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Data Set Overview
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This data set includes a collection of published lightcurves of
trans-Neptunian objects published through December 2002. The collection
includes lightcurves of 18 objects reported in the following papers:
Collander-Brown, S.J., A. Fitzsimmons, E. Fletcher, M.J. Irwin and I.P.
Williams 1999. Light curves of the Trans-Neptunian Objects 1996 TP66 and
1994 VK8. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 308, 588.
Collander-Brown, S.J., A. Fitzsimmons, E. Fletcher, M.J. Irwin, and I.P.
Williams 2001. The scattered trans-neptunian object 1998 XY95. Monthly
Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 325, 972.
Hainaut, O.R., C. E. Delahodde, H. Boehnhardt, E. Dotto, M. A. Barucci,
K. J. Meech, J. M. Bauer, R. M. West, A. Doressoundiram 2000. Physical
Properties of TNO 1996 TO66 - Lightcurves and Possible Cometary Activity.
A and A 356, 1076-1088.
Sheppard, S.S., and David C. Jewitt 2002. Time-resolved photometry of
Kuiper belt objects: Rotations, shapes and phase functions. A.J. 124,
1757-1775.
Data
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The lightcurves from each paper are in a separate file, because of
differences in the types of data reported. Each data file includes the
time of observation in Julian Date, the magnitude and/or color index
reported for that time, and other parameters of the observation including
exposure time. Error values on the measurements are included where
available.
Three of the files give R-band lightcurves, and the fourth gives color
index lightcurves in B-R, V-R, and R-I.
Modification History
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In 2012, the data files were split into separate files, one for each
lightcurve, to facilitate loading the data into the SBN data ferret. The
version number of the data set was incremented to V1.1.
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