End-to-end Simulations of the Performance of the Whipple Survey of the Outer Solar System

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Oct 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010dps....42.4920s&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #42, #49.20; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.1007

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The proposed Whipple mission will detect occultations of bright stars by many Kuiper Belt Objects, Sedna-like Objects and Oort Cloud Objects. This census will be used to address a large number of questions regarding the physical and dynamical properties of the various small body populations of the Solar System. These data will help elucidate the process of formation of macroscopic bodies in the primitive solar system, the history of giant planet migration, and the interactions of planet scattering with the local stellar environment that led to the population of the Oort Cloud, and possibly during the first few million years, of the Sedna region.
We have developed a series of tools that simulate stellar populations, occultation light curves (including noise), onboard detection and our fitting routines. We describe all the routines and the simulation pipeline as well as details of the detection algorithms, including statistical arguments.
Results of expected rates for different model populations are also presented, demonstrating the anticipated performance and event yield for the mission. These simulations show how Whipple will measure size distributions as a function of (three dimensional) position for these populations.

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