A survey for satellites of Venus

Scott S. Sheppard; Chadwick A. Trujillo

doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2009.02.008

A survey for satellites of Venus

Scott S. Sheppard, Chadwick A. Trujillo

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We present a systematic survey for satellites of Venus using the Baade-Magellan 6.5 m telescope and IMACS wide-field CCD imager at Las Campanas observatory in Chile. In the outer portions of the Hill sphere the search was sensitive to a limiting red magnitude of about 20.4, which corresponds to satellites with radii of a few hundred meters when assuming an albedo of 0.1. In the very inner portions of the Hill sphere scattered light from Venus limited the detection to satellites of about a kilometer or larger. Although several main belt asteroids were found, no satellites (moons) of Venus were detected.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	12-16
Number of pages	5
Journal	Icarus
Volume	202
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2009.02.008
State	Published - Jul 2009
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Irregular satellites
Planetary formation
Satellites
Venus
general

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Astronomy and Astrophysics
Space and Planetary Science

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