ASTEP 400: A telescope designed for exoplanet transit detection from Dome C, Antarctica

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7733, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Daban, Jean Baptiste ^a   Gouvret, Carole ^a   Guillot, Tristan ^b   Agabi, Abdelkrim ^a   Crouzet, Nicolas ^b   Rivet, Jean Pierre ^b   Mekarnia, Djamel ^a   Abe, Lyu ^a   Bondoux, Erick ^a   Fanteï Caujolle, Yan ^a   Fressin, François ^d   Schmider, François Xavier ^a   Valbousquet, Franck ^c   Blanc, Pierre Eric ^e   Le Van Suu, Auguste ^e   Rauer, Heike ^f   Erikson, Anders ^f   Pont, Frederic ^g   Aigrain, Suzanne ^g  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^c Optique et Vision ^*  (France)

^d HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^e OBSERVATOIRE DE HAUTE PROVENCE   (France)

^f GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^g Exeter Observatory   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Exoplanet; Low temperature; Photometry; Telescope construction; Transit

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; EXO-PLANETS; EXOPLANET; FIELD OF VIEWS; HIGH HOMOGENEITY; HIGH STABILITY; LOW TEMPERATURES; PHOTOMETRIC SENSITIVITY; PILOT PROJECTS; TELESCOPE STRUCTURES; TRANSIT; WEATHER CONDITIONS;

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES; CARBON FIBERS; DOMES; OPTICAL DESIGN; PHOTOMETERS; PHOTOMETRY;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 77958147769     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.854946     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (1)

1. Crouzet, N. et al, "ASTEP South: an Antarctic Search for Transiting ExoPlanets around the celestial south pole," A&A 511 (2010) A36.