A survey for satellites of Venus (original) (raw)

NASA/ADS

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• Trujillo, Chadwick A.

Abstract

We present a systematic survey for satellites of Venus using the Baade-Magellan 6.5 m telescope and IMACS wide-field CCD imager at Las Campanas observatory in Chile. In the outer portions of the Hill sphere the search was sensitive to a limiting red magnitude of about 20.4, which corresponds to satellites with radii of a few hundred meters when assuming an albedo of 0.1. In the very inner portions of the Hill sphere scattered light from Venus limited the detection to satellites of about a kilometer or larger. Although several main belt asteroids were found, no satellites (moons) of Venus were detected.

Publication:

Icarus

Pub Date:

July 2009

DOI:

10.1016/j.icarus.2009.02.008

arXiv:

arXiv:0906.2781

Bibcode:

2009Icar..202...12S

Keywords:

• Venus;
• Satellites;
• general;
• Irregular satellites;
• Planetary formation;
• Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics;
• Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics;
• Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

E-Print:

Published in July 2009 (Sheppard, S. and Trujillo, C. 2009, Icarus, 202, 12-16.)