The future of stellar occultations by distant solar system bodies: Perspectives from the Gaia astrometry and the deep sky surveys
2018
Abstract Distant objects in the
solar systemare crucial to better understand the history and evolution of its outskirts. The stellar
occultationtechnique allows the determination of their sizes and shapes with kilometric accuracy, a detailed investigation of their immediate vicinities, as well as the detection of tenuous atmospheres. The prediction of such events is a key point in this study, and yet accurate enough predictions are available to a handful of objects only. In this work, we briefly discuss the dramatic impact that both the
astrometryfrom the Gaia space mission and the deep sky surveys – the
Large Synoptic Survey Telescopein particular – will have on the prediction of stellar
occultationsand how they may influence the future of the study of distant small
solar systembodies through this technique.
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