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(O)uter (S)olar (S)ystem (O)rigins (S)urvey

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Field Layout

We will be surveying two sets of fields, spring

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Spring field layout

and fall. In each season a 7x3 block of fields will be positioned near the ecliptic plane and a second group of fields will be positioned off the plane.

Topic Teams

Core : Detection, orbit linkage

Surfaces : Colours, NIR spectra

Light curves : Time variable TNOs, phase curves

Binaries: mutual orbits, separation, colours

Occultations: Predictions, observing campaigns

Size Distributions : H-mag distributions, dependence on class

Resonant Populations : relative populations, libration amplitude distributions

Scattering : Centaurs, Scattering Disk, Oort cloud connection

Catalog mining : Very distant, non-moving object variation (eg. variable stars)

Getting started


Link to the previous CFEPS survey