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TAOS – The Taiwanese‐American Occultation Survey
Author(s) -
Lehner M. J.,
Alcock C.,
Axelrod T.,
Bianco F.,
Byun Y.I.,
Chen W.P.,
Cook K. H.,
Dave R.,
de Pater I.,
Giammarco J.,
King S.K.,
Lee T.,
Lissauer J.,
Marshall S. L.,
Mondal S.,
Nihei T.,
Rice J.,
Schwamb M.,
Wang A.,
Wang S.Y.,
Wen C.Y.,
Zhang Z.W.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
astronomische nachrichten
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.394
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1521-3994
pISSN - 0004-6337
DOI - 10.1002/asna.200610688
Subject(s) - occultation , stars , astronomy , physics , remote sensing , geology
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 2 000 stars at 5 Hz. The system went into scientific operation in the autumn of 2005. (© 2006 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)