The Next Generation Transit Survey
Abstract
This talk introduced and described the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS), which is a new ground-based transit survey operating at the ESO Paranal Observatory. NGTS has been designed to achieve better photometric precision than previous ground-based surveys; it aims to detect Neptune-sized planets around Sun-like stars, and sub-Neptunes around M dwarfs that are sufficiently bright for radial-velocity confirmation and mass determination. NGTS is also optimised for ground-based follow up of exoplanet candidates from TESS and PLATO. I presented early results from the survey, and described the status of our HARPS radial-velocity and SAAO photometric follow-ups of exoplanet candidates.
- Publication:
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Southern Horizons in Time-Domain Astronomy
- Pub Date:
- August 2019
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921318002132
- Bibcode:
- 2019IAUS..339...22B
- Keywords:
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- Radio continuum: transients;
- radio continuum: stars;
- surveys