Sherlock: An Automated Follow-Up Telescope for Wide-Field Transit Searches

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2003-12-16

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0312432v1

AIP Conf. Proc. 713, 173 (2004)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 3 figures, to appear in AIP Conf Proc: The Search for Other Worlds, eds. S. S. Holt & D. Deming

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1774519

The most significant challenge currently facing photometric surveys for transiting gas-giant planets is that of confusion with eclipsing binary systems that mimic the photometric signature. A simple way to reject most forms of these false positives is high-precision, rapid-cadence monitoring of the suspected transit at higher angular resolution and in several filters. We are currently building a system that will perform higher-angular-resolution, multi-color follow-up observations of candidate systems identified by Sleuth (our wide-field transit survey instrument at Palomar), and its two twin system instruments in Tenerife and northern Arizona.

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