
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Webster, RL 
A1  - Brown, Michael JI 
T1  - A Search for Bright Kuiper Belt Objects
JF  - Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
JO  - Publ. Astron. Soc.  Aust.
Y1  - 1998
VL  - 15
IS  - 2
SP  - 176
EP  - 178
KW  - 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/AS98176 
N2  - "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." 
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