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Efficient Detection-level Linking of Trans-Neptunian Objects via a Spherical-orbit Basis

  • Authors: Thomas R. Ruch, Kevin J. Napier, David W. Gerdes, Hsing Wen Lin, 省文 林

Thomas R. Ruch et al 2026 The Planetary Science Journal 7 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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On-sky separation between two adjacent trial orbits that share an edge in the final adaptive grid. Both orbits are initialized at the same on-sky position at t = 0 (bottom left), with subsequent positions plotted at fixed intervals and colored by epoch. The pair shown is one of the largest-divergence adjacent-orbit pairs, reaching a maximum separation of 29﹩\mathop{.}\limits^{\unicode{x02033}}﹩04 over the search baseline.

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