Editors: Kat Volk, Maria Womack, and Jordan Steckloff

This will be the first comprehensive research reference covering the Centaurs as a population of objects critical to our understanding of the formation and evolution of icy small bodies in the solar system. Topics to be reviewed in CENTAURS include

• the current states of Centaur observations and laboratory experiments
• connections to the Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), Jupiter family comets (JFCs), and other icy body populations
• current theories on the formation of Centaurs
• constraints on Centaurs’ physical properties (shapes, composition, surface properties, etc)
• our current best understanding of volatile outgassing, outbursting, surface evolution, ring formation, and other processes that affect Centaurs as they physically evolve
• proposed in situ exploration of Centaurs
• exciting new tools, such as the Vera Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) and JWST, which could transform our understanding of the Centaurs