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Caption: Figure 12.
Cumulative completeness of the diameter, C(D >), at the end of 2022 as a result of the KOM computed for 10 random realizations of the NEA reference model with the minimum size set to 40 m. The average cumulative completeness is shown as the solid line, showing that the KOM estimates an average completeness of 88% for NEAs larger than 1 km and 38% for NEAs larger than 140 m. The discrepancy between our completeness estimate at 1 km and the estimates of 90+% completeness from Mainzer et al. (2011a) and Granvik et al. (2018) are due to the fact that the KOM does not include specialty surveys (such as the low solar elongation surveys, NEOWISE, etc.). NEOWISE has, for example, contributed at least 55 NEA discoveries with diameters larger than 1 km, which would account for ∼6% of completeness for this size range.
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