CFEPS [Canada-France Ecliptic Plane Survey]: The Details.

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Sep 2006

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American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #38, #44.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 38, p.564

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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We report the bulk properties of the Kuiper belt as observed by CFEPS, the Canada-France Ecliptic Plane Survey. CFEPS is based on images acquired as part of the Very-Wide component of the CFHT Legacy Survey, CFHTLS-VW. Over the previous three years CFHTLS-VW has repeatedly observed 400 square degrees of sky, with a cadence optimized for the detection of Kuiper belt objects [see presentation by Petit et al. at this meeting]. The driving goal of the CFEPS project is to provide a well characterized survey of the Kuiper belt that does not suffer from hidden 'tracking' bias and can therefore be used to test theoretical models of the Kuiper belt [see presentation by Gladman et al. at this meeting]. The CFEPS team is providing a survey simulator that will allow modelers to directly compare their orbit distribution prediction to that of the observed Kuiper belt.
The bulk orbital properties of Kuiper belt objects as determined from the first years discovery and 3 years of tracking observations by the CFEPS Project:
Tracking: 94 square degrees surveyed, 74 KBOs detected, 55 tracked to 4 through oppositions.
Of the 55 objects tracked: 34 are classical belt objects, 17 are resonant objects, 2 are scattered disk members and 2 appear to be from the extended scattered disk.
This work is based in part on data products produced at CFHT and the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre as part of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey, a collaborative project of NRC and CNRS.

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