LUCKY STAR SIGNED
Exploring the outer solar system beyond Neptune using stellar occultations
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| Coordinator |
UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE - PARIS 6
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| Coordinator Country | France [FR] |
| Project website | http://lesia.obspm.fr/lucky-star/predictions/ |
| Total cost | 2˙423˙750 € |
| EC max contribution | 2˙423˙750 € (100%) |
| Programme |
1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)) |
| Code Call | ERC-2014-ADG |
| Funding Scheme | ERC-ADG |
| Starting year | 2015 |
| Duration (year-month-day) | from 2015-11-01 to 2020-10-31 |
Partnership
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SORBONNE UNIVERSITE | FR (PARIS) | coordinator | 650˙000.00 |
| 2 | UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE - PARIS 6 | FR (PARIS) | coordinator | 0.00 |
| 3 | OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS | FR (PARIS) | participant | 1˙773˙750.00 |
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Project objective
The solar system beyond Neptune’s contains largely unaltered material from the primordial circum-solar disk. It also kept the memory of the early planetary migrations, and thus contains essential information on the origin and evolution of our planetary system.
Here I propose to study the Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) using the stellar occultation technique. It consists in observing the passage of remote TNOs in front of those “Lucky Stars”, that reveal shapes, atmosphere and rings of bodies from sub-km to thousand-km in size. Very few teams in the world master this method. The European-led network that I coordinate is now leader in predictions, instrumentation, observations and analysis related to stellar occultations, with innovative approaches and unprecedented results.
In the last decade, our group led the field by discovering rings around the asteroid-like object Chariklo, detecting sub-km TNOs and drastic variations of Pluto’s atmospheric pressure. Based on those noteworthy discoveries and unique skills of ours, I will coordinate the following work packages:
(1) Rings around small bodies - Understand the newly found Chariklo’s rings, tackle the theory of rings’ origins and evolutions around small bodies, discover new ring systems around other bodies.
(2) Very small, sub-km TNOs and Oort Cloud objects - Constrain the collisional history of our early outer solar system, and possibly detect Oort Cloud objects.
(3) Pluto’s atmosphere – Explore Pluto’s atmosphere and its atypical seasonal cycle, search for atmospheres around other TNOs.
(4) Explore specific, large TNOs – Provide their sizes, shapes, albedos and densities.
These programs are timely in view of NASA/New Horizons Pluto flyby in July 2015, and the ESA/GAIA mission expected to provide a greatly improved astrometric catalog release in 2016.
Most of the budget will be dedicated to human power to conduct observations and their analysis, plus the associated travel and telescope time expenses.
Publications
| year | authors and title | journal | last update |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 |
Bruno Sicardy Resonances in Nonaxisymmetric Gravitational Potentials published pages: 102, ISSN: 1538-3881, DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ab6d06 |
The Astronomical Journal 159/3 | 2020-02-19 |
| 2020 |
Ortiz, J. L.; Sicardy, B.; Camargo, J. I. B.; Santos-Sanz, P.; Braga-Ribas, F. Stellar Occultations by Transneptunian objects: from Predictions to Observations and Prospects for the Future published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
1 | 2019-12-16 |
| 2019 |
F Braga-Ribas, A Crispim, R Vieira-Martins, B Sicardy, J L Ortiz, M Assafin, J I B Camargo, J Desmars, J Lecacheux, P Santos-Sanz, R Duffard, G Benedetti-Rossi, A R Gomes-Júnior, B Morgado, F L Rommel, G Margoti, C L Pereira Database on detected stellar occultations by small outer Solar System objects published pages: 12024, ISSN: 1742-6588, DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/1365/1/012024 |
Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1365 | 2019-11-12 |
| 2019 |
N C S Araujo, S Renner, N J Cooper, M El Moutamid, C D Murray, B Sicardy, E Vieira Neto The dynamics of the outer edge of Saturn’s A ring perturbed by the satellites Janus and Epimetheus published pages: 5037-5045, ISSN: 0035-8711, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1157 |
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 486/4 | 2019-11-12 |
| 2019 |
Gustavo Benedetti-Rossi, P. Santos-Sanz, J. L. Ortiz, M. Assafin, B. Sicardy, N. Morales, R. Vieira-Martins, R. Duffard, F. Braga-Ribas, F. L. Rommel, J. I. B. Camargo, J. Desmars, A. F. Colas, F. Vachier, A. Alvarez-Candal, E. Fernández-Valenzuela, L. Almenares, R. Artola, T.-P. Baum, R. Behrend, D. Bérard, F. B. Bianco, N. Brosch, A. Ceretta, C. A. Colazo, A. R. Gomes-Junior, V. D. Ivanov, E. The Trans-Neptunian Object (84922) 2003 VS 2 through Stellar Occultations published pages: 159, ISSN: 1538-3881, DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ab3b05 |
The Astronomical Journal 158/4 | 2019-10-15 |
| 2015 |
J. Desmars, J. I. B. Camargo, F. Braga-Ribas, R. Vieira-Martins, M. Assafin, F. Vachier, F. Colas, J. L. Ortiz, R. Duffard, N. Morales, B. Sicardy, A. R. Gomes-Júnior, G. Benedetti-Rossi Orbit determination of trans-Neptunian objects and Centaurs for the prediction of stellar occultations published pages: A96, ISSN: 0004-6361, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201526498 |
Astronomy & Astrophysics 584 | 2019-07-04 |
| 2018 |
B. Sicardy, M. El Moutamid, A. C. Quillen, P. M. Schenk, M. R. Showalter, K. Walsh Rings beyond the giant planets published pages: 135-154, ISSN: , DOI: 10.1017/9781316286791.007 |
Planetary Ring Systems | 2019-07-04 |
| 2017 |
E. Lellouch, R. Moreno, T. Müller, S. Fornasier, P. Santos-Sanz, A. Moullet, M. Gurwell, J. Stansberry, R. Leiva, B. Sicardy, B. Butler, J. Boissier The thermal emission of Centaurs and trans-Neptunian objects at millimeter wavelengths from ALMA observations published pages: A45, ISSN: 0004-6361, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201731676 |
Astronomy & Astrophysics 608 | 2019-07-04 |
| 2019 |
J. Desmars, E. Meza, B. Sicardy, M. Assafin, J. I. B. Camargo, F. Braga-Ribas, G. Benedetti-Rossi, A. Dias-Oliveira, B. Morgado, A. R. Gomes-Júnior, R. Vieira-Martins, R. Behrend, J. L. Ortiz, R. Duffard, N. Morales, P. Santos Sanz Pluto’s ephemeris from ground-based stellar occultations (1988–2016) published pages: A43, ISSN: 0004-6361, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201834958 |
Astronomy & Astrophysics 625 | 2019-06-06 |
| 2019 |
E. Meza, B. Sicardy, M. Assafin, J. L. Ortiz, T. Bertrand, E. Lellouch, J. Desmars, F. Forget, D. Bérard, A. Doressoundiram, J. Lecacheux, J. Marques Oliveira, F. Roques, T. Widemann, F. Colas, F. Vachier, S. Renner, R. Leiva, F. Braga-Ribas, G. Benedetti-Rossi, J. I. B. Camargo, A. Dias-Oliveira, B. Morgado, A. R. Gomes-Júnior, R. Vieira-Martins, R. Behrend, A. Castro Tirado, R. Duffard, N. Morales, P. Santos-Sanz, M. JelÃnek, R. Cunniffe, R. Querel, M. Harnisch, R. Jansen, A. Pennell, S. Todd, V. D. Ivanov, C. Opitom, M. Gillon, E. Jehin, J. Manfroid, J. Pollock, D. E. Reichart, J. B. Haislip, K. M. Ivarsen, A. P. LaCluyze, A. Maury, R. Gil-Hutton, V. Dhillon, S. Littlefair, T. Marsh, C. Veillet, K.-L. Bath, W. Beisker, H.-J. Bode, M. Kretlow, D. Herald, D. Gault, S. Kerr, H. Pavlov, O. Faragó, O. Klös, E. Frappa, M. Lavayssière, A. A. Cole, A. B. Giles, J. G. Greenhill, K. M. Hill, M. W. Buie, C. B. Olkin, E. F. Young, L. A. Young, L. H. Wasserman, M. Devogèle, R. G. French, F. B. Bianco, F. Marchis, N. Brosch, S. Kaspi, D. Polishook, I. Manulis, M. Ait Moulay Larbi, Z. Benkhaldoun, A. Daassou, Y. El Azhari, Y. Moulane, J. Broughton, J. Milner, T. Dobosz, G. Bolt, B. Lade, A. Gilmore, P. Kilmartin, W. H. Allen, P. B. Graham, B. Loader, G. McKay, J. Talbot, S. Parker, L. Abe, Ph. Bendjoya, J.-P. Rivet, D. Vernet, L. Di Fabrizio, V. Lorenzi, A. Magazzú, E. Molinari, K. Gazeas, L. Tzouganatos, A. Carbognani, G. Bonnoli, A. Marchini, G. Leto, R. Zanmar Sanchez, L. Mancini, B. Kattentidt, M. Dohrmann, K. Guhl, W. Rothe, K. Walzel, G. Wortmann, A. Eberle, D. Hampf, J. Ohlert, G. Krannich, G. Murawsky, B. Gährken, D. Gloistein, S. Alonso, A. Román, J.-E. Communal, F. Jabet, S. deVisscher, J. Sérot, T. Janik, Z. Moravec, P. Machado, A. Selva, C. Perelló, J. Rovira, M. Conti, R. Papini, F. Salvaggio, A. Noschese, V. Tsamis, K. Tigani, P. Barroy, M. Irzyk, D. Neel, J. P. Godard, D. Lanoiselée, P. Sogorb, D. Vérilhac, M. Bretton, F. Signoret, F. Ciabattari, R. Naves, M. Boutet, J. De Queiroz, P. Lindner, K. Lindner, P. Enskonatus, G. Dangl, T. Tordai, H. Eichler, J. Hattenbach, C. Peterson, L. A. Molnar, R. R. Howell Lower atmosphere and pressure evolution on Pluto from ground-based stellar occultations, 1988–2016 published pages: A42, ISSN: 0004-6361, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201834281 |
Astronomy & Astrophysics 625 | 2019-06-06 |
| 2018 |
B. Sicardy, R. Leiva, S. Renner, F. Roques, M. El Moutamid, P. Santos-Sanz, J. Desmars Ring dynamics around non-axisymmetric bodies with application to Chariklo and Haumea published pages: , ISSN: 2397-3366, DOI: 10.1038/s41550-018-0616-8 |
Nature Astronomy | 2019-04-18 |
| 2019 |
M. V. Banda-Huarca, J. I. B. Camargo, J. Desmars, R. L. C. Ogando, R. Vieira-Martins, M. Assafin, L. N. da Costa, G. M. Bernstein, M. Carrasco Kind, A. Drlica-Wagner, R. Gomes, M. M. Gysi, F. Braga-Ribas, M. A. G. Maia, D. W. Gerdes, S. Hamilton, W. Wester, T. M. C. Abbott, F. B. Abdalla, S. Allam, S. Avila, E. Bertin, D. Brooks, E. Buckley-Geer, D. L. Burke, A. Carnero Rosell, J. Carretero, C. E. Cunha, C. Davis, J. De Vicente, H. T. Diehl, P. Doel, P. Fosalba, J. Frieman, J. GarcÃa-Bellido, E. Gaztanaga, D. Gruen, R. A. Gruendl, J. Gschwend, G. Gutierrez, W. G. Hartley, D. L. Hollowood, K. Honscheid, D. J. James, K. Kuehn, N. Kuropatkin, F. Menanteau, C. J. Miller, R. Miquel, A. A. Plazas, A. K. Romer, E. Sanchez, V. Scarpine, M. Schubnell, S. Serrano, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, M. Smith, M. Soares-Santos, F. Sobreira, E. Suchyta, M. E. C. Swanson, G. Tarle Astrometry and Occultation Predictions to Trans-Neptunian and Centaur Objects Observed within the Dark Energy Survey published pages: 120, ISSN: 1538-3881, DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/aafb37 |
The Astronomical Journal 157/3 | 2019-03-18 |
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