Large Kuiper Belt Objects: The Mauna Kea 8K CCD Survey

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May 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998aj....115.2125j&link_type=abstract

The Astronomical Journal, Volume 115, Issue 5, pp. 2125-2135.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Celestial Mechanics, Stellar Dynamics, Kuiper Belt Objects, Minor Planets, Asteroids

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We describe a large-area ecliptic survey designed to assess the sky-plane surface density of bright Kuiper Belt objects. We used an 8192 x 8192 pixel CCD mosaic to image 51.5 deg^2 to a 50% detection threshold red magnitude m_R = 22.5. Thirteen new Kuiper Belt objects were identified in the survey, including some of the brightest and, presumably, largest known examples. We use Monte Carlo models to assess the effects of observational bias in our survey and to examine (1) the size distribution of bright objects in the Kuiper Belt, (2) the possible existence of a cutoff in the size distribution at large radii, (3) the intrinsic ratio of Plutinos to nonresonant (``classical'') Kuiper Belt objects, (4) the intrinsic ratio of populations in the 3:2 and 2:1 mean motion resonances, and (5) the radial extent of the Kuiper Belt.

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