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Changes in Pluto’s Atmosphere Based on Stellar Occultation Data from 2017 to 2023

  • Authors: Amanda A. Sickafoose, Michael J. Person, Carlos A. Zuluaga, Amanda S. Bosh, Stephen E. Levine, Tim Brothers, Bastian Knieling, Timothy A. Lister, David J. Osip, Karsten Schindler, Joe Brimacombe, Tim Carruthers, Abigail Colclasure, Anja Genade, Petro Janse van Rensburg, Stephen B. Potter, Patricio Rojo

Amanda A. Sickafoose et al 2026 The Planetary Science Journal 7 .

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Caption: Figure 9.

Example images from the successful telescopes for the 2021 August 6 event (details are provided in Table 3). Reduced images from the three LCO-LSC 1 m telescopes show faint differences between the two simultaneous readout channels, less than those in Figure 6. The Pluto system and the occultation star (merged) are labeled, as well as the comparison stars used to derive the light curves. The inset images for Magellan and Gemini South are well-separated data taken roughly an hour after the occultation, shown at a different display scale, in which the occultation star, Pluto, and Charon are apparent.

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