New Transiting Planet Surveys in the High Canadian Arctic

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Jan 2012

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2012aas...21912504l&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #219, #125.04

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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We describe a transiting planet and stellar variability survey to be performed in the high Canadian Arctic. The new observatory, which will be located at the Ellesmere Island PEARL Station at 80 degrees latitude, offers 24-hour darkness, excellent observing conditions, and long clear-sky periods. Compared to mid-latitude sites these advantages give greatly improved transit detection efficiency for longer-period, potentially habitable planets around cool stars. The survey has two components: a 20-inch robotic 1-square-degree imaging telescope, and two 200-square-degree 85mm telescopes pointed at Polaris. The telescopes and observatory infrastructure are currently under construction and the survey is planned to begin in 2012.

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