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The Near-Centaur Environment: Satellites, Rings, and Debris
A. A. Sickafoose, S. M. Giuliatti Winter, R. Leiva, C. B. Olkin, D. Ragozzine, L. M. Woodney
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04130

The Near-Centaur Environment: Satellites, Rings, and Debris
The unexpected finding of a ring system around the Centaur (10199) Chariklo opened a new window for dynamical studies and posed many questions about the formation and evolutionary mechanisms of Centaurs as well as the relationship to satellites and outbursting activity. As minor planets that cross the orbits of the giant planets, Centaurs have short dynamical lifetimes: Centaurs are supplied from the trans-Neptunian region and some fraction migrates inward to become Jupiter-family comets. Given…