1. Long-term photometric monitoring of the dwarf planet (136472) Makemake
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Pablo Santos-Sanz, Vasilij G. Shevchenko, S. F. Velichko, Vasiliy Rumyantsev, V. R. Ayvazian, Davide Perna, Victor Voropaev, Alexey V. Sergeyev, R. Ya. Inasaridze, Alexander Serebryanskiy, Igor Molotov, Jose Luis Ortiz, Irina Belskaya, Rene Duffard, Audrey Thirouin, Nicolás Morales, Yu. N. Krugly, I. Reva, T. Hromakina, V. Zhuzhunadze, Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA (UMR_8109)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), European Commission, Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), Ministry of Education and Science (Kazakhstan), and Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España)
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Absolute magnitude ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Kuiper belt objects: (136472) individual: Makemake ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Dwarf planet ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astrophysics ,01 natural sciences ,Asymmetry ,0103 physical sciences ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Spherical shape ,media_common ,Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP) ,Physics ,[PHYS]Physics [physics] ,photometric [Techniques] ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Term (time) ,Amplitude ,(136472) individual: Makemake [Kuiper belt objects] ,Space and Planetary Science ,Satellite ,[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] ,Techniques: photometric ,Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics - Abstract
Table A.1 is only available at the CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/625/A46, Aims. We studied the rotational properties of the dwarf planet Makemake. Methods. The photometric observations were carried out at different telescopes between 2006 and 2017. Most of the measurements were acquired in BVRI broad-band filters of a standard Johnson-Cousins photometric system. Results. We found that Makemake rotates more slowly than was previously reported. A possible lightcurve asymmetry suggests a double-peaked period of P = 22.8266 ± 0.0001 h. A small peak-to-peak lightcurve amplitude in R-filter A = 0.032 ± 0.005 mag implies an almost spherical shape or near pole-on orientation. We also measured BVRI colours and the R-filter phase-angle slope and revised the absolute magnitudes. The absolute magnitude of Makemake has remained unchanged since its discovery in 2005. No direct evidence of a newly discovered satellite was found in our photometric data; however, we discuss the possible existence of another larger satellite.© ESO 2019, J.L.O., R.D., and P.S.-S acknowledges financial support from the State Agency for Research of the Spanish MCIU through the >Center of Excellence Severo Ochoa> award for the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (SEV-2017-0709). Funding from MINECO project AYA2017-89637-R is acknowledged. Part of the research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under Grant Agreement no 687378, as part of the project >Small Bodies Near and Far> (SBNAF). R.Ya.I., V.R.A., and V.T.Z. are grateful to the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation grant FR-18-1193 for the partial financial support. D.P. has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement n. 664931. I.V.R. and A.V.S. were partly supported by the programme BR05236322 of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the scientific and technical program BR05336383 >Applied scientific research in the field of space activities>.
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