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NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s First View of the Neptune Trojan L5 (Trailing) Cloud: Two New Long-term Stable Trojans

  • Authors: Megan E. Schwamb, Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Kathryn Volk, Joseph Murtagh, Hsing Wen Lin, 省文 林, Andrew S. Rivkin, Colin Orion Chandler, R. Lynne Jones, Susan D. Benecchi, Mario Jurić, Jacob A. Kurlander, Sarah Greenstreet, Adam Wilson, Maxine West, Ryan R. Lyttle

Megan E. Schwamb et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1010 .

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Caption: Figure 6.

Left: g − r and r − i colors of the Rubin L5 Neptune Trojans (in teal), as well as the objects from L. Markwardt et al. (2023) and P. H. Bernardinelli et al. (2023) (in gray). The L5 Trojans from B. T. Bolin et al. (2023) are shown in red, and the L5 Trojan from A. H. Parker et al. (2013) is shown in purple. Colors for 2011 HM102 are reported in A. H. Parker et al. (2013) and are also in the B. T. Bolin et al. (2023) sample; the two differing color measurements are connected by a purple dashed line. Right: the same Rubin measurements, and a heat map showing samples from the two-component Gaussian model of P. H. Bernardinelli et al. (2025).

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