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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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Caption: Figure 7.

Heliocentric distance versus the completeness of absolute magnitude, H. The shaded region shows where the outer solar system should be complete in discoveries. The effective radius on the right side assumes an albedo of 0.15. The average semi-major axis for the various major Neptune resonance populations is shown as vertical dashed lines for reference.

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