MINERVA-Australis. I. Design, Commissioning, and First Photometric Results

被引：93

作者：

Addison, Brett ^{[1
]}

Wright, Duncan J. ^{[1
]}

Wittenmyer, Robert A. ^{[1
]}

Horner, Jonathan ^{[1
]}

Mengel, Matthew W. ^{[1
]}

Johns, Daniel ^{[2
]}

Marti, Connor ^{[3
]}

Nicholson, Belinda ^{[1
]}

Soutter, Jack ^{[1
]}

Bowler, Brendan ^{[4
]}

Crossfield, Ian ^{[5
]}

Kane, Stephen R. ^{[6
]}

Kielkopf, John ^{[7
]}

Plavchan, Peter ^{[8
]}

Tinney, C. G. ^{[9
]}

Zhang, Hui ^{[10
]}

Clark, Jake T. ^{[1
]}

Clerte, Mathieu ^{[1
]}

Eastman, Jason D. ^{[11
]}

Swift, Jon ^{[12
]}

Bottom, Michael ^{[13
]}

Muirhead, Philip ^{[14
]}

McCrady, Nate ^{[15
]}

Herzig, Erich ^{[16
]}

Hogstrom, Kristina ^{[16
]}

Wilson, Maurice ^{[17
]}

Sliski, David ^{[18
,21
]}

Johnson, Samson A. ^{[19
]}

Wright, Jason T. ^{[20
]}

Johnson, John Asher ^{[17
]}

Blake, Cullen ^{[21
]}

Riddle, Reed ^{[16
]}

Lin, Brian ^{[16
]}

Cornachione, Matthew ^{[22
]}

Bedding, Timothy R. ^{[23
,24
]}

Stello, Dennis ^{[25
]}

Huber, Daniel ^{[26
]}

Marsden, Stephen ^{[1
]}

Carter, Bradley D. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Southern Queensland, Ctr Astrophys, West St, Toowoomba, Qld 4350, Australia

[2] Kutztown State Univ, Dept Phys Sci, Kutztown, PA 19530 USA

[3] Williams Coll, Dept Astron, 33 Lab Campus Dr, Williamstown, MA 01267 USA

[4] Univ Texas Austin, Dept Astron, Austin, TX 78712 USA

[5] MIT, Dept Phys, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

[6] Univ Calif Riverside, Dept Earth Sci, Riverside, CA 92521 USA

[7] Univ Louisville, Dept Phys & Astron, Louisville, KY 40292 USA

[8] George Mason Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, 4400 Univ Dr MS 3F3, Fairfax, VA 22030 USA

[9] UNSW Sydney, Sch Phys, Exoplanetary Sci UNSW, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia

[10] Nanjing Univ, Sch Astron & Space Sci, Key Lab Modern Astron & Astrophys, Minist Educ, Nanjing 210046, Jiangsu, Peoples R China

[11] Harvard & Smithsonian, Ctr Astrophys, 60 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

[12] Thacher Sch, 5025 Thacher Rd, Ojai, CA 93023 USA

[13] CALTECH, MC 249-17,1200 E Calif Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA

[14] Boston Univ, Inst Astrophys Res, Dept Astron, 725 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215 USA

[15] Univ Montana, Dept Phys & Astron, 32 Campus Dr 1080, Missoula, MT 59812 USA

[16] CALTECH, 1200 E Calif Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA

[17] Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

[18] Univ Penn, Dept Phys & Astron, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA

[19] Ohio State Univ, Dept Astron, 140 West 18th Ave, Columbus, OH 43210 USA

[20] Penn State Univ, Dept Astron & Astrophys, 525 Davey Lab, University Pk, PA 16802 USA

[21] Univ Penn, Dept Phys & Astron, 209 South 33rd St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA

[22] US Naval Acad, Dept Phys, 572C Holloway Rd, Annapolis, MD 21402 USA

[23] Univ Sydney, Sch Phys, Sydney Inst Astron SIfA, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

[24] Aarhus Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Stellar Astrophys Ctr, Ny Munkegade 120, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark

[25] Univ New South Wales, Sch Phys, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia

[26] Univ Hawaii, Inst Astron, 2680 Woodlawn Dr, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA

来源：

PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC | 2019年 / 131卷 / 1005期

基金：

澳大利亚研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会; 美国国家航空航天局;

关键词：

instrumentation: spectrographs; instrumentation: photometers; techniques: photometric; techniques: radial velocities; techniques: spectroscopic; planets and satellites: detection; (stars:) planetary systems; TRANSITING HOT JUPITERS; BRIGHT K-STAR; EXTRASOLAR PLANETS; SUPER-EARTH; EXOPLANETS; PARAMETERS; COMPANION; SYSTEM; ALBEDO; RING;

D O I：

10.1088/1538-3873/ab03aa

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

The MINERVA-Australis telescope array is a facility dedicated to the follow-up, confirmation, characterization, and mass measurement of planets orbiting bright stars discovered by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) -a category in which it is almost unique in the Southern Hemisphere. It is located at the University of Southern Queensland's Mount Kent Observatory near Toowoomba, Australia. Its flexible design enables multiple 0.7 m robotic telescopes to be used both in combination, and independently, for high-resolution spectroscopy and precision photometry of TESS transit planet candidates. MINERVA-Australis also enables complementary studies of exoplanet spin-orbit alignments via Doppler observations of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect, radial velocity searches for nontransiting planets, planet searches using transit timing variations, and ephemeris refinement for TESS planets. In this first paper, we describe the design, photometric instrumentation, software, and science goals of MINERVA-Australis, and note key differences from its Northern Hemisphere counterpart, the MINERVA array. We use recent transit observations of four planets, WASP-2b, WASP-44b, WASP-45b, and HD 189733b, to demonstrate the photometric capabilities of MINERVA-Australis.

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