The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT): A Small Robotic Telescope for Large‐Area Synoptic Surveys
By Joshua A. Pepper, R. Pogge, D. DePoy, J. Marshall, Krzysztof Zbigniew Stanek, A. Stutz, S. Poindexter, R. Siverd, T. P. O'Brien, M. Trueblood and 3 more. 2007
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The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) project is a survey for planetary transits of bright stars. It consists of a small‐aperture, wide‐field automated telescope located at Winer Observatory near Sonoita, Arizona. The telescope surveys a set of 26° × 26° fields that together cover about 25% of the northern sky, and targets stars in the range of 8<V<10 mag, searching for transits by close‐in Jupiters. This paper describes the system hardware and software and discusses the quality of the observations. We show that KELT is able to achieve the necessary photometric precision to detect planetary transits around solar‐type main‐sequence stars.
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