Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Centaur Population

Authors: Kathryn Volk (1), Maria Womack (2), Jordan Steckloff (1)
(1) Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, USA
(2) University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

Chapter 2: Formation of Planetesimals in the Outer Solar System

Authors: Anders Johansen (1), Kelsi Singer (2), Luke Dones (2), Michele Bannister (3), Seth Jacobson (4)
(1) University of Copenhagen
(2) Southwest Research Institute
(3) University of Canterbury
(4) Michigan State University

Chapter 3: Dynamics of Centaurs and links to scattering and comet populations

Authors: Romina P. Di Sisto (1), Tabare Gallardo (2), Luke Dones (3)
(1) Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas, UNLP and Instituto de Astrofísica de La Plata, CCT La Plata-CONICET-UNLP, Argentina
(2) Facultad de Ciencias, Udelar, Uruguay
(3) Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, USA

Chapter 4: Centaur Nuclei: Sizes, Shapes, Structure, and Composition

Authors: Yan Fernandez (1),  Marc Buie (2), Pedro Lacerda (3), Raphael Marschall (4)
(1) University of Central Florida
(2) Southwest Research Institute
(3) Instituto Pedro Nunes, Portugal
(4) CNRS, Observatoire de la Cote d’Azur

Chapter 5: Surface chemical composition

Authors: Nuno Peixinho (1), Javier Licandro (2), Alvaro Alvarez-Candal (3), Eva Lilly (4), A.C. Souza-Feliciano (5) ,Tom Seccull (6)
(1) Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Departamento de Física, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
(2) Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain
(3) Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Granada, Spain
(4) Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, USA
(5) Florida Space Institute/University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
(6) Gemini Observatory/NSF’s NOIRLab, Hilo, HI, USA

Chapter 6: Volatiles

Authors: Kathleen Mandt (1), Oleksandra Ivanova (2,3,4), Olga Harrington Pinto (5), Nathan X. Roth (1,6), Darryl Z. Seligman (7)
(1) NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
(2) Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
(3) Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
(4) Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Astronomical Observatory, Ukraine
(5) Department of Physics, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA
(6) Department of Physics, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA
(7) Department of Astronomy and Carl Sagan Institute, Cornell University, 122 Sciences Drive, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA

Chapter 7: Evolutionary Processes in the Centaur Region

Authors: Rosita Kokotanekova (1), Aurelie Guilbert-Lepoutre (2), Matthew M. Knight (3), Jean-Baptiste Vincent (4)
(1) Institute of Astronomy and National Astronomical Observatory, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
(2) Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon: Terre, Planètes, Environnement, UMR 5276 CNRS, UCBL, ENSL, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
(3) Physics Department, United States Naval Academy, 572C Holloway Road, Annapolis, MD 21402, USA
(4) DLR Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin, Germany

Chapter 8: Activity, Outbursts & Explosions

Authors: James Bauer (1), Gal Sarid (2), Oleksanda Ivanova (3), Adam McKay (4)
(1) University of Maryland
(2) SETI Institute
(3) Astronomical Institute, Slovak Academy of Science
(4) Appalachian State University

Chapter 9: The Near-Centaur Environment: Satellites, Rings, and Debris

Authors: Amanda A. Sickafoose (1), Silvia M. Giuliatti Winter (2), Rodrigo Leiva (3), Cathy B. Olkin (4), Darin Ragozzine (5), Laura M. Woodney (6)
(1) Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, USA
(2) São Paulo State University, São Paulo, Brazil
(3) Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Granada, Spain
(4) Muon Space, Mountain View, CA, USA
(5) Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA
(6) Cal State University San Bernadino, San Bernadino, CA, USA

Chapter 10: Notable and Well-Studied Centaurs

Authors: Theodore Kareta (1), Charles Schambeau (2), Kacper Weirzchos (3)
(1) Lowell Observatory
(2) University of Central Florida
(3) University of Arizona

Chapter 11: Observational Campaigns

Authors: Laura Woodney (1), Amanda Bosh (2), John Noonan (3)
(1) Cal State University San Bernadino
(2) Lowell Observatory
(3) Auburn University

Chapter 12: Centaurs deep interior

Authors: Masatoshi Hirabayashi (1), Paul Sánchez (2), Gal Sarid (3)
(1) Georgia Institute of Technology
(2) CU-Boulder
(3) SETI

Chapter 13: Laboratory Studies applicable to Centaurs

Authors: Julie Brisset (1), Rosario Brunetto (3), Mark Burchell (4), Will Grundy (5), Murthy Gudipati (6), Bastian Gundlach (7), Elsa Hénault (3)
(1) Florida Space Institute, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
(2) Institut für Geophysik und Extraterrestrische Physik, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
(3) Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
(4) Centre for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, University of Kent, UK
(5) Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
(6) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA
(7) Institut for Planetology, Universität Münster, Germany

Chapter 14: New Observational Studies: Early results from JWST and future prospects with JWST, Rubin Observatory, and the Extremely Large Telescopes

Authors: Estela Fernandez-Valenzuela (1), Aurelie Guilbert-Lepoutre (2), Megan E. Schwamb (3), Charles Schambeau (1), Flavia Luane-Rommel  (1), Bryan J. Holler (4)
(1) Florida Space Institute, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
(2) Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon: Terre, Planètes, Environnement, UMR 5276 CNRS, UCBL, ENSL, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
(3) Astrophysics Research Centre, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK
(4) STScI

Chapter 15: Cosmochemistry and Astrobiology of Centaurs

Authors: Myriam Telus (1), Zita Martins (2)
(1) Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, CA, USA
(2) Centro de Química Estrutural, Institute of Molecular Sciences and Department of Chemical
Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Chapter 16: Centaur Missions

Authors: Walt Harris (1), Alan Stern, et al.
(1) University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
(2) Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, USA

Chapter 17: Conclusions

Authors: Maria Womack (1), Jordan Steckloff (2), Kathryn Volk (2)
(1) University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
(2) Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, USA