Keck Pencil-Beam Survey for Faint Kuiper Belt Objects
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Keck Pencil-beam Survey for Faint Kuiper Belt Objects
We present the results of a pencil-beam survey of the Kuiper Belt using the Keck 10-m telescope. A single 0.01 square degree field is imaged 29 times for a total integration time of 4.8 hr. Combining exposures in software allows the detection of Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) having visual magnitude mV ∼< 27.9. Two new KBOs are discovered. One object having mV = 25.5 lies at a probable heliocentric...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Astronomical Journal
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0004-6256
DOI: 10.1086/301005