TAOS: The Taiwanese–American Occultation Survey

TAOS: The Taiwanese–American Occultation Survey

The Taiwanese–American Occultation Survey (TAOS) seeks to determinethe number and size spectrum for small (∼3 km) bodies in the KuiperBelt. This will be accomplished by searching for the brief occultations of brightstars (R∼14) by these objects. We have designed and built a specialpurpose photometri...

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Veröffentlicht in:Earth, moon, and planets moon, and planets, 2003-06, Vol.92 (1-4), p.459-464
Hauptverfasser: Alcock, C., Dave, R., Giammarco, J., Goldader, J., Lehner, M., King, S.-K., Lee, T., Wang, A., Wang, S.-Y., Wen, C.-Y., Chen, W. P., Cook, K., Marshall, S., Porrata, R., Byun, Y.-I., de Pater, I., Rice, J., Lissauer, J.
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Sprache:eng
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Monitoring systems
Occultation
Telescopes
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Zusammenfassung:The Taiwanese–American Occultation Survey (TAOS) seeks to determinethe number and size spectrum for small (∼3 km) bodies in the KuiperBelt. This will be accomplished by searching for the brief occultations of brightstars (R∼14) by these objects. We have designed and built a specialpurpose photometric monitoring system for this purpose. TAOS comprisesfour 50 cm telescopes, each equipped with a 2048×2048 pixel CCDcamera, in a compact array located in the central highlands of Taiwan. TAOSwill monitor up to 3,000 stars at 5 Hz. The system will go into scientificoperation at the end of 003.
ISSN:0167-9295
1573-0794
DOI:10.1023/B:MOON.0000031960.82021.26