Minor Bodies in the Outer Solar System:

Magnitudes and Colours

O.R. Hainaut, ESO, H. Boehnhardt, MPS, and S. Protopapa, UMd

Credits and copyright

Colors and magnitudes were compiled from the papers listed in the mbossRef file available on the table page. The full references are available in the mbossBib file on that page.

The relevant papers were identified using the following resources:

  • The "Distant EKO" pages (by Joel Parker), and the corresponding newsletter, were --and continue to be-- very valuable for this work.
  • Another very valuable source is C. Neese's compilations of TNO and Centaur colors, at NASA's Planetary Data System. They are available at this link, and the formal reference of the current version is "Neese, C., Ed., TNO and Centaur Colors V8.0. EAR-A-COMPIL-3-TNO-CEN-COLOR-V8.0. NASA Planetary Data System, 2011."
  • The "Besançon photometric database for Kuiper-Belt Objects and Centaurs", maintained by Ph. Rousselot.
  • The arXiv astro-ph e-print service.

MPC: This research has made use of IAU's Minor Planet Center data.

ADS: This research has made (extensive) use of NASA's Astrophysics Data System Bibliographic Services

Horizons: This research has made use of NASA JPL's Horizons ephemeris computation service.

Banner image: from eso1144c, credit ESO / L. Calçada (ESO) / N. Risinger (skysurvey.org)

Copyright: You may use the content of these pages, including in publications of any type, provided you make reference to the original paper
Hainaut, Boehnhardt & Protopapa (2012) A&A 546, A115 [ADS | BibTeX | DOI | arXiv | ADS ] and/or point to the online version at http://www.eso.org/~ohainaut/MBOSS , following the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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