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OSSOS. VII. 800+ Trans-Neptunian Objects—The Complete Data Release

Authors: Michele T. Bannister, Brett J. Gladman, J. J. Kavelaars, Jean-Marc Petit, Kathryn Volk, Ying-Tung Chen, Mike Alexandersen, Stephen D. J. Gwyn, Megan E. Schwamb, Edward Ashton, Susan D. Benecchi, Nahuel Cabral, Rebekah I. Dawson, Audrey Delsanti, Wesley C. Fraser, Mikael Granvik, Sarah Greenstreet, Aurélie Guilbert-Lepoutre, Wing-Huen Ip, Marian Jakubik, R. Lynne Jones, Nathan A. Kaib, Pedro Lacerda, Christa Van Laerhoven, Samantha Lawler, Matthew J. Lehner, Hsing Wen Lin, Patryk Sofia Lykawka, Michaël Marsset, Ruth Murray-Clay, Rosemary E. Pike, Philippe Rousselot, Cory Shankman, Audrey Thirouin, Pierre Vernazza, and Shiang-Yu Wang

2018 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 236 18.

Provider: AAS Journals

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Nonresonant Kuiper Belt and detached component as observed by the four surveys of the ensemble: OSSOS, CFEPS, HiLat, and A16 (Table 3: ensemble). Inner, main, and outer Kuiper Belt and detached TNOs are distinguished by symbol shape based on their orbital classifications (Section 3.3). The main Kuiper Belt (blue circles) shows a strong concentration of low-i orbits with a ≃ 44 au, a feature known as the kernel (Petit et al. 2011; Bannister et al. 2016b). The outer belt (red stars) continues at low inclinations beyond the 2:1 mean-motion resonance with Neptune (a ∼ 47.7 au). All orbital elements are barycentric, with 1σ uncertainties shown.

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