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Weywot, an Unusually Low-albedo Satellite in the Trans-Neptunian Region

  • Authors: Estela Fernández-Valenzuela, Bryan J. Holler, Jose Luis Ortiz, Flavia Luane Rommel, Benjamin Proudfoot, Cameron Collyer, Mónica Vara-Lubiano, Nicolas Morales, Rodrigo Leiva, Marc W. Buie, Stephen E. Levine, Michael Collins, Vadim Nikitin, Michael F. Skrutskie, Anne J. Verbiscer, Wayne Rosing, Bruno Morgado, Altair Ramos Gomes Júnior, Mike Kretlow, Josselin Desmars, Chrystian Luciano Pereira, Xavier Inosencio, Pablo Santos-Sanz, Yücel Kiliç, John Stansberry, Rosemary Pike, Amanda A. Sickafoose, Carlos A. Zuluaga, Amanda S. Bosh, Michael J. Person, Karsten Schindler, Robert Jones, Riley DeColibus, Joel H. Castro-Chacón, Nancy Chanover, Russet McMillan, Richard Boyle, Aaron Golden, Michael Ryan, Ryder Strauss, Hannah Zigo, Simon Porter, Malia Kao

Estela Fernández-Valenzuela et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1002 .

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Caption: Figure 4.

Limb fitting to the positive and negative chords (color segments) obtained on June 22, with (upper panel) and without (lower panel) the RECON24 chord. The black (stars) represent the best-fit ellipse (astrometric) solutions. The gray lines represent a sample of limb solutions drawn from the MCMC posterior (Table 4).

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