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