The TAOS project: Results from seven years of survey data

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Title:	The TAOS project: Results from seven years of survey data
Authors:	陳文屏;Zhang, Z.-W.;Lehner, M. J.;Wang, J.-H.;Wen, C.-Y.;Wang, S.-Y.;King, S.-K.;Granados, Á. P.;Alcock, C.;Axelrod, T.;Bianco, F. B.;Byun, Y.-I.;Chen, W. P.;Coehlo, N. K.;Cook, K. H.;de Pater, I.;Kim, D.-W.;Lee, T.;Lissauer, J. J.;Marshall, S. L.;Protopapas, P.;Rice, J. A.;Schwamb, M. E.
Contributors:	理學院天文研究所
Keywords:	ASTRONOMY;ASTROPHYSICS;ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;Break in;COMETS;Density;ECLIPSE;Kuiper belt;Kuiper Belt Objects;MONITORS;Occultation;READOUT SYSTEMS;Size distribution;Slopes;STARS;TELESCOPES
Date:	2013-07-01
Issue Date:	2026-04-21 14:21:23 (UTC+8)
Publisher:	IOP Publishing Ltd.;United States: American Astronomical Society
Abstract:	摘要： The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey (TAOS) aims to detect serendipitous occultations of stars by small (~1 km diameter) objects in the Kuiper Belt and beyond. Such events are very rare (<10 super(-3) events per star per year) and short in duration (~200 ms), so many stars must be monitored at a high readout cadence. TAOS monitors typically ~500 stars simultaneously at a 5 Hz readout cadence with four telescopes located at Lulin Observatory in central Taiwan. In this paper, we report the results of the search for small Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) in seven years of data. No occultation events were found, resulting in a 95% c.l. upper limit on the slope of the faint end of the KBO size distribution of q - 3.34-3.82, depending on the surface density at the break in the size distribution at a diameter of about 90 km. 出版者： United States: American Astronomical Society 出版日期： 2013-07-01 出處： The Astronomical Journal, 2013-07, Vol.146 (1), p.14--10 資源來源： Institute of Physics Journals 識別號： ISSN: 0004-6256 識別號： ISSN: 1538-3881 識別號： EISSN: 1538-3881 識別號： DOI: 10.1088/0004-6256/146/1/14
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