The 'Berlin Exoplanet Search Telescope'

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Apr 2003

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EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly, Abstracts from the meeting held in Nice, France, 6 - 11 April 2003, abstract #3420

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The 'Berlin Exoplanet Search Telescope' (BEST) is a groundbased system designed to search for transits of Jupiter-sized exoplanets across the disk of their central star. The system consists of a 20cm flat-field telescope and is equipped with a CCD camera with 2048x2048 pixels. The field-of-view of the telescope is about 3.1x3.1 degrees, allowing for a large number of stars (>30000) to be observed simultaneously in a typical field near the galactic plane. The system operates since 1.5 years at the Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, Germany. Three target fields have been regularely observed. Two observations of the transiting exoplanet HD209458 demonstrate the ability of the instrument to detect transits of Jupiter-sized planets around Sun-like stars.

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