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Paper
2019 UO\\(_{14}\\): A Transient Trojan of Saturn
2024
Overview
Saturn has long been the only giant planet in our solar system without any known Trojan members. In this paper, with serendipitous archival observations and refined orbit determination, we report that 2019 UO\\(_{14}\\) is a Trojan of the gas giant. However, the object is only a transient Trojan currently librating around the leading Lagrange point \\(L_4\\) of the Sun-Saturn system in a period of \\(\\sim\\!0.7\\) kyr. Our N-body numerical simulation shows that 2019 UO\\(_{14}\\) was likely captured as a Centaur and became trapped around \\(L_4\\) \\(\\sim\\!2\\) kyr ago from a horseshoe coorbital. The current Trojan state will be maintained for another millennium or thereabouts before transitioning back to a horseshoe state. Additionally, we characterize the physical properties of 2019 UO\\(_{14}\\). Assuming a linear phase slope of \\(0.06 \\pm 0.01\\) mag/deg, the mean \\(r\\)-band absolute magnitude of the object was determined to be \\(H_r = 13.11 \\pm 0.07\\), with its color measured to be consistent with those of Jupiter and Neptune Trojans and not statistically different from Centaurs. Although the short-lived Saturn Trojan exhibited no compelling evidence of activity in the observations, we favour the possibility that it could be an active Trojan. If confirmed, 2019 UO\\(_{14}\\) would be marked as the first active Trojan in our solar system. We conservatively determine the optical depth of dust within our photometric aperture to be \\(\\lesssim\\!10^{-7}\\), corresponding to a dust mass-loss rate to be \\(\\lesssim\\!1\\) kg s\\(^{-1}\\), provided that the physical properties of dust grains resemble Centaur 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1.
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Cornell University Library, arXiv.org
