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The Albedo-Color Diversity of Transneptunian Objects

Authors: Pedro Lacerda, Sonia Fornasier, Emmanuel Lellouch, Csaba Kiss, Esa Vilenius, Pablo Santos-Sanz, Miriam Rengel, Thomas Müller, John Stansberry, René Duffard, Audrey Delsanti, and Aurélie Guilbert-Lepoutre

Lacerda et al. 2014 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 793 L2.

Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 3.

Same as Figure 1 with objects gathered by dynamical class. Underlying contours are a density map of all objects obtained by bootstrap-sampling each object 100 times assuming its albedo (color) follows a lognormal (normal) distribution set by the observing uncertainties.

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