Hat-south: A Global Network Of Wide Angle Telescopes Searching For Transiting Extrasolar Planets Around Bright Stars
Abstract
HAT-South is the first global network dedicated to searching for transiting planets. With stations in Chile, Australia, and Namibia (managed by CfA/PUC, ANU and MPIA, respectively), it provides a unique, high precision, 24-hour data-stream on stars brighter than 14th magnitude. The HAT-South instruments were installed in 2009, and the network began preliminary operations in 2010. Each site hosts a pair of telescope mounts, and each mount is equipped with four 0.18m diameter, f/2.8 reflectors and four 4Kx4K CCDs. This yields a 8x8 degree mosaic field per mount, imaged onto 64 megapixels. We describe further details of the instrument in our poster, including the instrument control software environment responsible for the fully automated operations. We also summarize the first year of operations, data-flow, initial performance, and early results.
- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #217
- Pub Date:
- January 2011
- Bibcode:
- 2011AAS...21725302B