A SERENDIPITOUS ALL SKY SURVEY FOR BRIGHT OBJECTS IN THE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM
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We use seven yearʼs worth of observations from the Catalina Sky Survey and the Siding Spring Survey covering most of the northern and southern hemisphere at galactic latitudes higher than 20° to search for serendipitously imaged moving objects in the outer solar system. These slowly moving objects would appear as stationary transients in these fast cadence asteroids surveys, so we develop methods to discover objects in the outer solar system using individual observations spaced by months, rather than spaced by hours, as is typically done. While we independently discover eight known bright objects in the outer solar system, the faintest having no new objects are discovered. We find that the survey is nearly 100% efficient at detecting objects beyond 25 AU for ( in the southern hemisphere) and that the probability that there is one or more remaining outer solar system object of this brightness left to be discovered in the unsurveyed regions of the galactic plane is approximately 32%.
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FIRST RESULTS FROM THE CATALINA REAL-TIME TRANSIENT SURVEY
Drake, A. J., Djorgovski, S. G., Mahabal, A., Beshore, E., Larson, S., Graham, M. J., Williams, R., Christensen, E., Catelan, M., Boattini, A., et al. (2009) · The Astrophysical Journal · doi:10.1088/0004-637x/696/1/870 · Cited by 1,318 · see citing works
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PROPERTIES OF THE DISTANT KUIPER BELT: RESULTS FROM THE PALOMAR DISTANT SOLAR SYSTEM SURVEY
Schwamb, M. E., Brown, M. E., Rabinowitz, D. L., & Ragozzine, D. (2010) · The Astrophysical Journal · doi:10.1088/0004-637x/720/2/1691 · Cited by 80 · see citing works
Self-citationThe Caltech Wide Area Sky Survey
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Self-citationA SOUTHERN SKY AND GALACTIC PLANE SURVEY FOR BRIGHT KUIPER BELT OBJECTS
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THE LA SILLA–QUEST KUIPER BELT SURVEY
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A SEARCH FOR DISTANT SOLAR SYSTEM BODIES IN THE REGION OF SEDNA
Schwamb, M. E., Brown, M. E., & Rabinowitz, D. L. (2009) · The Astrophysical Journal · doi:10.1088/0004-637x/694/1/l45 · Cited by 27 · see citing works
Self-citationTHE SMALL NUMBERS OF LARGE KUIPER BELT OBJECTS
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- Brown, M. E., Bannister, M. T., Schmidt, B. P., Drake, A. J., Djorgovski, S. G., Graham, M. J., Mahabal, A., Donalek, C., Larson, S., Christensen, E., Beshore, E., & McNaught, R.
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- California Institute of Technology (US)
- Australian National University (AU)
- University of Arizona (US)
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- The Astronomical Journal
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- American Astronomical Society
- Published
- 2015-01-19
- Volume
- 149
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 69
- ISSN
- 0004-6256 (ISSN-L)
- 1538-3881
- OpenAlex
- W2007500008
- Cited by
- 33
- References
- 8
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- 3.34
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Astro and Planetary Science
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Aerospace Engineering › Space Satellite Systems and Control
- Keywords
- outer solar system, trans-Neptunian objects, moving object detection, serendipitous discovery, Catalina Sky Survey, asteroid survey, detection efficiency, galactic latitude
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