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Published June 24, 2004 | Published
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Sherlock: An Automated Follow-Up Telescope for Wide-Field Transit Searches

Abstract

The most significant challenge currently facing photometric surveys for transiting gas-giant planets is that of confusion with eclipsing binary systems that mimic the photometric signature. A simple way to reject most forms of these false positives is high-precision, rapid-cadence monitoring of the suspected transit at higher angular resolution and in several filters. We are currently building a system that will perform higher-angular-resolution, multi-color follow-up observations of candidate systems identified by Sleuth (our wide-field transit survey instrument at Palomar), and its two twin system instruments in Tenerife and northern Arizona.

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© 2004 American Institute of Physics. Issue Date: 24 June 2004.

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