KELT: The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope
Astrophysics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
Transits of bright stars offer a unique opportunity to study detailed properties of extrasolar planets that cannot be determined through radial-velocity observations. We propose a technique to find such systems using all-sky small-aperture transit surveys. The optimal telescope design for finding transits of bright stars is a 5 cm ``telescope'' with a 4k x 4k camera. We are currently building such a system and expect to detect ~10 bright star transits after one year of operation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0401220,
title = {KELT: The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope},
author = {Joshua Pepper and Andrew Gould and D. L. DePoy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0401220},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
6 pages, 1 figure, to appear in AIP Conf Proc: The Search for Other Worlds, eds. S. S. Holt & D. Deming