J.-H. Wang et al. 2009 The Astronomical Journal 138 1893 doi:10.1088/0004-6256/138/6/1893
J.-H. Wang1,2, M. J. Lehner1,3,4, Z.-W. Zhang2, F. B. Bianco3,4, C. Alcock4, W.-P. Chen2, T. Axelrod5, Y.-I. Byun6, N. K. Coehlo7, K. H. Cook8, R. Dave4, I. de Pater9, R. Porrata9, D.-W. Kim6, S.-K. King1, T. Lee1, H.-C. Lin2, J. J. Lissauer10, S. L. Marshall8,11, P. Protopapas4, J. A. Rice7, M. E. Schwamb12, S.-Y. Wang1 and C.-Y. Wen1
Show affiliationsWe present the results of a search for occultation events by objects at distances between 100 and 1000 AU in light curves from the Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey. We searched for consecutive, shallow flux reductions in the stellar light curves obtained by our survey between 2005 February 7 and 2006 December 31 with a total of ~4.5 × 109 three-telescope simultaneous photometric measurements. No events were detected, allowing us to set upper limits on the number density as a function of size and distance of objects in Sedna-like orbits, using simple models.
Issue 6 (2009 December)
Received 2009 February 28, accepted for publication 2009 October 4
Published 2009 November 5
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