The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT): A Small Robotic Telescope for Large-Area Synoptic Surveys

(2) University of Arizona Department of Astronomy; (3) Winer Observatory); Amelia M. Stutz (2); D. L. DePoy (1); J. L. Marshall (1); Joshua Pepper (1); K. Z. Stanek (1); Mark Trueblood (3); Patricia Trueblood (3) ((1) The Ohio State University Department of Astronomy; Richard W. Pogge (1)

arxiv: 0704.0460 · v2 · submitted 2007-04-03 · 🌌 astro-ph

The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT): A Small Robotic Telescope for Large-Area Synoptic Surveys

Joshua Pepper (1) , Richard W. Pogge (1) , D. L. DePoy (1) , J. L. Marshall (1) , K. Z. Stanek (1) , Amelia M. Stutz (2) , Shawn Poindexter (1) , Robert Siverd (1)

show 5 more authors

Thomas P. O'Brien (1) Mark Trueblood (3) Patricia Trueblood (3) ((1) The Ohio State University Department of Astronomy (2) University of Arizona Department of Astronomy (3) Winer Observatory)

This is my paper

classification 🌌 astro-ph

keywords telescopekeltstarstransitsextremelykilodegreelittleplanetary

0 comments

read the original abstract

The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) project is a survey for planetary transits of bright stars. It consists of a small-aperture, wide-field automated telescope located at Winer Observatory near Sonoita, Arizona. The telescope surveys a set of 26 x 26 degree fields, together covering about 25% of the Northern sky, targeting stars in the range of 8<V<10 mag, searching for transits by close-in Jupiters. This paper describes the system hardware and software and discusses the quality of the observations. We show that KELT is able to achieve the necessary photometric precision to detect planetary transits around solar-type main sequence stars.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet.

The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT): A Small Robotic Telescope for Large-Area Synoptic Surveys

discussion (0)