Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Sep 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011ess.....2.2101d&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, ESS meeting #2, #21.01
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
Leading the agenda for pushing the planet sensitivity limit towards the mass of the Moon, we will report first results from our 2011 MiNDSTEp (Microlensing Network for the Detection of Small Terrestrial Exoplanets) lucky-imaging microlensing follow-up campaign with the Danish 1.54m at ESO La Silla. It serves as a precursor to observations with a global network comprising the LCOGT/SUPAscope, SONG, and MONET 1m-class robotic telescope networks gradually deployed from 2011 to 2014. As for observations from space, the lucky-imaging technique allows us to get around the atmospheric image blurring and to obtain a resolution near the diffraction limit. This enables high-precision photometry on considerably fainter (smaller) stars in the crowded fields towards the Galactic bulge than obtainable from ground-based surveys. Monitoring smaller source stars in turn provides sensitivity to planets with smaller masses orbiting the lens star.
M.D. is supported by a Royal Society University Research Fellowship
Consortium MiNDSTEp
Dominik Martin
Harpsøe K.
Hessman Frederic V.
Horne Keith
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