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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 and fall (see the OSSOSurveyDraft).
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 (see side figures). Each set of fields will be observed repeatedly through-out the semester, and then again the following year to obtain a high-precision orbits on all KBOs detected in the field.
Topic Teams
The OSSOS project is divided into topic-teams that are each responsible for ensuring that a particular aspect of the survey science is fully exploited. At the start of the survey each member of the project has been placed into two topic teams, based on their science interests as stated at the start of the survey. By joining a topic team the science team member is committing to helping in this area of science exploitation. Each team selects one of the team members to be the coordinator/lead who will act as an information conduit back to the survey and keep the topic team focussed and organized.
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
