## Articles

#### Title

Infrared Kuiper belt constraints

#### Abstract

We compute the temperature and IR signal of particles of radius $a$ and albedo $\alpha$ at heliocentric distance $R$, taking into account the emissivity effect, and give an interpolating formula for the result. We compare with analyses of COBE DIRBE data by others (including recent detection of the cosmic IR background) for various values of heliocentric distance, $R$, particle radius, $a$, and particle albedo, $\alpha$. We then apply these results to a recently-developed picture of the Kuiper belt as a two-sector disk with a nearby, low-density sector (40

#### Publication Date

5-1-1999

Also archived at: arXiv:astro-ph/9807207 v3 20 Nov 1998 The work of VLT was supported in part by DOE grant DE-FG03-95ER40908.ISSN:1538-4357 Note: imported from RIT’s Digital Media Library running on DSpace to RIT Scholar Works in February 2014.

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#### Department, Program, or Center

School of Physics and Astronomy (COS)

#### Campus

RIT – Main Campus

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