The KELT-South Telescope

被引：129

作者：

Pepper, Joshua ^{[1
]}

Kuhn, Rudolf B. ^{[2
,3
]}

Siverd, Robert ^{[1
]}

James, David ^{[4
]}

Stassun, Keivan ^{[1
,5
]}

机构：

[1] Vanderbilt Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Stevenson Ctr 6301, Nashville, TN 37235 USA

[2] S African Astron Observ, ZA-7935 Cape Town, South Africa

[3] Univ Cape Town, Dept Astron, Astrophys Cosmol & Grav Ctr, ZA-7700 Rondebosch, South Africa

[4] Cerro Tololo Interamer Observ, La Serena, Chile

[5] Fisk Univ, Dept Phys, Nashville, TN 37208 USA

来源：

PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC | 2012年 / 124卷 / 913期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

IMAGE SUBTRACTION; NOISE; PROJECT;

D O I：

10.1086/665044

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) project is a survey for new transiting planets around bright stars. KELT-South is a small-aperture, wide-field automated telescope located at Sutherland, South Africa. The telescope surveys a set of 26 degrees x 26 degrees fields around the southern sky and targets stars in the range of 8 < V < 10 mag, searching for transits by hot Jupiters. This article describes the KELT-South system hardware and software and discusses the quality of the observations. We show that KELT-South is able to achieve the necessary photometric precision to detect transits of hot Jupiters around solar-type main-sequence stars.

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页码：230 / 241

页数：12

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