The Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS), a wide-field imaging program in 2013-2017 with the CanadaFrance-Hawaii Telescope, surveyed 155 deg 2 of sky to depths of m r = 24.1-25.2. We present 838 outer solar system discoveries that are entirely free of ephemeris bias. This increases the inventory of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) with accurately known orbits by nearly 50%. Each minor planet has 20-60 Gaia/Pan-STARRS-calibrated astrometric measurements made over 2-5 oppositions, which allows accurate classification of their orbits within the trans-Neptunian dynamical populations. The populations orbiting in mean-motion resonance with Neptune are key to understanding Neptune's early migration. Our 313 resonant TNOs, including 132 plutinos, triple the available characterized sample and include new occupancy of distant resonances out to semimajor axis a ∼ 130 au. OSSOS doubles the known population of the nonresonant Kuiper Belt, providing 436 TNOs in this region, all with exceptionally high-quality orbits of a uncertainty σ a 0.1%; they show that the belt exists from a 37 au, with a lower perihelion bound of 35au. We confirm the presence of a concentrated low-inclination a ; 44 au "kernel" population and a dynamically cold population extending beyond the 2:1 resonance. We finely quantify the survey's observational biases. Our survey simulator provides a straightforward way to impose these biases on models of the trans-Neptunian orbit distributions, allowing statistical comparison to the discoveries. The OSSOS TNOs, unprecedented in their orbital precision for the size of the sample, are ideal for testing concepts of the history of giant planet migration in the solar system.
The scattering trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) can be measured to smaller sizes than any other distant small-body population. We use the largest sample yet obtained, 68 discoveries, primarily by the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS), to constrain the slope of its luminosity distribution, with sensitivity to much fainter absolute H-magnitudes than previous work. Using the analysis technique in Shankman et al., we confirm that a single slope for the H-distribution is not an accurate representation of the scattering TNOs and Centaurs, and that a break in the distribution is required, in support of previous conclusions. A bright-end slope of α b =0.9 transitioning to a faintend slope α f of 0.4-0.5 with a differential number contrast c from 1 (a knee) to 10 (a divot) provides an acceptable match to our data. We find that break magnitudes H b of 7.7 and 8.3, values both previously suggested for dynamically hot Kuiper Belt populations, are equally non-rejectable for a range of α f and c in our statistical analysis. Our preferred divot H-distribution transitions to α f =0.5 with a divot of contrast c=3 at H b =8.3, while our preferred knee H-distribution transitions to α f =0.4 at H b =7.7. The intrinsic population of scattering TNOs required to match the OSSOS detections is 3×10 6 for H r <12, and 9×10 4 for H r <8.66 (D100 km), with Centaurs having an intrinsic population two orders of magnitude smaller.
The first two observational sky "blocks" of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS) have significantly increased the number of well characterized observed trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) in Neptuneʼs mean motion resonances. We describe the 31 securely resonant TNOs detected by OSSOS so far, and we use them to independently verify the resonant population models from the Canada-France Ecliptic Plane Survey (CFEPS), with which we find broad agreement. We confirm that the 5:2 resonance is more populated than models of the outer solar systemʼs dynamical history predict; our minimum population estimate shows that the high-eccentricity (e > 0.35) portion of the resonance is at least as populous as the 2:1 and possibly as populated as the 3:2 resonance. One OSSOS block was well suited for detecting objects trapped at low libration amplitudes in Neptuneʼs 3:2 resonance, a population of interest in testing the origins of resonant TNOs. We detected three 3:2 objects with libration amplitudes below the cutoff modeled by CFEPS; OSSOS thus offers new constraints on this distribution. The OSSOS detections confirm that the 2:1 resonance has a dynamically colder inclination distribution than either the 3:2 or 5:2 resonances. Using the combined OSSOS and CFEPS 2:1 detections, we constrain the fraction of 2:1 objects in the symmetric mode of libration to 0.2-0.85; we also constrain the fraction of asymmetric librators in the leading island, which has been theoretically predicted to vary depending on Neptuneʼs migration history, to be 0.05-0.8. Future OSSOS blocks will improve these constraints.
The Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) may preserve evidence of planet building in their orbital and size-distributions. While all populations show steep sizedistributions for large objects, recently relative deficit of Neptunian Trojans and scattering objects with diameters D < 100 km were detected. We have investigated this deficit with a 32 square degree survey, detecting 77 TNOs to a limiting r-band magnitude of 24.6. Our Plutinos sample (18 objects in 3:2 mean motion resonance with Neptune) also shows a deficit of D < 100 km objects. We reject a single power-law size-distribution and find that the Plutinos favour a divot.The Plutinos are thus added the list of populations with a deficit of D < 100 km objects. The fact that three independent samples of three different populations show this trend suggests that it is a real feature, possibly shared by all hot TNO populations as a remnant of "born big" planetesimal formation processes. We surmise the existence of 9000 ± 3000 Plutinos with H r ≤ 8.66 and 37000 +12000 −10000Plutinos with H r ≤ 10.0. Our survey also discovered one temporary Uranian Trojan, one temporary Neptunian Trojans and one stable Neptunian Trojan, from which we derive populations of 110 +500 −100 , 210 +900 −200 and 150 +600 −140 , respectively, with H r ≤ 10.0. The Neptunian Trojans are thus less numerous than the main belt asteroids, which has over 700 asteroids with H r ≤ 10.0. With such numbers, the temporary Neptunian Trojans cannot be previously stable Trojans that happen to be escaping the resonance now; they must be captured from another reservoir.With three 3:1 and one 4:1 resonators, we add to the growing evidence that the high-order resonances are more populated than expected. Subject headings: Trans-Neptunian Objects(1 AU) 2 )) with information from
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