A Testbed Search System for Extra-Solar Planet Transits at the University of Wyoming

Details A Testbed Search System for Extra-Solar Planet Transits at the University of Wyoming A Testbed Search System for Extra-Solar Planet Transits at the University of Wyoming

Feb 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001phot.work...79e&link_type=abstract

Third Workshop on Photometry, p. 79

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Photometry, Surveys, Variable Stars, Test Stands, Education, Extrasolar Planets, Low Cost, Field Of View

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We have developed a low-cost testbed system for detecting transits by extra-solar planets. The hardware consists of "off-the-shelf" components that, while presenting numerous of significant problems not encountered with higher-quality equipment, do allow us to develop reduction and data-analysis techniques, discover limitations affecting long-term, high-precision photometric survey projects, and formulate plans for future extra-solar planet searches. Within certain limitations on our usable field of view (FOV), we are able to obtain a set of long-term, high-precision light curves of field stars. This system also serves as a teaching laboratory for undergraduate astronomy majors and could be used as an effective low-budget facility to observe the behavior of bright variable stars.

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