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Distinguishing KBO from Asteroid Occultations in TAOS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Claudia Lemme  and
Chyng-Lan Liang
Claudia Lemme
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, National Central University, 32054 Chung-Li, Taiwan
Chyng-Lan Liang
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Abstract

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The goal of the Taiwan-America Occultation Survey (TAOS) project is to estimate directly the number of Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) by measuring the rate of stellar occultations. Occultations of distant stars may also be caused by asteroids and this article describes how both types of occultations can be distinguished on the basis of their shadow ground speed on Earth and the observing angle.

Type
VI. Solar System Studies
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 183: Small-Telescope Astronomy on Global Scales , 2001 , pp. 259 - 260
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001