Observations of the distant Kuiper belt Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Schwamb M.E.
  2. Brown M.E.
  3. Rabinowitz D.L.
  4. Ragozzine D.
  5. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present the results of a wide-field survey using the 1.2m Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory. This survey was designed to find the most distant members of the Kuiper Belt and beyond. We searched ~12000deg^2^ down to a mean limiting magnitude of 21.3 in R. A total number of 52 Kuiper Belt objects and Centaurs have been detected, 25 of which were discovered in this survey. Except for the redetection of Sedna, no additional Sedna-like bodies with perihelia greater than 45AU were detected despite sensitivity out to distances of 1000AU. We discuss the implications for a distant Sedna-like population beyond the Kuiper Belt, focusing on the constraints we can place on the embedded stellar cluster environment the early Sun may be have been born in, where the location and distribution of Sedna-like orbits sculpted by multiple stellar encounters is indicative of the birth cluster size. We also report our observed latitude distribution and implications for the size of the plutino population.

Keywords
  1. solar-system
  2. asteroids
  3. apparent-magnitude
  4. surveys
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2010ApJ...720.1691S
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/720/1691
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/720/1691
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.17201691

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History

2012-07-24T09:31:26Z
Resource record created
2012-07-24T09:31:26Z
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2012-08-11T15:20:43Z
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