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KELT-South望远镜

The KELT-South Telescope

Joshua Pepper, Rudolf B. Kuhn, Robert Siverd, David James, Keivan Stassun

摘要:

Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope(KELT)计划是一项对明亮恒星周围新的凌日行星的调查。KELT-South是位于南非萨瑟兰的一个小口径、宽视场自动望远镜。该望远镜在南部天空周围观测一组26度乘26度的视场,目标是8 < V < 10等的恒星,寻找热彗星的凌日。本文介绍了KELT-South系统的硬件和软件,并讨论了观测质量。我们表明,KELT-South能够达到必要的光度精度,以检测太阳型主序星周围的热彗星凌日。

英文摘要:

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 degree by 26 degree fields around the southern sky, and targets stars in the range of 8 < V < 10 mag, searching for transits by Hot Jupiters. This paper 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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