KELT: A Wide-Field Survey of Bright Stars for Transiting Planets Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • AbstractThe Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) is a wide-field (26 26) robotic survey telescope currently operating in Sonoita, Arizona. Assembled from commercial and off-the-shelf devices, KELT currently surveys ~40% of the Northern sky with sufficient precision to detect transiting planets around bright (8 < V < 12) stars. In the past several years of operation, over 30,000 science images have been acquired. Planet candidate selection and follow-up are currently underway. A brief overview of past and present survey operations, the data reduction pipeline, and initial results follows below.

published proceedings

  • Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union

author list (cited authors)

  • Siverd, R. J., Pepper, J., Stanek, K., Pogge, R. W., Gaudi, B. S., & DePoy, D. L.

citation count

  • 3

complete list of authors

  • Siverd, Robert J||Pepper, Joshua||Stanek, Kris||Pogge, Richard W||Gaudi, B Scott||DePoy, Darren L

publication date

  • May 2008