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A Survey for Outer Satellites of Mars: Limits to Completeness

Year: 2004

Type: article

Abstract: We have surveyed the Hill sphere of Mars for irregular satellites. Our search covered nearly the entire Hill sphere, but scattered light from Mars excluded the inner few arcminutes where the satellites Phobos and Deimos reside. No new satellites were found to an apparent limiting red magnitude of 23.5, which corresponds to radii of about 0.09 km using an albedo of 0.07.

Source: The Astronomical Journal

DOI: 10.1086/424541

Authors: Scott S. Sheppard, David Jewitt, Jan Kleyna

Institutions: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, University of Hawaii System, Carnegie Institution for Science, Carnegie Observatories, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism

Language: English

Topic: Astro and Planetary Science

Subfield: Space and Planetary Science

Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

OpenAlex ID: W1988432963

FWCI: 1.873

Cites: 19

Cited by: 14

Related to: 10