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Euclid Asteroseismology and Kuiper Belt Objects

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2017-01-18 v1 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

Abstract

Euclid, which is primarily a dark-energy/cosmology mission, may have a microlensing component, consisting of perhaps four dedicated one-month campaigns aimed at the Galactic bulge. We show that such a program would yield excellent auxilliary science, including asteroseimology detections for about 100,000 giant stars, and detection of about 1000 Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs), down to 2--2.5 mag below the observed break in the KBO luminosity function at I ~26. For the 400 KBOs below the break, Euclid will measure accurate orbits, with fractional period errors <~ 2.5%.

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@article{arxiv.1504.01384,
  title  = {Euclid Asteroseismology and Kuiper Belt Objects},
  author = {A. Gould and D. Huber and D. Stello},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.01384},
  year   = {2017}
}

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8 pages, 4 figures, submitted to JKAS

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