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Home Search Quick Search Advanced Fulltext Browse Collections Persons My eDoc Session History Login Name: Password: Documentation Help Support Wiki Direct access to document ID:	Institute: MPI für Astronomie     Collection: Publikationen_mpia     Display Documents   history ID: 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 R≈14 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] The scope and number of records on eDoc is subject to the collection policies defined by each institute - see "info" button in the collection browse view.