptunian orbital parameter space: statistically significant asymmetries confirmed
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Letters (01-05-2022)“…ABSTRACT Asymmetric debris discs have been found around stars other than the Sun; asymmetries are sometimes attributed to perturbations induced by unseen…”
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Peculiar orbits and asymmetries in extreme trans-Neptunian space
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-09-2021)“…ABSTRACT It is still an open question how the Solar system is structured beyond 100 au from the Sun. Our understanding of this vast region remains very limited…”
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Using Mars co-orbitals to estimate the importance of rotation-induced YORP break-up events in Earth co-orbital space
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-03-2021)“…ABSTRACT Both Earth and Mars host populations of co-orbital minor bodies. A large number of present-day Mars co-orbitals is probably associated with the…”
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On the orbital evolution of meteoroid 2020 CD3, a temporarily captured orbiter of the Earth–Moon system
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-05-2020)“…ABSTRACT Any near-Earth object (NEO) following an Earth-like orbit may eventually be captured by Earth’s gravity during low-velocity encounters. This…”
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On the orbital evolution of 2020 AV2, the first asteroid ever observed to go around the Sun inside the orbit of Venus
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Letters (01-05-2020)“…ABSTRACT The innermost section of the Solar system has not been extensively studied because minor bodies moving inside Earth’s orbit tend to spend most of…”
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On the dynamical evolution of 2002 VE68
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-11-2012)“…ABSTRACT The minor planet 2002 VE68 was identified as a quasi‐satellite of Venus shortly after its discovery. At that time its data‐arc span was only 24 d; now…”
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Finding Planet Nine: apsidal anti-alignment Monte Carlo results
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-10-2016)“…The distribution of the orbital elements of the known extreme trans-Neptunian objects or ETNOs has been found to be statistically incompatible with that of an…”
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Dancing with Venus in the shadow of the Earth: a pair of genetically related near-Earth asteroids trapped in a mean-motion resonance
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Letters (11-02-2019)“…ABSTRACT YORP-induced fission events may form dynamically coherent pairs or even families of asteroids. The outcome of this process is well documented among…”
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Comet C/2018 V1 (Machholz–Fujikawa–Iwamoto): dislodged from the Oort Cloud or coming from interstellar space?
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-10-2019)“…ABSTRACT The chance discovery of the first interstellar minor body, 1I/2017 U1 (‘Oumuamua), indicates that we may have been visited by such objects in the past…”
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