Computer Science
Scientific paper
Oct 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011epsc.conf.1094s&link_type=abstract
EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.1094
Computer Science
Scientific paper
We present the first results from the La Silla-QUEST survey, a wide-field survey using the 1.0-m ESO Schmidt Telescope at La Silla Observatory. The goal of this survey is to find the largest and brightest members of the Kuiper belt in the Southern hemisphere down to a limiting magnitude of ~21.5 in R. With the majority of our sky coverage, south of - 20 degrees ecliptic latitude, our survey probes the high inclination Kuiper belt. The discovery of 2008 KV42, a Kuiper belt object (KBO) with a perihelion near Uranus and an extreme inclination of 104 degrees, suggests a population of bodies on similar orbits with high inclinations compared to typical KBOs and Centaurs. Our survey is sensitive to such orbits. We highlight our survey detections, including the detection of the new high-inclination object 2010 WG9. We discuss the implications for a population of high-inclination (nearly perpendicular) orbits in the Kuiper belt, placing constraints on the size and distribution of such a population.
Brasser Ramon
Hadjiyska Elena I.
Rabinowitz David L.
Schwamb Megan E.
Tourtellotte Suzanne
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