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Table 4

Astrometric data for the relative position of Orcus/Vanth used to reconstruct their mutual orbit.

Date ΔX ΔY Δ r α δ Instr.
(JD) (″) (″) (AU) (AU) (°) (°)

2 453 687.66400 0.206 –0.147 47.811 47.702 144.039 –4.356 ACS
2 454 040.36900 0.226 –0.111 48.075 47.752 144.813 –4.729 ACS
2 454 044.36600 –0.258 –0.005 48.013 47.752 144.839 –4.766 ACS
2 454 051.57900 –0.006 –0.243 47.898 47.753 144.871 –4.828 ACS
2 454 056.08900 –0.036 0.240 47.824 47.754 144.882 –4.865 ACS
2 454 066.14600 0.053 0.240 47.659 47.755 144.882 –4.938 ACS
2 454 080.33600 –0.030 –0.244 47.433 47.757 144.824 –5.019 ACS
2 454 416.29300 –0.263 –0.024 47.968 47.801 145.703 –5.304 NICMOS3
2 454 439.78000 0.245 0.078 47.585 47.804 145.696 –5.473 WFPC2

2 455 250.73686 0.260 0.052 46.954 47.895 146.287 –6.396 SINFONI

Notes. 

(†)

The first block is reproduced from Brown et al. (2010) with the corrected values for the dates (see text). The second bloc corresponds to our appulse observation on 2010 February 23.

(‡)

Positions are positive through east and north.

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