The Structure of the Kuiper Belt: Size Distribution and Radial Extent

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Aug 2001

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The Astronomical Journal, Volume 122, Issue 2, pp. 1051-1066.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

91

Comets: General, Kuiper Belt

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The size distribution in the Kuiper Belt records physical processes operating during the formation and subsequent evolution of the solar system. This paper reports a study of the apparent magnitude distribution of faint objects in the Kuiper Belt, obtained via deep imaging on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope and the ESO Very Large Telescope UT1. We find that the entire range of observed objects (magnitudes mR~20-27) is well represented by an unbroken power law, with the number of objects per square degree brighter than magnitude R being of the form Σ(mR~1 km. We report the discovery of several objects outside of 48 AU and discuss the evidence for a sharp outer edge to the trans-Neptunian distribution.

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