KELT: The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope

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2004-01-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0401220v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 1 figure, to appear in AIP Conf Proc: The Search for Other Worlds, eds. S. S. Holt & D. Deming

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1774522

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.

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