High-Resolution Imaging of the Pluto-Charon System with the Faint Object Camera of the Hubble Space Telescope
Abstract
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.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- November 1994
- DOI:
- 10.1086/187598
- Bibcode:
- 1994ApJ...435L..75A
- Keywords:
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- Albedo;
- Astronomical Photometry;
- Charon;
- High Resolution;
- Image Processing;
- Limb Darkening;
- Pluto (Planet);
- Faint Object Camera;
- Hubble Space Telescope;
- Orbit Perturbation;
- Planetary Atmospheres;
- Planetary Radiation;
- Astronomy;
- TECHNIQUES: IMAGE PROCESSING;
- PLANETS AND SATELLITES: INDIVIDUAL CHARON;
- PLANETS AND SATELLITES: INDIVIDUAL PLUTO