Kuiper Belt searches from the Palomar 5-m telescope

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1996-10-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9610150v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 2 figures, accepted by A&A Letters

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Motivated by a desire to understand the size distributon of the Kuiper Belt, an observing program was conducted at the Mount Palomar 5-m telescope from 1994-1996. The observations consisted of follow-up observations of known objects (in order to improve their very indeterminate orbits), and deep exposures on a single field to search for small objects below the limiting magnitudes of other surveys. Eighteen object recoveries were successfully obtained over the course of the follow-up program. Data reduction of the deep fields consisted of a software recombination of many fields shifted at different angular rates in order to detect objects at differing heliocentric distances. We set an upper limit of <1 object per 0.05 square degrees in the ecliptic brighter than magnitude R ~ 25. The lack of detected objects in this work serves to help constrain the number density of Kuiper Belt comets.

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