Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-01-12
Publ.Astron.Soc.Pac.116:266-277,2004
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
26 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in PASP (March, 2004 issue)
Scientific paper
10.1086/382735
We discuss the system requirements for obtaining millimagnitude photometric precision over a wide field using small aperture short focal length telescope systems, such as are being developed by a number of research groups to search for transiting extra-solar planets. We describe the Hungarian-made Automated Telescope (HAT) system which attempts to meet these requirements. The attainable precision of HAT has been significantly improved by a technique in which the telescope is made to execute small pointing steps during each exposure so as to broaden the effective point spread function of the system to a value more compatible with the pixel size of our CCD detector. Experiments during a preliminary survey (Spring 2003) of two star fields with the HAT-5 instrument allowed us to optimize the HAT photometric precision using this method of PSF broadening; in this way have been able to achieve a precision as good as 2 millimagnitudes on brighter stars. We briefly describe development of a network of HAT telescopes (HATnet) spaced in longitude.
Bakos Gaspar
Domsa Istvan
Kovacs Gabor
Noyes Robert W.
Sasselov Dimitar D.
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