The KELT-South Telescope

Details The KELT-South Telescope The KELT-South Telescope

2012-02-08

arxiv.org/abs/1202.1826v2

PASP, Volume 124, issue 913, March 2012, pp.230-241

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

26 pages, 13 figures

Scientific paper

The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) project is a survey for new transiting planets around bright stars. KELT-South is a small-aperture, wide-field automated telescope located at Sutherland, South Africa. The telescope surveys a set of 26 degree by 26 degree fields around the southern sky, and targets stars in the range of 8 < V < 10 mag, searching for transits by Hot Jupiters. This paper describes the KELT-South system hardware and software and discusses the quality of the observations. We show that KELT-South is able to achieve the necessary photometric precision to detect transits of Hot Jupiters around solar-type main-sequence stars.

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