Spacewatch - Observational Constraints on the Centaur Population

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Sep 1996

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American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #28, #10.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 28, p.1096

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Spacewatch surveying has resulted in the discovery of three new Centaurs and an independent re-discovery of (2060) Chiron. We have determined the efficiency of the Spacewatch system as a function of an object's apparent visual magnitude and rate of motion. Convolving these efficiencies with the scanning pattern of the telescope and a theoretical orbit distribution for the Centaurs allows us to determine the system's efficiency as a function of their absolute magnitude (H). The efficiency is non-zero for objects larger than about 40 km diameter (-4

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