A Detection Method for Small Kuiper Belt Objects: The Search for Stellar Occultations

Icarus

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 530-544

  Roques, Françoise ^a   Moncuquet, Michel ^a  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Kuiper Belt objects; Occultations; Photometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043052243     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6452     Document Type: Article

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