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The Next Generation Transit Survey—prototyping phase

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McCormac, J. J., Pollacco, Don, Wheatley, Peter J., West, Richard G., Walker, Simon, Bento, Joao Paulo da Silva, Skillen, I., Faedi, Francesca, Burleigh, M. R., Casewell, S. L., Chazelas, B., Genolet, L., Gibson, N. P., Goad, M. R., Lawrie, K. A., Ryans, R., Todd, I., Udry, S. and Watson, C. A. (2017) The Next Generation Transit Survey—prototyping phase. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 129 (972). 025002. doi:10.1088/1538-3873/129/972/025002

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Abstract

We present the prototype telescope for the Next Generation Transit Survey, which was built in the UK in 2008/2009 and tested on La Palma in the Canary Islands in 2010. The goals for the prototype system were severalfold: to determine the level of systematic noise in an NGTS-like system; demonstrate that we can perform photometry at the (sub) millimagnitude level on transit timescales across a wide-field; show that it is possible to detect transiting super-Earth and Neptune-sized exoplanets and prove the technical feasibility of the proposed planet survey. We tested the system for around 100 nights and met each of the goals above. Several key areas for improvement were highlighted during the prototyping phase. They have been subsequently addressed in the final NGTS facility, which was recently commissioned at ESO Cerro Paranal, Chile.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: Q Science > QB Astronomy
Divisions: Faculty of Science > Physics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Astronomical photometry, Large astronomical telescopes, Extrasolar planets, Astronomical spectroscopy
Journal or Publication Title: Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing, Inc.
ISSN: 0004-6280
Official Date: 6 January 2017
Dates:
DateEvent
6 January 2017Published
28 October 2016Accepted
Volume: 129
Number: 972
Article Number: 025002
DOI: 10.1088/1538-3873/129/972/025002
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access
Funder: Queen's University of Belfast, University of Warwick, University of Leicester, Great Britain. Department for the Economy, Great Britain. Department for Communities, Science and Technology Facilities Council (Great Britain) (STFC)
Grant number: ST/M001962/1 (STFC), ST/L000733/1 (STFC)

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