Status of the Transneptunian Automated Occultation Survey (TAOS II)

Matthew J. Lehner; Shiang-Yu Wang; Charles A. Alcock; Kem H. Cook; Gabor Furesz; John C. Geary; David Hiriart; Paul T. Ho; William H. Lee; Frank Melsheimer; Timothy Norton; Mauricio Reyes-Ruiz; Michael Richer; Andrew Szentgyorgyi; Wei-Ling Yen; Zhi-Wei Zhang

doi:10.1117/12.2054853

22 July 2014 Status of the Transneptunian Automated Occultation Survey (TAOS II)

Matthew J. Lehner, Shiang-Yu Wang, Charles A. Alcock, Kem H. Cook, Gabor Furesz, John C. Geary, David Hiriart, Paul T. Ho, William H. Lee, Frank Melsheimer, Timothy Norton, Mauricio Reyes-Ruiz, Michael Richer, Andrew Szentgyorgyi, Wei-Ling Yen, Zhi-Wei Zhang

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Proceedings Volume 9145, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes V; 914513 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2054853
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

The Transneptunian Automated Occultation Survey (TAOS II) will aim to detect occultations of stars by small (~1 km diameter) objects in the Kuiper Belt 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 Astronómico Nacional at San Pedro Mártir in Baja California, México. 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. Construction of the site began in the fall of 2013.

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Matthew J. Lehner, Shiang-Yu Wang, Charles A. Alcock, Kem H. Cook, Gabor Furesz, John C. Geary, David Hiriart, Paul T. Ho, William H. Lee, Frank Melsheimer, Timothy Norton, Mauricio Reyes-Ruiz, Michael Richer, Andrew Szentgyorgyi, Wei-Ling Yen, and Zhi-Wei Zhang "Status of the Transneptunian Automated Occultation Survey (TAOS II)", Proc. SPIE 9145, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes V, 914513 (22 July 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2054853

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