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TWO COLOR POPULATIONS OF KUIPER BELT AND CENTAUR OBJECTS AND THE SMALLER ORBITAL INCLINATIONS OF RED CENTAUR OBJECTS

  • Authors: S. C. Tegler, W. Romanishin, and G. J. Consolmagno, S. J.

2016 The Astronomical Journal 152 210.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 9.

Centaur B R colors and absolute visual magnitude, HV. The horizontal lines represent the median HV values of the gray and red Centaurs. Application of the Wilcoxon rank sum test gives p = 0.07 which shows an almost significant difference between HV values of red and gray Centaurs. The red Centaurs have larger albedos than the gray Centaurs and so the possibly larger median HV for red Centaurs suggests that red Centaurs may have smaller diameters than gray Centaurs.

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