
%0 Journal Article
%A Webster, RL 
%A Brown, Michael JI 
%T A Search for Bright Kuiper Belt Objects
%J Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
%D 1998/07/01
%V 15
%N 2
%P 176-178
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/AS98176
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/AS98176 
%X "Since 1992, 60 large Kuiper Belt objects have been detected by ground-based telescopes. Previous surveys which have detected objects have searched approximately 60 square degrees and detected objects with magnitudes 20.6 < m_R < 25.0. However, the luminosity function of brighter Kuiper Belt objects is not well determined. The detection of brighter objects would improve our ability to determine the Kuiper Belt objects&apos; surface composition and provide constraints on the population statistics of different formation mechanisms. This paper describes a survey of 12.0 square degrees of sky near the ecliptic to a limiting magnitude of m_R ~ 21. A slow moving candidate was detected near the magnitude limit of the survey." 
