Upper limits on the number of small bodies in Sedna-like orbits by the TAOS project

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 138, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1893-1901

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

^a INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^f Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   (United States)

ⁱ NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^j STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Kuiper Belt; occultations; solar system: formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049513763     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-6256/138/6/1893     Document Type: Article

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