A search for occultations of bright stars by small kuiper belt objects using megacam on the MMT

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 568-578

  Bianco, F B ^a,b,c   Protopapas, P ^b,c   McLeod, B A ^b   Alcock, C R ^b   Holman, M J ^b   Lehner, M J ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c Academia Sinica ^*  (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Formation; Kuiper Belt solar system

Indexed keywords

EID: 70549088002     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-6256/138/2/568     Document Type: Article

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