The Transneptunian Automated Occultation Survey (TAOS II)
2012; SPIE; Volume: 8444; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1117/12.925541
ISSN1996-756X
AutoresM. J. Lehner, Shiang‐Yu Wang, Charles Alcock, Kem H. Cook, Gábor Fűrész, John C. Geary, D. Hiriart, Paul T. P. Ho, William Lee, Frank Melsheimer, Timothy Norton, M. Reyes‐Ruiz, M. G. Richer, Andrew Szentgyorgyi, Wei-Ling Yen, Zhiwei Zhang,
Tópico(s)Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
ResumoThe Transneptunian Automated Occultation Survey (TAOS II) will aim to detect occultations of stars by small ( 1 km diameter) objects in the Solar System and beyond. Such events are very rare (< 10 −3 events per star per year) and short in duration ( 200 ms), so many stars must be monitored at a high readout cadence. TAOS II will operate three 1.3 meter telescopes at the Observatorio Astron´omico Nacional at San Pedro Martir in Baja California, Mexico. With a 2.3 square degree field of view and a high speed camera comprising CMOS imagers, the survey will monitor 10,000 stars simultaneously with all three telescopes at a readout cadence of 20 Hz.
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