A survey for satellites of Venus |
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Authors: | Scott S Sheppard Chadwick A Trujillo |
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Institution: | a Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5241 Broad Branch Rd. NW, Washington, DC 20015, United States b Gemini Observatory, 670 North A'ohoku Place, Hilo, HI 96720, United States |
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Abstract: | 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. |
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Keywords: | Venus Satellites general Irregular satellites Planetary formation |
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