Taiwanese–American Occultation Survey

The Taiwanese–American Occultation Survey (TAOS) is a robotic survey of the

Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) larger than about 500 m in diameter ^[3] and to Sedna

The TAOS telescopes are located in Taiwan, at the Lulin Observatory in Yushan National Park.

TAOS is a joint effort of the

Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, The Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, National Central University, Institute of Astronomy and Yonsei University

, South Korea.

Currently, an expansion to the TAOS project is being planned called TAOS II, with a new meaning to the acronym, the Transneptunian Automated Occultation Survey. The data volume is expected to be over 300 terabytes per year.

References

^ C. Alcock; et al. (2004). "TAOS: The Taiwanese–American Occultation Survey". In John Keith Davies; Luis H. Barrera (eds.). The First Decadal Review of the Edgeworth–Kuiper Belt. Springer. pp. 459–464.
ISBN 978-1-4020-1781-0
.

doi:10.1086/597516

doi:10.1086/592741

External links

Official website

TAOS at National Central University, Institute of Astronomy

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[1] C. Alcock; et al. (2004). "TAOS: The Taiwanese–American Occultation Survey". In John Keith Davies; Luis H. Barrera (eds.). The First Decadal Review of the Edgeworth–Kuiper Belt. Springer. pp. 459–464.
ISBN 978-1-4020-1781-0
.

[2] doi:10.1086/597516

[3] doi:10.1086/592741

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