Procedures, Resources, and Selected Results of the Deep Ecliptic Survey

Details Procedures, Resources, and Selected Results of the Deep Ecliptic Survey Procedures, Resources, and Selected Results of the Deep Ecliptic Survey

2003-09-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0309251v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Earth, Moon, and Planets, as part of First Decadal Review of the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt special issue, peer-reviewed and accept

Scientific paper

10.1023/B:MOON.0000031930.13823.

The Deep Ecliptic Survey is a project whose goal is to survey a large area of the near-ecliptic region to a faint limiting magnitude (R ~ 24) in search of objects in the outer solar system. We are collecting a large homogeneous data sample from the Kitt Peak Mayall 4-m and Cerro Tololo Blanco 4-m telescopes with the Mosaic prime-focus CCD cameras. Our goal is to collect a sample of 500 objects with good orbits to further our understanding of the dynamical structure of the outer solar system. This survey has been in progress since 1998 and is responsible for 272 designated discoveries as of March 2003. We summarize our techniques, highlight recent results, and describe publically available resources.

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