Appetitive locomotion is essential for animals to approach rewards, such as food and prey.
The neuronal circuitry controlling appetitive locomotion is unclear. In a goal-directed …

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 …

We present variability measurements and partial light curves of trans-Neptunian objects
(TNOs) from a two-night pilot study using Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) on the Subaru …

Kuiper belt objects smaller than a few kilometres are difficult to observe directly. They can be
detected when they randomly occult a background star. Close to the ecliptic plane, each star …

We present a new pipeline based on the Support Vector Machine algorithm to confirm the
detection and perform classification of small solar system objects by serendipitous stellar …

The observation of stellar occultations constitutes one of the most important techniques for
determining the dimensions and establishing the physical parameters of small Solar System …

In this paper we study the effects of systematic noise and atmospheric turbulence on image
quality and signal-to-noise ratio for high cadence (∼ 20 fps) observations, in the context of …

In this thesis I describe work on fast imaging astronomy, a new and evolving sub-topic of
time-domain astronomy that has been growing in recent years thanks to advances in …