Occultation portal: A web-based platform for data collection and analysis of stellar occultations

Y Kilic, F Braga-Ribas, M Kaplan… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Recording a stellar occultation is one powerful method that gives direct information about
the physical properties of the occulting Solar system object. In order to obtain reliable and …

SORA: Stellar occultation reduction and analysis

AR Gomes-Júnior, BE Morgado… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The stellar occultation technique provides competitive accuracy in determining the sizes,
shapes, astrometry, etc., of the occulting body, comparable to in-situ observations by …

Exploration of the outer solar system by stellar occultations

F Roques, Y Boissel, A Doressoundiram… - Earth, Moon, and …, 2009 - Springer
Stellar occultations are a powerful method for exploring the outer solar system, where
faintness and small angular diameters prevent us from exploring in details objects like …

Stellar occultation studies of the solar system

JL Elliot - 1998 - ntrs.nasa.gov
Earth-based observations of stellar occultations provide extremely high spatial resolution for
bodies in the outer solar system, about 10,000 times better than that of traditional imaging …

Database on detected stellar occultations by small outer Solar System objects

F Braga-Ribas, A Crispim… - Journal of Physics …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Observation of stellar occultation by objects of the Solar System is a powerful technique that
allows measurements of size and shape of the small bodies with accuracies in the order of …

Detectability of occultations of stars by objects in the Kuiper belt and Oort cloud

TC Nihei, MJ Lehner, FB Bianco, SK King… - The Astronomical …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
The serendipitous detection of stellar occultations by outer solar system objects is a powerful
method for ascertaining the small end (r≲ 15 km) of the size distribution of Kuiper Belt …

A digital video system for observing and recording occultations

MAT Barry, D Gault, H Pavlov, W Hanna… - Publications of the …, 2015 - cambridge.org
Stellar occultations by asteroids and outer solar system bodies can offer ground based
observers with modest telescopes and camera equipment the opportunity to probe the …

The TAOS II survey: real-time detection and characterization of occultation events

CK Huang, MJ Lehner, APG Contreras… - Publications of the …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Transneptunian Automated Occultation Survey (TAOS II) is a blind occultation
survey with the aim of measuring the size distribution of Trans-Neptunian Objects with …

Limovie, a new light measurement tool for occultation observations using video recorded

K Miyashita, T Hayamizu… - Report of the National …, 2006 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
We developed a new software program called Limovie to produce light curve plots of
occultation events. Limovie converts a video to a light curve for a qualitative analysis of …

The research and education collaborative occultation network: a system for coordinated TNO occultation observations

MW Buie, JM Keller - The Astronomical Journal, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe a new system and method for collecting coordinated occultation observations
of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). Occultations by objects in the outer solar system are …