HAT Variability Search in the High Stellar Density "Kepler Field" with Millimagnitude Image Subtraction Photometry

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The Hungarian-made Automated Telescope network (HATnet) is an ongoing project to detect transiting extra-solar planets using small aperture, robotic telescopes. In this poster we present the results from using image subtraction photometry to reduce a crowded stellar field (chosen to coincide with the planned field of the Kepler mission). We obtained I-band lightcurves for 98,000 objects in a 67-square-degree Field of View centered at (295.92, 37.54), along the galactic plane in the constellations Lyra and Cygnus. These observations include 800 5-minute exposures spanning a 30 day period. For the brightest stars (I 8.0) we achieved a precision of 3 millimagnitudes, falling to 0.04 magnitudes at the faint end (I 14.5). From these lightcurves we identify several hundred variable stars, and we discuss some of the most interesting cases.

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