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HAT-South: A Global Network of Southern Hemisphere Automated Telescopes to Detect Transiting Exoplanets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2008

G. Bakos ,
C. Afonso ,
T. Henning ,
A. Jordán ,
M. Holman ,
R. W. Noyes ,
P. D. Sackett ,
D. Sasselov ,
Gábor Kovács  and
Z. Csubry
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G. Bakos
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden street, MA02138, USA email: [email protected]
C. Afonso
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute für Astronomie
T. Henning
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute für Astronomie
A. Jordán
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute für Astronomie
M. Holman
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden street, MA02138, USA email: [email protected]
R. W. Noyes
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden street, MA02138, USA email: [email protected]
P. D. Sackett
Affiliation:
Australian National University
D. Sasselov
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden street, MA02138, USA email: [email protected]
Gábor Kovács
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden street, MA02138, USA email: [email protected]
Z. Csubry
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden street, MA02138, USA email: [email protected]
A. Pál
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden street, MA02138, USA email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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HAT-South is a network of six identical, fully automated wide field telescopes, to be located at three sites (Chile: Las Campanas, Australia: Siding Springs, and Namibia: HESS site) in the Southern hemisphere. The primary purpose of the network is to detect and characterize a large number of extra-solar planets transiting nearby bright stars, and to explore their diversity. Operation of HAT-South is a collaboration among the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) and the Australian National University (ANU). The network is expected to be ready for initial science operations in 2009. The three sites will permit near round-the-clock monitoring of selected fields, and the continuous data-stream will greatly enhance recovery of transits. HAT-South will be sensitive to planetary transits down to R≈14 across a 128 square-degrees combined field of view, thereby targeting a large number of dwarfs with feasible confirmation-mode follow-up. We anticipate a yearly detection rate of approximately 25 planets transiting bright stars.

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Contributed Papers
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 4 , Symposium S253: Transiting Planets , May 2008 , pp. 354 - 357
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2009

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