The high optical brightness of the BlueWalker 3 satellite

Large constellations of bright artificial satellites in low Earth orbit pose significant challenges to ground-based astronomy(1). Current orbiting constellation satellites have brightnesses between apparent magnitudes 4 and 6, whereas in the near-infrared Ks band, they can reach magnitude 2 (ref. (2...

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Autores principales: Nandakumar, Sangeetha, Eggl, Siegfried, Tregloan-Reed, Jeremy, Adam, Christian, Anderson-Baldwin, Jasmine, Bannister, Michele T., Battle, Adam, Benkhaldoun, Zouhair, Campbell, Tanner, Colque, J. P., Damke, Guillermo, Plauchu Frayn, Ilse, Ghachoui, Mourad, Guillen, Pedro F., Kaeouach, Aziz Ettahar, Krantz, Harrison R., Langbroek, Marco, Rattenbury, Nicholas, Reddy, Vishnu, Ridden-Harper, Ryan, Young, Brad, Unda-Sanzana, Eduardo, Watson, Alan M., Walker, Constance E., Barentine, John C., Benvenuti, Piero, Di Vruno, Federico, Peel, Mike W., Rawls, Meredith L., Bassa, Cees, Flores-Quintana, Catalina, García, Pablo, Kim, Sam, Longa-Peña, Penélope, Ortiz, Edgar, Otarola, Ángel, Romero-Colmenares, María, Sanhueza, Pedro, Siringo, Giorgio, Soto, Mario
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10686822/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37783227
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06672-7

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10686822/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37783227
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06672-7

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