UPPER LIMITS ON THE NUMBER OF SMALL BODIES IN SEDNA-LIKE ORBITS BY THE TAOS PROJECT

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Title:	UPPER LIMITS ON THE NUMBER OF SMALL BODIES IN SEDNA-LIKE ORBITS BY THE TAOS PROJECT
Authors:	Wang,JH;Lehner,MJ;Zhang,ZW;Bianco,FB;Alcock,C;Chen,WP;Axelrod,T;Byun,YI;Coehlo,NK;Cook,KH;Dave,R;de Pater,I;Porrata,R;Kim,DW;King,SK;Lee,T;Lin,HC;Lissauer,JJ;Marshall,SL;Protopapas,P;Rice,JA;Schwamb,ME;Wang,SY;Wen,CY
Contributors:	天文研究所
Keywords:	AMERICAN OCCULTATION SURVEY;2003 VB12 SEDNA;SOLAR-SYSTEM;KUIPER-BELT;OORT CLOUD;STELLAR OCCULTATIONS;COMET CLOUD;OBJECTS;ENCOUNTERS;PLANETS
Date:	2009
Issue Date:	2010-06-29 19:35:36 (UTC+8)
Publisher:	中央大學
Abstract:	We present the results of a search for occultation events by objects at distances between 100 and 1000 AU in light curves from the Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey. We searched for consecutive, shallow flux reductions in the stellar light curves obtained by our survey between 2005 February 7 and 2006 December 31 with a total of similar to 4.5 x 10(9) three-telescope simultaneous photometric measurements. No events were detected, allowing us to set upper limits on the number density as a function of size and distance of objects in Sedna-like orbits, using simple models.
Relation:	ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL
Appears in Collections:	[Graduate Institute of Astronomy] journal & Dissertation

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