The Structure of the Kuiper Belt: Size Distribution and Radial Extent

By B. Gladman, J. Kavelaars, Jean-Marc Petit, A. Morbidelli, M. Holman, T. Loredo. 2001

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The Size Distribution of Kuiper Belt Objects (2004, background): “…the first Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) in 1930 (Pluto; Tombaugh 1946) and 1992 (1992 QB1; Jewitt & Luu 1993), several groups began large-scale surveys to characterize the limits of the Kuiper belt (e.g., Luu et al. 1997; Allen et al. 2001; Gladman et al. 2001; Larsen et al. 2001; references therein).”
The Deep Ecliptic Survey: A Search for Kuiper Belt Objects and Centaurs. II. Dynamical Classification, the Kuiper Belt Plane, and the Core Population (2005, background): “Very recently, Gladman et al. (2001) have shown that this object has a perihelion distance no less than 44 AU.”
FORMATION OF KUIPER BELT BINARIES BY GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE (2010, background): “…they are now (e ∼ i ∼ 10−4–10−2 compared to present eccentricities e ∼ 0.1 and inclinations i ∼ 10◦), and (ii) the initial disk mass was ∼100–1000 times larger than the current KB mass, MKB ∼ 0.01-0.1 MEarth (Trujillo et al. 2001a,b, Gladman et al. 2001b, Bernstein et al. 2004, Fraser et al. 2008).”
Debris disks as signposts of terrestrial planet formation (2011, background): “These systems contain at least a few M⊕ (and often more than 20 M⊕) in surviving cometary material, 1−2 orders of magnitude more than the current Kuiper Belt (Gladman et al. 2001).”
LSST: From Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products (2008, background): “…function of color and size; the search for dynamical families (Marcus et al. 2011); studies of shapes and structure using light curves (Duncan & Levison 1995; Trujillo, Jewitt & Luu 2001; Gladman et al. 2001; Bernstein et al. 2004; Elliot et al. 2005; Jones et al. 2006; Doressoundiram et al. 2007).”
THE ABSOLUTE MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION OF KUIPER BELT OBJECTS (2014, background): “That is, the number of objects brighter than some magnitude, m per square degree on the ecliptic is given by Σ(m) = 10α(m−mo) with the slope α ∼ 0.75 and normalization constant given by mo ∼ 23.4 in r ′ (Gladman et al. 2001; Fraser et al. 2008).”
THE CANADA–FRANCE ECLIPTIC PLANE SURVEY—L3 DATA RELEASE: THE ORBITAL STRUCTURE OF THE KUIPER BELT (2009, background): “…many different Kuiper Belt surveys (those with more than 10 detections include Jewitt et al. (1996); Larsen19 et al. (2001); Trujillo et al. (2001); Gladman et al. (2001); Allen et al. (2002); Millis et al. (2002); Elliot20 et al. (2005); Petit et al. (2006); Jones et al. (2006); Schwamb et al.…”
Planetary migration in a planetesimal disk: why did Neptune stop at 30 AU? (2004, background): “The current mass of the region, inferred from observations(Jewitt et al., 1996; Chiang and Brown, 199 Trujillo et al., 2001; Gladman et al., 2001), is now less than 0.1M⊕.”
Origin of the structure of the Kuiper belt during a dynamical instability in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune (2007, methodology): “This is determined by following the procedures outlined in Gladman et al. (2007), where each object is classified by a process of elimination using an integration of a 10 Myr.”
The Size Distribution of Trans-Neptunian Bodies (2003, background): “Gladman et al. (2001) estimate the mass of TNOs in the 30–50 AU range to be 0.04–0.1 M⊕ (for unspecified material density), if the size distribution turns over to the Dohnanyi slope for D ∼ 40 km.”
Ceres’ evolution and present state constrained by shape data (2010, background): “…of the Nice model (e.g., Gomes et al., 2005), Ceres would have formed in the transneptunian region, with a temperature lower than 50 K, and on a timescale of several tens to hundreds My, as is considered to be the case for large icy objects in the outer Solar system (e.g., Gladman et al., 2001).”
Kuiper Belt Objects: Relics from the Accretion Disk of the Sun (2002, background): “…(1961), Luu& Jewitt (1988, 1998), Kowal (1989), Levison & Duncan (1990), Irwin et al. (1995), Jewitt et al. (1996, 1998), Gladman et al. (1998), Trujillo & Jewitt (1998), Chiang & Brown (1999), Sheppard et al. (2000), Larsen et al. (2001), Gladman et al. (2001), and Trujillo et al. (2001a).”
Impacts and the Early Evolution of Life (2006, background): “Weissman (1990) suggests that q ≈ 2.2 for long period comets bigger than 10 km. The Kuiper Belt, the probable source of the short period comets, seems to be telling the same story: Kuiper Belt Objects bigger than 50 km across apparently obey a q ≈ 2.1 power law distribution ( Gladman et al., 2001; ”
Investigation of the Physical Properties of Protoplanetary Disks around T Tauri Stars by a 1 Arcsecond Imaging Survey: Evolution and Diversity of the Disks in Their Accretion Stage (2002, result): “Note, however, that recent observations (e.g., Chiang & Brown 1999; Gladman et al. 2001) suggest significant depletion of the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt objects beyond 50 AU, which might suggest disk truncation due to a stellar encounter (McCaughrean & O’Dell 1996; Ida, Larwood, & Burkert 2000;…”