Deep Imaging of the Kuiper Belt with the Keck 10 Meter Telescope

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Jul 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998apj...502l..91l&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal Letters v.502, p.L91

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

36

Comets: General, Solar System: Formation

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We present a new, pencil-beam survey of the Kuiper Belt taken with the Keck 10 m telescope. The cumulative surface density of Kuiper Belt Objects measured to apparent red magnitude mR=26.1 is 31^{+12}_{-14} deg-2, while to mR=26.6 it is 40+/-33 deg-2. These numbers are compatible with an extrapolation of the luminosity function deduced earlier from measurements in the 20<=mR<=25 range, and they confirm a Kuiper Belt differential size distribution index q~4 .

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