Primordial Solar System Ices

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Aug 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008noao.prop..434t&link_type=abstract

NOAO Proposal ID #2008B-0434

Computer Science

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The Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) may harbor the least thermally-altered material in the solar system and are thought to be remnants of the planet-forming era. Thus, study of their surfaces may lead to insights into the composition and formation process of planets in our solar system. We propose to conduct the first KBO photometric survey sensitive to volatile ices. In the past, JHK broadband colors of KBOs have been collected by many researchers with inconclusive results because such filters are tuned to avoid telluric features and bear only weak correlations to absorption features found on the brightest KBOs. We demonstrate that our custom bandpass filters which will be installed in Gemini/NIRI by 2008B will allow the classification of KBOs into water, methane and featureless surface types. Our proposed custom photometric survey is the first of its kind, and it will yield a much larger sample size than any previous spectral or photometric survey.

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