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dc.contributor.authorCrossfield, Ian Jm
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-10T20:52:16Z
dc.date.available2021-09-20T18:22:14Z
dc.date.available2022-08-10T20:52:16Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/132399.2
dc.description.abstract© 2019. The Astronomical Society of the Pacific. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. The MINERVA-Australis telescope array is a facility dedicated to the follow-up, confirmation, characterization, and mass measurement of planets orbiting bright stars discovered by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) —a category in which it is almost unique in the Southern Hemisphere. It is located at the University of Southern Queensland’s Mount Kent Observatory near Toowoomba, Australia. Its flexible design enables multiple 0.7 m robotic telescopes to be used both in combination, and independently, for high-resolution spectroscopy and precision photometry of TESS transit planet candidates. MINERVA-Australis also enables complementary studies of exoplanet spin–orbit alignments via Doppler observations of the Rossiter–McLaughlin effect, radial velocity searches for nontransiting planets, planet searches using transit timing variations, and ephemeris refinement for TESS planets. In this first paper, we describe the design, photometric instrumentation, software, and science goals of MINERVA-Australis, and note key differences from its Northern Hemisphere counterpart, the MINERVA array. We use recent transit observations of four planets, WASP-2b, WASP-44b, WASP-45b, and HD 189733b, to demonstrate the photometric capabilities of MINERVA-Australis.en_US
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherIOP Publishingen_US
dc.relation.isversionof10.1088/1538-3873/AB03AAen_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alikeen_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/en_US
dc.sourcearXiven_US
dc.titleMinerva-Australis. I. Design, Commissioning, and First Photometric Resultsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physicsen_US
dc.relation.journalPublications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacificen_US
dc.eprint.versionAuthor's final manuscripten_US
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticleen_US
eprint.statushttp://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerRevieweden_US
dc.date.updated2020-10-19T17:42:37Z
dspace.orderedauthorsAddison, B; Wright, DJ; Wittenmyer, RA; Horner, J; Mengel, MW; Johns, D; Marti, C; Nicholson, B; Soutter, J; Bowler, B; Crossfield, I; Kane, SR; Kielkopf, J; Plavchan, P; Tinney, CG; Zhang, H; Clark, JT; Clerte, M; Eastman, JD; Swift, J; Bottom, M; Muirhead, P; McCrady, N; Herzig, E; Hogstrom, K; Wilson, M; Sliski, D; Johnson, SA; Wright, JT; Johnson, JA; Blake, C; Riddle, R; Lin, B; Cornachione, M; Bedding, TR; Stello, D; Huber, D; Marsden, S; Carter, BDen_US
dspace.date.submission2020-10-19T17:42:39Z
mit.journal.volume131en_US
mit.journal.issue1005en_US
mit.licenseOPEN_ACCESS_POLICY
mit.metadata.statusPublication Information Neededen_US


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