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Authors: Goguen J. D., Hammel H. B., and Brown R. H.
Year: 1989
Title: V photometry of Titania, Oberon, and Triton
Journal: Icarus
Volume: 77
Pages: 239-247
Keywords: Uranus, Neptune, Triton, observation, data, analysis, photometric
Abstract: The phase angle and orbital brightness variations of Titania, Oberon, and Triton are presently obtained through analysis of V filter photometry obtained at Mauna Kea in 1982-1983. While Titania and Oberon exhibit magnitude variations with phase angle comparable to those of low-to-moderate albedo asteroids observed within several deg of opposition, Triton's phase variation is distinctly different from these and has a phase coefficient consistent with either a high-albedo regolith or an optically thick nonparticulate scattering layer (perhaps an atmosphere, or an ocean). A low-albedo regolith cannot on the strength of these data be ruled out, however.
%F: AB(California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena; Hawaii, University, Honolulu) AC(California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena)
Bibliogaphic Code: 1989Icar...77..239G

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