The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope: Searching for Transiting Exoplanets in the Northern and Southern Sky

Jack Soutter, Jonti Horner, Joshua Pepper (KELT Science Team)
(Submitted on 9 May 2016)

The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) survey is a ground-based program designed to search for transiting exoplanets orbiting relatively bright stars. To achieve this, the KELT Science Team operates two planets facilities – KELT-North, at Winer Observatory, Arizona, and KELT-South, at the South African Astronomical Observatory. The telescopes used at these observatories have particularly wide fields of view, allowing KELT to study a large number of potential exoplanet host stars. One of the major advantages of targeting bright stars is that the exoplanet candidates detected can be easily followed up by small, ground-based observatories distributed around the world. This paper will provide a brief overview of the KELT-North and the KELT-South surveys, the follow-up observations preformed by the KELT Follow-up Collaboration, and exoplanet discoveries confirmed thus far, before concluding with a brief discussion of the future for the KELT program.

Comments: 13 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed proceeding of the 15th Australian Space Research Conference, held at UNSW Australia, Canberra, 29th September – 1st October 2015
Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
Cite as: arXiv:1605.02425 [astro-ph.EP] (or arXiv:1605.02425v1 [astro-ph.EP] for this version)
Submission history
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[v1] Mon, 9 May 2016 06:06:53 GMT (506kb)
http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.02425