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447965.0,
MPI für Astronomie / Publikationen_mpia |
HAT-South: a global network of Southern hemisphere automated telescopes to detect transiting exoplanets |
Authors: | Bakos, G.; Afonso, C.; Henning, T.; Jordán, A.; Holman, M.; Noyes, R. W.; Sackett, P. D.; Sasselov, D.; Kovács, Gábor; Csubry, Z.; Pál, A. | Language: | English | Publisher: | Cambridge Univ. Press | Place of Publication: | Cambridge | Date of Publication (YYYY-MM-DD): | 2009 | Title of Proceedings: | Transiting Planets | Start Page: | 354 | End Page: | 357 | Title of Series: | IAU Symp. | Volume (in Series): | 253 | Name of Conference/Meeting: | IAU Symposium | Review Status: | not specified | Audience: | Experts Only | Abstract / Description: | HAT-South is a network of six identical, fully automated wide field telescopes, to be located at three sites (Chile: Las Campanas, Australia: Siding Springs, and Namibia: HESS site) in the Southern hemisphere. The primary purpose of the network is to detect and characterize a large number of extra-solar planets transiting nearby bright stars, and to explore their diversity. Operation of HAT-South is a collaboration among the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) and the Australian National University (ANU). The network is expected to be ready for initial science operations in 2009. The three sites will permit near round-the-clock monitoring of selected fields, and the continuous data-stream will greatly enhance recovery of transits. HAT-South will be sensitive to planetary transits down to Rââ°Ë14 across a 128 square-degrees combined field of view, thereby targeting a large number of dwarfs with feasible confirmation-mode follow-up. We anticipate a yearly detection rate of approximately 25 planets transiting bright stars. | Comment of the Author/Creator: | Date: 2009, February 1, 2009 | External Publication Status: | published | Document Type: | Conference-Paper |
Communicated by: | N. N. | Affiliations: | MPI für Astronomie
| Identifiers: | URL:http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009IAUS..253..354B [ID No:1] | |
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