TAOS - The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey

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Sep 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006an....327..814l&link_type=abstract

Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol.327, Issue 8, p.814

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Kuiper Belt, Occultations, Methods: Observational, Telescopes

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The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey (TAOS) seeks to determine the number and size spectrum for small (˜3 km) bodies in the Kuiper Belt. This will be accomplished by searching for the brief occultations of bright stars (R˜14) by these objects. We have designed and built a special purpose photometric monitoring system for this purpose. TAOS comprises four 50 cm telescopes, each equipped with a 2048×2048 pixel CCD camera, in a compact array located in the central highlands of Taiwan. TAOS will monitor up to 2 000 stars at 5 Hz. The system went into scientific operation in the autumn of 2005.

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