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"TNOs are Cool": A survey of the trans-Neptunian region. I. Results from the Herschel science demonstration phase (SDP)

scholarly article

"TNOs are Cool": A survey of the trans-Neptunian region. III. Thermophysical properties of 90482 Orcus and 136472 Makemake

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

"TNOs are Cool": A survey of the trans-Neptunian region. VII. Size and surface characteristics of (90377) Sedna and 2010 EK139

scholarly article

''TNOs are Cool'': A survey of the trans-Neptunian region. II. The thermal lightcurve of (136108) Haumea

scientific article (publication date: July 2010)

A search for ethane on Pluto and Triton

scientific article published in July 2010

Absorption coefficients of the methane–nitrogen binary ice system: Implications for Pluto

article published in 2015

Bladed Terrain on Pluto: Possible origins and evolution

article by Jeffrey M. Moore et al published January 2018 in Icarus

Color, composition, and thermal environment of Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth

scientific article published on 13 February 2020

Colours of minor bodies in the outer solar system

scientific article (publication date: October 2012)

Cometary Science with the James Webb Space Telescope

scientific article published in January 2016

Cometary volatiles and the origin of comets

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Composition of Pluto’s small satellites: Analysis of New Horizons spectral images

scientific article published in November 2018

Detection of ammonia on Pluto's surface in a region of geologically recent tectonism

scientific article published on 29 May 2019

Disk-resolved Photometric Properties of Pluto and the Coloring Materials across its Surface

scholarly article

Distribution and energy balance of Pluto’s nitrogen ice, as seen by New Horizons in 2015

scientific article published in March 2021

EPOXI at comet Hartley 2

scientific article (publication date: 17 June 2011)

EPOXI instrument calibration

scholarly article

ESO large program about transneptunian objects: surface variations on (47171) 1999 TC36

scientific article (publication date: July 2009)

Endogenous CO <sub>2</sub> ice mixture on the surface of Europa and no detection of plume activity

scientific article published on 21 September 2023

Geological mapping of Sputnik Planitia on Pluto

scientific article

Ices on Charon: Distribution of H2O and NH3 from New Horizons LEISA observations

scientific article published in January 2018

Icy Grains from the Nucleus of Comet C/2013 US10 (Catalina)

scientific article

Inflight radiometric calibration of New Horizons’ Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC)

scientific article

Initial results from the New Horizons exploration of 2014 MU69, a small Kuiper Belt object

article

JWST Reveals CO Ice, Concentrated CO₂ Deposits, and Evidence for Carbonates Potentially Sourced from Ariel's Interior

scientific article published in 2024

Methane distribution on Pluto as mapped by the New Horizons Ralph/MVIC instrument

scientific article

Modeling Pluto’s minimum pressure: Implications for haze production

scholarly article

Near-UV OH Prompt Emission in the Innermost Coma of 103P/Hartley 2

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

On the Rotation Period and Shape of the Hyperbolic Asteroid 1I/‘Oumuamua (2017 U1) from Its Lightcurve

article published in 2017

Optical constants of Pluto aerosol analogues from UV to near-IR

scientific article published in July 2021

Optimizing Filter Bandpass Selection for the Thermal Infrared Imager on ESA’s Comet Interceptor Mission

scholarly article

Oxo Crater on (1) Ceres: Geological History and the Role of Water-ice

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Persephone: A Pluto-system Orbiter and Kuiper Belt Explorer

scholarly article

Photometry of Transneptunian Objects for the Herschel Key Program ‘TNOs are Cool’

Physical state and distribution of materials at the surface of Pluto from New Horizons LEISA imaging spectrometer

scientific article published in May 2017

Planetary Spectrum Generator: An accurate online radiative transfer suite for atmospheres, comets, small bodies and exoplanets

scientific article published in September 2018

Pluto's Sputnik Planitia: Composition of geological units from infrared spectroscopy

scientific article published in May 2021

Pluto's haze as a surface material

scientific article published in November 2018

Pluto’s global surface composition through pixel-by-pixel Hapke modeling of New Horizons Ralph/LEISA data

scientific article published in May 2017

Polarimetry of comets 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, 74P/Smirnova–Chernykh, and 152P/Helin–Lawrence

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Searching for water ice in the coma of interstellar object 2I/Borisov

scientific article published on 31 January 2020

Surface composition and physical properties of several trans-neptunian objects from the Hapke scattering theory and Shkuratov model☆

article

Surface compositions across Pluto and Charon

scientific article

Testing Short-term Variability and Sampling of Primary Volatiles in Comet 46P/Wirtanen

scholarly article

Testing tholins as analogues of the dark reddish material covering Pluto’s Cthulhu region

scientific article

The 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko observation campaign in support of the Rosetta mission.

scientific article published on July 2017

The CH4 cycles on Pluto over seasonal and astronomical timescales

The Global Color of Pluto from New Horizons

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

The LCO Outbursting Objects Key Project: Overview and Year 1 Status

scientific article published in 2022

The Pluto system: Initial results from its exploration by New Horizons

scientific article (publication date: 15 October 2015)

The distribution of H2O, CH3OH, and hydrocarbon-ices on Pluto: Analysis of New Horizons spectral images

scientific article published in October 2019

The formation of Charon's red poles from seasonally cold-trapped volatiles

scientific article

The geology and geophysics of Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth

journal article

The nitrogen cycles on Pluto over seasonal and astronomical timescales

journal article

The small satellites of Pluto as observed by New Horizons

scientific article

The temperature, thermal inertia, roughness and color of the nuclei of Comets 103P/Hartley 2 and 9P/Tempel 1

scientific article

Thermal inertia and surface roughness of Comet 9P/Tempel 1

scholarly article

Visible and near-infrared colors of Transneptunian objects and Centaurs from the second ESO large program

scientific article published in January 2009

Water ice and dust in the innermost coma of comet 103P/Hartley 2

scientific article

“TNOs are Cool”: A survey of the trans-Neptunian region. IV. Size/albedo characterization of 15 scattered disk and detached objects observed with Herschel-PACS

scholarly article

“TNOs are Cool”: A survey of the trans-Neptunian region. V. Physical characterization of 18 Plutinos using Herschel-PACS observations

scientific article (publication date: May 2012)

“TNOs are Cool”: A survey of the trans-Neptunian region. VI. Herschel/PACS observations and thermal modeling of 19 classical Kuiper belt objects

scholarly article