The WHAT Project
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We describe WHAT, a small-aperture short focal length automated telescope with an 8.2 deg X 8.2 deg field of view, located at the Wise Observatory. The system is aimed at searching for transiting extrasolar planets and variable stars. Preliminary results of 3892 exposures of a single field are presented, where the telescope achieved already a precision of a few mmag for the brightest objects. Additional information can be found at http://wise-obs.tau.ac.il/~what .
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0510766,
title = {The WHAT Project},
author = {A. Shporer and T. Mazeh and A. Moran and G. Bakos and G. Kovacs and E. Mashal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0510766},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
3 pages, 3 figures; to appear in the proceedings of Haute Provence Observatory Colloquium (22-25 August 2005) "Tenth anniversary of 51 Peg-b: Status of and prospects for hot Jupiter studies", ed. L. Arnold, F. Bouchy, & C. Moutou