TAOS: The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey

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Jun 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003em%26p...92..459a&link_type=abstract

Earth, Moon, and Planets, v. 92, Issue 1, p. 459-464 (2003).

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The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey (TAOS) seeks to determine the number and size spectrum for small (~3 km) bodies in the Kuiper Belt. This will be accomplished by searching for the brief occultations of bright stars (R~14) by these objects. We have designed and built a special purpose photometric monitoring system for this purpose. TAOS comprises four 50 cm telescopes, each equipped with a 2048×2048 pixel CCD camera, in a compact array located in the central highlands of Taiwan. TAOS will monitor up to 3,000 stars at 5 Hz. The system will go into scientific operation at the end of 003.

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