Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-03-19
Astron.J.134:1596-1612,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
25 pages, 26 figures
Scientific paper
10.1086/521396
The serendipitous detection of stellar occultations by Outer Solar System objects is a powerful method for ascertaining the small end ($r \lesssim 15$ km) of the size distribution of Kuiper Belt Objects and may potentially allow the exploration of objects as far out as the Oort Cloud. The design and implementation of an occultation survey is aided by a detailed understanding of how diffraction and observational parameters affect the detection of occultation events. In this study, stellar occultations are simulated, accounting for diffraction effects, finite source sizes, finite bandwidths, stellar spectra, sampling, and signal-to-noise. Finally, the possibility of detecting small Outer Solar System objects from the Kuiper Belt all the way out to the Oort Cloud is explored for three photometric systems: a proposed space telescope, Whipple (Kaplan et al. 2003), the Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey (Lehner et al. 2006), and the Multi Mirror Telescope (Bianco 2007).
Alcock Charles
Bianco Federica B.
Giammarco J. M.
King Sun-Kun
Lehner Matthew J.
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