@article{008210852bfe495d8d3b863473b4be25,
title = "Occultations by small non-spherical trans-neptunian objects. I. A new event simulator for TAOS II",
abstract = "We present a new occultation event simulator for the Trans-Neptunian Automated Occultation Survey (TAOS II). We have developed a method to compute occultation shadows by small objects with non-circular apparent shapes (as may result from an intrinsic morphology or from the projection of a contact binary). The new simulator calculates diffraction features in the occultation shadows, as well as resulting light curves as would be measured by the TAOS?II survey system. We include effects such as the spectral type and finite angular size of the occulted star. We find that occultation events, especially by Trans-Neptunian Objects with diameters ~3 km may be misidentified or mischaracterized when not taking non-spherical shapes into account.",
keywords = "Kuiper belt: general, Occultations, Surveys",
author = "{The TAOS II Collaboration} and Castro-Chac{\'o}n, {J. H.} and M. Reyes-Ruiz and Lehner, {M. J.} and Zhang, {Z. W.} and C. Alcock and Guerrero, {C. A.} and B. Hern{\'a}ndez-Valencia and Hern{\'a}ndez-{\'A}guila, {J. B.} and Nu{\~n}ez, {J. M.} and J. Salinas-Luna and Silva, {J. S.} and M. Alexandersen and Alvarez-Santana, {F. I.} and Chen, {W. P.} and Chu, {Y. H.} and Cook, {K. H.} and Garc{\'i}a-D{\'i}az, {Ma T.} and Geary, {J. C.} and Huang, {C. K.} and J. Kavelaars and T. Norton and A. Szentgyorgyi and Carvajal, {J. C.} and E. S{\'a}nchez and Yen, {W. L.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019. The Astronomical Society of the Pacific. All rights reserved.",
year = "2019",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1088/1538-3873/ab152e",
language = "???core.languages.en_GB???",
volume = "131",
journal = "Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific",
issn = "0004-6280",
number = "1000",
}