An upper limit on the abundance of small trans-Neptunian objects from X-ray occultations

Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2007. === Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-81). === I describe the detection of 201 highly significant dips in the count rate of Sco X-1 from a search of some 500 ks of archival RXTE PCA data, which could be caused by...

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Main Author: Jones, Tucker Anthony
Other Authors: Saul Rappaport and Al Levine.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/40918