HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING OF THE PLUTO-CHARON SYSTEM WITH THE FAINT OBJECT CAMERA OF THE HUBBLE-SPACE-TELESCOPE

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作者
ALBRECHT, R
BARBIERI, C
ADORF, HM
CORRAIN, G
GEMMO, A
GREENFIELD, P
HAINAUT, O
HOOK, RN
THOLEN, DJ
BLADES, JC
SPARKS, WB
机构
[1] EUROPEAN SPACE AGCY,DEPT SPACE SCI,DIV ASTROPHYS,2200 AG NOORDWIJK,NETHERLANDS
[2] UNIV PADUA,OSSERVATORIO ASTRON PADOVA,DEPT ASTRON,I-35122 PADUA,ITALY
[3] INST ASTROPHYS LIEGE,B-4000 LIEGE,BELGIUM
[4] SPACE TELESCOPE SCI INST,BALTIMORE,MD 21218
[5] UNIV HAWAII,INST ASTRON,HONOLULU,HI 96822
关键词
PLANETS AND SATELLITES; INDIVIDUAL; (CHARON; PLUTO); TECHNIQUES; IMAGE PROCESSING;
D O I
10.1086/187598
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Images of the Pluto-Charon system were obtained with the Faint Object Camera (FOC) of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) after the refurbishment of the telescope. The images are of superb quality, allowing the determination of radii, fluxes, and albedos. Attempts were made to improve the resolution of the already diffraction limited images by image restoration. These yielded indications of surface albedo distributions qualitatively consistent with models derived from observations of Pluto-Charon mutual eclipses.
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