NGTS: a robotic transit survey to detect Neptune and super-Earth mass planets
Abstract
NGTS is a new ground-based transit survey aimed at detecting sub-Neptune sized exoplanets around bright stars. The instrument will be installed at the ESO Paranal observatory in order to benefit from the excellent observing conditions and follow-up synergy with the VLT and E-ELT. It will be a robotic facility composed of 12, 200 mm telescopes equipped with 2Kx2K NIR sensitive detectors. It is built on the legacy of the WASP experience.
- Publication:
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Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes IV
- Pub Date:
- September 2012
- DOI:
- 10.1117/12.925755
- Bibcode:
- 2012SPIE.8444E..0EC