Early Results from the KELT Transit Survey

The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) project is a small-aperture transit survey of bright stars. The project has completed commissioning runs searching for transits in the Hyades and Praesepe, and is well into a multi-year survey of a large portion of the Northern Hemisphere. Here we des...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2006-12
Main Authors: Pepper, Joshua, Pogge, Richard, DePoy, D L, Marshall, J L, Stutz, Amelia, Trueblood, Mark, Trueblood, Pat, Stanek, Kris
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Apertures
Northern Hemisphere
Transit
Transits
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Summary:The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) project is a small-aperture transit survey of bright stars. The project has completed commissioning runs searching for transits in the Hyades and Praesepe, and is well into a multi-year survey of a large portion of the Northern Hemisphere. Here we describe the setup of the telescope and discuss the early data.
ISSN:2331-8422