Detectability of occultations of stars by objects in the kuiper belt and Oort Cloud

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1596-1612

  Nihei, T C ^a,b   Lehner, M J ^b   Bianco, F B ^a,b   King, S K ^c   Giammarco, J M ^d   Alcock, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^d Temple University   (United States)

Author keywords

Comets: general; Kuiper Belt; Oort Cloud; Solar system: formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348890759     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/521396     Document Type: Article

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