First Results From The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey (TAOS)
arXiv:0808.2051 · doi:10.1086/592741
Abstract
Results from the first two years of data from the Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey (TAOS) are presented. Stars have been monitored photometrically at 4 Hz or 5 Hz to search for occultations by small (~3 km) Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs). No statistically significant events were found, allowing us to present an upper bound to the size distribution of KBOs with diameters 0.5 km < D < 28 km.
arXiv comment5 pages, 5 figure, accepted in ApJ
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