Abstract
We present a new, pencil-beam survey of the Kuiper Belt taken with the Keck 10 m telescope. The cumulative surface density of Kuiper Belt Objects measured to apparent red magnitude mR=26.1 is 31+ 12−14 deg-2, while to mR=26.6 it is 40±33 deg-2. These numbers are compatible with an extrapolation of the luminosity function deduced earlier from measurements in the 20≤mR≤25 range, and they confirm a Kuiper Belt differential size distribution index q~4.
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