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千度极小望远镜(KELT):用于大面积天气调查的小型机器人望远镜

The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT): A Small Robotic Telescope for Large-Area Synoptic Surveys

Joshua Pepper, Richard W. Pogge, D. L. DePoy, J. L. Marshall, K. Z. Stanek, Amelia M. Stutz, Shawn Poindexter, Robert Siverd, Thomas P. O'Brien, Mark Trueblood, Patricia Trueblood

摘要:

Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope(KELT)是一个观测明亮恒星的行星凌日的项目。它由一个小口径、宽视场自动望远镜组成,位于亚利桑那州Sonoita附近的Winer天文台。该望远镜观测一组26 x 26度的视场,共覆盖北半球天空的25%,目标是8<V<10等的恒星,通过近距离的望远镜寻找凌日。本文介绍了系统的硬件和软件,并讨论了观测质量。我们表明,KELT是能够实现必要的光度精度,以检测行星凌日围绕太阳型主序星。

英文摘要:

The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) project is a survey for planetary transits of bright stars. It consists of a small-aperture, wide-field automated telescope located at Winer Observatory near Sonoita, Arizona. The telescope surveys a set of 26 x 26 degree fields, together covering about 25% of the Northern sky, targeting stars in the range of 8<V<10 mag, searching for transits by close-in Jupiters. This paper describes the system hardware and software and discusses the quality of the observations. We show that KELT is able to achieve the necessary photometric precision to detect planetary transits around solar-type main sequence stars.

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