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Small Bodies of the Solar System Active at Large Heliocentric Distances: Studies with the 6-Meter Telescope of Sao Ras

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Abstract—A detailed study of comets active at large heliocentric distances (greater than 4 au) which enter the Solar System for the first time and are composed of matter in its elementary, unprocessed state, would help in our understanding of the history and evolution of the Solar System. In particular, contemporary giant planet formation models require the presence of accretion of volatile elements such as neon, argon, krypton, xenon and others, which initially could not survive at the distances where giant planets were formed. Nevertheless, the volatile components could be effectively delivered by the Kuiper-belt and Oort-cloud bodies, which were formed at temperatures below 30 K. This review is dedicated to the results of a multi-year comprehensive study of small bodies of the Solar System showing a comet-like activity at large heliocentric distances. The data were obtained from observations with the 6-m telescope of SAO RAS equipped with multi-mode focal reducers SCORPIO and SCORPIO-2.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Most of the works have been carried out within the framework of comprehensive observational programs for research of distant comet activity together with co-authors in SAO RAS (Afanasiev V.L., Moiseev A.V.) and MAO NASU (Korsun P.P., Rosenbush V.K., Kiselyev N.N., Kulyk I.V.) The author would like to thank Alexey Moiseev and Igor Lukyanyk for critical comments and discussion, which have significantly improved the paper. The author is grateful to Afanasiev V.L., Moiseev A.V., Oparin D.V., Uklein R.I for conducting observations with the 6-m telescope of SAO RAS.

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Observations with the SAO RAS telescopes are supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (including agreement No. 05.619.21.0016, project ID RFMEFI61919X0016). The research was additionally funded by a grant from the Slovak academy of sciences VEGA 2/0023/18.

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Ivanova, A.V. Small Bodies of the Solar System Active at Large Heliocentric Distances: Studies with the 6-Meter Telescope of Sao Ras. Astrophys. Bull. 75, 31–49 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1990341320010034

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