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3.2 Discussion

Our aim is to compute a more realistic rate of occultations by KBOs (or a more confident threshold of KBO detection) than computed in section 2. Two points were not very realistic in the previous model of diffraction by a KBO: we have assumed (i) a perfectly circular object and (ii) the star is a point source. We thus discuss the following two provisos:

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2000-04-05