Unbiased Inclination Distributions for Objects in the Kuiper Belt by Gulbis, Amanda A. S., Elliot, James L., Adams, Elisabeth Rose, Benecchi, Susan D., Buie, Marc W., Trilling, David E., Wasserman, L. H.

“…Using data from the Deep Ecliptic Survey (DES), we investigate the inclination distributions of objects in the Kuiper Belt. We present a derivation for observational bias removal and use this procedure to generate unbiased inclination distributions for Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) of different DES dynamical classes, with respect to the Kuiper Belt plane. …”
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THE SURFACE COMPOSITION OF LARGE KUIPER BELT OBJECT 2007 OR10 by Brown, M. E., Burgasser, Adam J., Fraser, W. C.

“…While most objects in the Kuiper belt with water ice absorption this prominent have the optically neutral colors of water ice, 2007 OR10 is among the reddest Kuiper belt objects known. …”
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De-biased populations of Kuiper Belt objects from the Deep Ecliptic Survey by Adams, Elisabeth Rose, Benecchi, Susan D., Buie, Marc W., Trilling, D. E., Wasserman, L. H., Gulbis, Amanda A. S., Elliot, James L.

“…The Deep Ecliptic Survey (DES) was a survey project that discovered hundreds of Kuiper Belt objects from 1998 to 2005. Extensive follow-up observations of these bodies has yielded 304 objects with well-determined orbits and dynamical classifications into one of several categories: Classical, Scattered, Centaur, or 16 mean-motion resonances with Neptune. …”
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Similar origin for low- and high-albedo Jovian Trojans and Hilda asteroids? by Marsset, M., Vernazza, P., Gourgeot, F., Dumas, C., Lamy, P., Birlan, Mirel, Binzel, Richard P

“…Hilda asteroids and Jupiter Trojans are two low-albedo (p[subscript v] ~ 0.07) populations for which the Nice model predicts an origin in the primordial Kuiper Belt region. However, recent surveys by WISE and the Spitzer Space Telescope (SST) have revealed that ~2% of these objects possess high albedos (p[subscript v] ≥ 0.15), which might indicate interlopers – that is, objects not formed in the Kuiper Belt – among these two populations. …”
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CHIMERA: a wide-field, multi-colour, high-speed photometer at the prime focus of the Hale telescope by Harding, L. K., Hallinan, G., Milburn, J., Gardner, P., Konidaris, N., Singh, N., Shao, M., Sandhu, J., Kyne, G., Schlichting, Hilke E

“…CHIMERA was primarily developed to enable the characterization of the size distribution of sub-km Kuiper Belt Objects via stellar occultation, a science case that motivates the frame-rate, the simultaneous multi-colour imaging and the wide field of view of the instrument. …”
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