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A Southern Sky and Galactic Plane Survey for Bright Kuiper Belt Objects

Authors: Scott S. Sheppard, Andrzej Udalski, Chadwick Trujillo, Marcin Kubiak, Grzegorz Pietrzynski, Radoslaw Poleski, Igor Soszynski, Michal K. Szymański, and Krzysztof Ulaczyk

Sheppard et al. 2011 The Astronomical Journal 142 98.

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Detection efficiency of the KBO survey vs. the apparent red magnitude using the Warsaw 1.3 m telescope. In good seeing (0.8 arcsec FWHM) the 50% detection efficiency is at about 21.6 mag, while in moderate seeing (~1 arcsec) it is about 21.2 mag in the R band. Effective radii of the apparent magnitudes were calculated assuming the object has an albedo of 0.15 and is at 40 AU.

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