The CFEPS Kuiper Belt Survey: Strategy and presurvey results

Autor: Hans Jochen Scholl, Jj Kavelaars, M. Holman, P. Rousselot, O. Mousis, T. Grav, Paula Gabriela Benavídez, P. D. Nicholson, Brett Gladman, J. Wm. Parker, Jean-Marc Petit, R. L. Jones, A. Campo Bagatin, C. Veillet, G. Mars, Alain Doressoundiram, Guillermo Bernabeu
Přispěvatelé: Laboratoire de Cosmologie, Astrophysique Stellaire & Solaire, de Planétologie et de Mécanique des Fluides (CASSIOPEE), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Univers, Transport, Interfaces, Nanostructures, Atmosphère et environnement, Molécules (UMR 6213) (UTINAM), Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, National Research Council of Canada (NRC), Universidad de Alicante, Departamento de Fisica, Ingenieria de Sistemas y Teoria de la Señal [Alicante] (DFESTS), SwRI Planetary Science Directorate [Boulder], Southwest Research Institute [Boulder] (SwRI), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of British Columbia (UBC), Laboratoire d'astrophysique de l'observatoire de Besançon (UMR 6091) (LAOB), Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corporation (CFHT), National Research Council of Canada (NRC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-University of Hawai'i [Honolulu] (UH)
Rok vydání: 2006
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Zdroj: Icarus
Icarus, Elsevier, 2006, 185, pp.508-522. ⟨10.1016/j.icarus.2006.07.024⟩
Icarus, Elsevier, 2006, 185 (2), pp.508-522. ⟨10.1016/j.icarus.2006.07.024⟩
Icarus, 2006, 185 (2), pp.508-522. ⟨10.1016/j.icarus.2006.07.024⟩
Icarus, 2006, 185, pp.508-522. ⟨10.1016/j.icarus.2006.07.024⟩
ISSN: 0019-1035
1090-2643
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.07.024
Popis: We present the data acquisition strategy and characterization procedures for the Canada-France Ecliptic Plane Survey (CFEPS), a sub-component of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey. The survey began in early 2003 and as of summer 2005 has covered 430 square degrees of sky within a few degrees of the ecliptic. Moving objects beyond the orbit of Uranus are detected to a magnitude limit of $m_R$=23 -- 24 (depending on the image quality). To track as large a sample as possible and avoid introducing followup bias, we have developed a multi-epoch observing strategy that is spread over several years. We present the evolution of the uncertainties in ephemeris position and orbital elements as the objects progress through the epochs. We then present a small 10-object sample that was tracked in this manner as part of a preliminary survey starting a year before the main CFEPS project. We describe the CFEPS survey simulator, to be released in 2006, which allows theoretical models of the Kuiper Belt to be compared with the survey discoveries since CFEPS has a well-documented pointing history with characterized detection efficiencies as a function of magnitude and rate of motion on the sky. Using the pre-survey objects we illustrate the usage of the simulator in modeling the classical Kuiper Belt.
Comment: to be submitted to Icarus
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