Status of the Transneptunian Automated Occultation Survey (TAOS II)

Matthew J. Lehner; Shiang Yu Wang; Mauricio Reyes-Ruíz; Zhi Wei Zhang; Liliana Figueroa; Chung Kai Huang; Wei Ling Yen; Charles Alcock; Fernando Alvarez Santana; Joel Castro-Chacón; Wen Ping Chen; You Hua Chu; Kem H. Cook; John C. Geary; Benjamín Hernández; Jennifer E. Karr; J. J. Kavelaars; Timothy Norton; Andrew Szentgyorgyi

doi:10.1117/12.2309584

Status of the Transneptunian Automated Occultation Survey (TAOS II)

Matthew J. Lehner, Shiang Yu Wang, Mauricio Reyes-Ruíz, Zhi Wei Zhang, Liliana Figueroa, Chung Kai Huang, Wei Ling Yen, Charles Alcock, Fernando Alvarez Santana, Joel Castro-Chacón, Wen Ping Chen, You Hua Chu, Kem H. Cook, John C. Geary, Benjamín Hernández, Jennifer E. Karr, J. J. Kavelaars, Timothy Norton, Andrew Szentgyorgyi

Graduate Institute of Astronomy

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The Transneptunian Automated Occultation Survey (TAOS II) will aim to detect occultations of stars by small (∼1 km diameter) objects in the Kuiper Belt and beyond. Such events are very rare (< 10^-3events per star per year) and short in duration (∼200 ms), so many stars must be monitored at a high readout cadence in order to detect events. TAOS II will operate three 1.3 meter telescopes at the Observatorio Astronomico Nacional at San Pedro Martir in Baja California, Mexico. With a 2.3 square degree field of view and a high speed camera comprising CMOS imagers, the survey will monitor 10,000 stars simultaneously with all three telescopes at a readout cadence of 20 Hz. Construction of the site began in the fall of 2013, and the survey will begin by the end of 2018. This paper describes the observing system and provides an update on the status of the survey infrastructure.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes VII
Editors	Heather K. Marshall, Jason Spyromilio
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510619531
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2309584
State	Published - 2018
Event	Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes VII 2018 - Austin, United States Duration: 10 Jun 2018 → 15 Jun 2018

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	10700
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

Conference

Conference	Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes VII 2018
Country/Territory	United States
City	Austin
Period	10/06/18 → 15/06/18

Keywords

Kuiper Belt Objects
San Pedro Mártir
Solar System
TAOS
Transneptunian Objects
high-speed imaging
occultations
telescope array

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Lehner, M. J., Wang, S. Y., Reyes-Ruíz, M., Zhang, Z. W., Figueroa, L., Huang, C. K., Yen, W. L., Alcock, C., Alvarez Santana, F., Castro-Chacón, J., Chen, W. P., Chu, Y. H., Cook, K. H., Geary, J. C., Hernández, B., Karr, J. E., Kavelaars, J. J., Norton, T., & Szentgyorgyi, A. (2018). Status of the Transneptunian Automated Occultation Survey (TAOS II). In H. K. Marshall, & J. Spyromilio (Eds.), Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes VII Article 107004V (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 10700). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2309584

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Status of the Transneptunian Automated Occultation Survey (TAOS II). / Lehner, Matthew J.; Wang, Shiang Yu; Reyes-Ruíz, Mauricio et al.
Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes VII. ed. / Heather K. Marshall; Jason Spyromilio. SPIE, 2018. 107004V (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 10700).

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