The taos project: Upper bounds on the population of small kuiper belt objects and tests of models of formation and evolution of the outer solar system

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1499-1514

  Bianco, F B ^a,b,c,d   Zhang, Z W ^e,f   Lehner, M J ^c,d,e   Mondal, S ^g   King, S K ^e   Giammarco, J ^h,i   Holman, M J ^d   Coehlo, N K ^j   Wang, J H ^e,f   Alcock, C ^d   Axelrod, T ^k   Byun, Y I ^l   Chen, W P ^f   Cook, K H ^m   Dave, R ⁿ   De Pater, I ^j   Kim, D W ^l,n   Lee, T ^e   Lin, H C ^e   Lissauer, J J ^o   Marshall, S L ^p   Protopapas, P ^d,n   Rice, J A ^j   Schwamb, M E ^q   Wang, S Y ^e   Wen, C Y ^e   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAS CUMBRES OBSERVATORY GLOBAL TELESCOPE NETWORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^f NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^g ARYABHATTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF OBSERVATIONAL SCIENCES ARIES   (India)

^h EASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^l Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^m Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   (United States)

ⁿ HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^p STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Kuiper belt: general; Occultations

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949517127     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-6256/139/4/1499     Document Type: Article

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