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The Luminosity Function of the Hot and Cold Kuiper belt Populations
Wesley C. Fraser, Michael E. Brown, Megan E. Schwamb
Abridged. We have performed an ecliptic survey of the Kuiper belt, with an areal coverage of 8.9 square degrees to a 50% limiting magnitude of r'=24.7, and have detected 88 Kuiper…
Properties of the Distant Kuiper Belt: Results from the Palomar Distant Solar System Survey
Megan E. Schwamb, Michael E. Brown, David L. Rabinowitz +1
We present the results of a wide-field survey using the 1.2-m Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory. This survey was designed to find the most distant members of the Kuipe…
Quaoar: A Rock in the Kuiper belt
W. C. Fraser, M. E. Brown
Here we report WFPC2 observations of the Quaoar-Weywot Kuiper belt binary. From these observations we find that Weywot is on an elliptical orbit with eccentricity of 0.14 {\pm} 0.0…