Occultation Searches for Kuiper Belt Objects
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Occultation Searches for Kuiper Belt Objects
The occultation of background stellar sources by foreground Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) can be used to survey physical properties of the KBO population. We discuss statistics related to a KBO occultation survey, such as the event duration distribution, and suggest that occultation searches can be effectively used to probe the KBO size distribution below 10 km. In particular, we suggest that occu...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Astrophysical Journal
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0004-637X,1538-4357
DOI: 10.1086/375288