A Southern Sky and Galactic Plane Survey for Bright Kuiper Belt Objects

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Oct 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010dps....42.2310s&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #42, #23.10; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.992

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The OGLE Carnegie Kuiper belt Survey (OCKS) is one of the first Southern sky surveys for bright outer solar system objects. Starting in 2009 we have covered a few thousand square degrees South of Declination -25 degrees where Northern KBO surveys cannot efficiently observe. The surveyed area includes almost all of the Southern sky within about 30 degrees of the ecliptic. Our survey obtains a limiting magnitude of about 21.5 in the R-band during optimal observing conditions using the 1.3 meter Warsaw telescope at Las Campanas observatory in Chile. We have also covered the area near the ecliptic within the line-of-sight of the galactic plane for the first time using optimal image subtraction techniques in order to find moving objects with the high stellar density background removed. To date our survey has discovered tens of bright Trans-Neptunian objects including several of the most Southern outer Solar System objects ever detected as well as some of the intrinsically brightest Solar System objects discovered in several years (2010 EK139 with H=3.8 and 2010 KZ39 with H=3.9).

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