Kuiper Belt searches from the Palomar 5-m telescope
| dc.creator | Gladman, Brett | |
| dc.creator | Kavelaars, JJ | |
| dc.date | 1996-10-20 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T02:22:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T02:22:07Z | |
| dc.description | Motivated by a desire to understand the size distributon of the Kuiper Belt, an observing program was conducted at the Mount Palomar 5-m telescope from 1994-1996. The observations consisted of follow-up observations of known objects (in order to improve their very indeterminate orbits), and deep exposures on a single field to search for small objects below the limiting magnitudes of other surveys. Eighteen object recoveries were successfully obtained over the course of the follow-up program. Data reduction of the deep fields consisted of a software recombination of many fields shifted at different angular rates in order to detect objects at differing heliocentric distances. We set an upper limit of <1 object per 0.05 square degrees in the ecliptic brighter than magnitude R ~ 25. The lack of detected objects in this work serves to help constrain the number density of Kuiper Belt comets. | |
| dc.description | 4 pages, 2 figures, accepted by A&A Letters | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9610150 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9610150 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/10756 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | Kuiper Belt searches from the Palomar 5-m telescope | |
| dc.type | text |