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Post-New Horizons orbits and masses for the satellites of Pluto

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We report on ephemerides for the satellites of Pluto based on the large set of astrometric measurements. Our orbit fit yielded the following masses: $GM_{Pluto}=869.0 \pm 0.9~km^3s^{-2}$, $GM_{Charon}=106.4 \pm 0.5~km^3s^{-2}$, $GM_{Nix}=1.41 \pm 0.52\times 10^{-3}~km^3s^{-2}$, $GM_{Hydra}=2.02 \pm 0.27\times 10^{-3}~km^3s^{-2}$, corresponding to the densities of $\rho_{Pluto}=1.852 \pm 0.004~g~cm^{-3}$, $\rho_{Charon}=1.710 \pm 0.009~g~cm^{-3}$, $\rho_{Nix}=0.83\pm 0.31~g~cm^{-3}$, $\rho_{Hydra}=1.22\pm 0.19~g~cm^{-3}$. Masses of Kerberos and Styx remain unconstrained, and it is unlikely that we will be able to measure them even if we obtain abundant 1 mas precision astrometry during the next 20 years. We summarize the results of orbit integration in terms of osculating and precessing ellipse mean elements. All satellites reside in near-circular orbits, and Kerberos and Styx have 0.4 deg and 0.3 deg inclinations with respect to Charon's orbit plane. We found that Charon's orbit pole can be approximated as: $RA=133.0065 + 0.003653T$ deg, $Dec=-6.2447+2.7\times10^{-5}T$, where $T$ is Julian centuries from the epoch J2000, based on 5000 years of orbit integration. The nodal regression periods for Kerberos and Hydra are $\sim$ 9 and $\sim$ 14 years respectively, and Hydra appears to have the apsidal precession with the similar period as the node.
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