First Results From The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey (TAOS)

Z.-W. Zhang , F. B. Bianco , M. J. Lehner , N. K. Coehlo , J.-H. Wang , S. Mondal , C. Alcock , T. Axelrod

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Y.-I. Byun W.-P. Chen K. H. Cook R. Dave I. de Pater R. Porrata D.-W. Kim S.-K. King T. Lee H.-C. Lin J. J. Lissauer S. L. Marshall P. Protopapas J. A. Rice M. E. Schwamb S.-Y. Wang C.-Y. Wen

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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.

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First Results From The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey (TAOS)

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