Work

The KELT-South Telescope1

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: 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° × 26° 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.

Source: Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

DOI: 10.1086/665044

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

Institutions: Vanderbilt University, South African Astronomical Observatory, Fisk University, University of Cape Town, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory

Language: English

Topic: Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies

Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: National Science Foundation, Vanderbilt University

Award: Graduate Opportunities at Fisk in Astronomy and Astrophysics Research (GO-FAAR)