Michele Bannister (UVIC)

Mapping the Deep: First Discoveries from the Outer Solar System Origins Survey

	
The exploration of the outer Solar System has reached an exciting
point: we are now beginning to understand its dynamical structure,
sculpted into existence by giant planet migration in the early history
of the Solar System. We have designed a survey using 560 hours of CFHT
time over four years to provide hundreds of new trans-Neptunian
objects with exquisitely characterized, high-precision orbits. This
new fully characterized wide-field survey began observations with CFHT
MegaPrime in February 2013, and by its conclusion in 2016 aims to have
doubled the number of trans-Neptunian objects suitable for testing
models of Solar System history.