Search for Small Trans-Neptunian Objects by the TAOS Project
The Taiwan-America Occultation Survey (TAOS) aims to determine the number of small icy bodies in the outer reach of the Solar System by means of stellar occultation. An array of 4 robotic small (D=0.5 m), wide-field (f/1.9) telescopes have been installed at Lulin Observatory in Taiwan to simultaneou...
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| author | Chen, W Alcock, C Axelrod, T Bianco, F Byun, Y Chang, Y Cook, K Dave, R Giammarco, J Kim, D King, S Lee, T Lehner, M Lin, C Lin, H Lissauer, J Marshall, S Meinshausen, N Mondal, S Pater, I Porrata, R Rice, J Schwamb, M Wang, A Wang, S |
| author_facet | Chen, W Alcock, C Axelrod, T Bianco, F Byun, Y Chang, Y Cook, K Dave, R Giammarco, J Kim, D King, S Lee, T Lehner, M Lin, C Lin, H Lissauer, J Marshall, S Meinshausen, N Mondal, S Pater, I Porrata, R Rice, J Schwamb, M Wang, A Wang, S |
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| description | The Taiwan-America Occultation Survey (TAOS) aims to determine the number of small icy bodies in the outer reach of the Solar System by means of stellar occultation. An array of 4 robotic small (D=0.5 m), wide-field (f/1.9) telescopes have been installed at Lulin Observatory in Taiwan to simultaneously monitor some thousand of stars for such rare occultation events. Because a typical occultation event by a TNO a few km across will last for only a fraction of a second, fast photometry is necessary. A special CCD readout scheme has been devised to allow for stellar photometry taken a few times per second. Effective analysis pipelines have been developed to process stellar light curves and to correlate any possible flux changes among all telescopes. A few billion photometric measurements have been collected since the routine survey began in early 2005. Our preliminary result of a very low detection rate suggests a deficit of small TNOs down to a few km size, consistent with the extrapolation of some recent studies of larger (30--100 km) TNOs. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:ac3f5846-faea-431a-aa1d-37f9668c17e72022-03-27T03:27:42ZSearch for Small Trans-Neptunian Objects by the TAOS ProjectJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:ac3f5846-faea-431a-aa1d-37f9668c17e7EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2006Chen, WAlcock, CAxelrod, TBianco, FByun, YChang, YCook, KDave, RGiammarco, JKim, DKing, SLee, TLehner, MLin, CLin, HLissauer, JMarshall, SMeinshausen, NMondal, SPater, IPorrata, RRice, JSchwamb, MWang, AWang, SThe Taiwan-America Occultation Survey (TAOS) aims to determine the number of small icy bodies in the outer reach of the Solar System by means of stellar occultation. An array of 4 robotic small (D=0.5 m), wide-field (f/1.9) telescopes have been installed at Lulin Observatory in Taiwan to simultaneously monitor some thousand of stars for such rare occultation events. Because a typical occultation event by a TNO a few km across will last for only a fraction of a second, fast photometry is necessary. A special CCD readout scheme has been devised to allow for stellar photometry taken a few times per second. Effective analysis pipelines have been developed to process stellar light curves and to correlate any possible flux changes among all telescopes. A few billion photometric measurements have been collected since the routine survey began in early 2005. Our preliminary result of a very low detection rate suggests a deficit of small TNOs down to a few km size, consistent with the extrapolation of some recent studies of larger (30--100 km) TNOs. |
| spellingShingle | Chen, W Alcock, C Axelrod, T Bianco, F Byun, Y Chang, Y Cook, K Dave, R Giammarco, J Kim, D King, S Lee, T Lehner, M Lin, C Lin, H Lissauer, J Marshall, S Meinshausen, N Mondal, S Pater, I Porrata, R Rice, J Schwamb, M Wang, A Wang, S Search for Small Trans-Neptunian Objects by the TAOS Project |
| title | Search for Small Trans-Neptunian Objects by the TAOS Project |
| title_full | Search for Small Trans-Neptunian Objects by the TAOS Project |
| title_fullStr | Search for Small Trans-Neptunian Objects by the TAOS Project |
| title_full_unstemmed | Search for Small Trans-Neptunian Objects by the TAOS Project |
| title_short | Search for Small Trans-Neptunian Objects by the TAOS Project |
| title_sort | search for small trans neptunian objects by the taos project |
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