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A Survey for Outer Satellites of Mars: Limits to Completeness

Author(s) -

Scott S. Sheppard,

David Jewitt,

Jan Kleyna

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

the astronomical journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.61

H-Index - 271

eISSN - 1538-3881

pISSN - 0004-6256

DOI - 10.1086/424541

Subject(s) - mars exploration program , albedo (alchemy) , limiting magnitude , limiting , physics , astrobiology , astronomy , geodesy , remote sensing , geography , history , telescope , engineering , mechanical engineering , performance art , art history

We surveyed the Hill sphere of Mars for irregular satellites. Our searchcovered nearly the entire Hill Sphere, but scattered light from Mars excludedthe inner few arcminutes where the satellites Phobos and Deimos reside. No newsatellites were found to an apparent limiting red magnitude of 23.5, whichcorresponds to radii of about 0.09 km using an albedo of 0.07.Comment: 5 figures (1 color), 2 Tables, to appear in AJ Nov. 200

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