Census of Kuiper Comets : The
Taiwan-America
Occultation
Survey
[Chinese version]
News and Announcement
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TAOS Optical transients in 2007
(a 3.9 MB ppt poster):
(26 June, 2008)
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Two GRB afterglows, a flare star, an exoplanet test,
and yet another asteroid event (973) Aralia
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A Binary System was Resolved in the Occultation by (87) Sylvia
(18 December, 2006)
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Three TAOS telescopes detected a predicted occultation by (286) Iclea
(6 February, 2006)
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TAOS detected a predicted occultation by (1723) Klemola while running in synchronous mode with two telescopes
(5 June, 2004)
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TAOS detected occultation by an asteroid
(23 February, 2004)
The Project
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Why this project?
The Idea of TAOS
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Who is involved?
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The TAOS Collaboration:
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Academia Sinica, Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
The Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
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National Central University, Institute of Astronomy
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Yonsei University, South Korea
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People
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What insturment is used?
TAOS Telescopes and CCD Cameras
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Where are our telescopes?
Telescope Enclosures
and
TAOS sites
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Which field are we looking at?
The TAOS Target Fields
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How do we look at those target stars?
Shutterless Zipper Mode (with animation)
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Our current results:
Publications & Preprints
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Image gallery
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Internal documents (restricted)
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(obsolete)
TAOS Joint Seminars/Meetings (ASIAA & NCU)
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(obsolete)
TAOS-variable star workshop
(25~27 Feb., 1999)
Hot Links
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TAOS at National Central University, Institute of Astronomy
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Kuiper Belt, University of Hawaii
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List of Transneptunian Objects,
Centaurs and Scattered-Disk Objects
in IAU/MPC
(Minor Planet Center)
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Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment
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Central Weather Bureau, Taiwan
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The Kuiper Belt Electronic Newsletter
Please send your comments or suggestions to
Chih-Yi Wen
