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TAOS: The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey

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The First Decadal Review of the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt

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The Taiwanese—American Occultation Survey (TAOS) seeks to determine the number and size spectrum for small (~ 3 km) bodies in the Kuiper Belt. This will be accomplished by searching for the brief occultations of bright stars (R ~ 14) by these objects. We have designed and built a special purpose photometric monitoring system for this purpose. TAOS comprises four 50 cm telescopes, each equipped with a 2048 × 2048 pixel CCD camera, in a compact array located in the central highlands of Taiwan. TAOS will monitor up to 3, 000 stars at 5 Hz. The system will go into scientific operation at the end of 2003.

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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA

    C. Alcock, R. Dave, J. Giammarco, J. Goldader & M. Lehner

  2. Institutes for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

    S.-K. King, T. Lee, A. Wang, S.-Y. Wang & C.-Y. Wen

  3. Department of Astronomy, National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan

    W. P. Chen

  4. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA

    K. Cook, S. Marshall & R. Porrata

  5. Yonsei University Observatory, Seoul, South Korea

    Y.-I. Byun

  6. University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

    I. De Pater & J. Rice

  7. NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA, USA

    J. Lissauer

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  1. UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Edinburgh, UK

    John K. Davies

  2. Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile

    Luis H. Barrera

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Alcock, C. et al. (2004). TAOS: The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey. In: Davies, J.K., Barrera, L.H. (eds) The First Decadal Review of the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3321-2_40

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