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The HATSouth Project |
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HATSouth is a collaboration among the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, the Princeton University, the Australian National University, and the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. It consists of a network of six identical, fully automated wide field telescopes, located at three sites (Chile: Las Campanas, Australia: Siding Springs, and Namibia: HESS site) in the Southern hemisphere. Each of the three sites operates two HATS units, for increased sky coverage and redundancy in case of failure. Each unit is composed of a suite of four 0.18m f/2.8 Takahashi hyperbolic astrographs, each incorporating an Apogee 4K×4K CCD detector with Sloan r filter, and each spanning a 4°×4° field of view. This means that every HATS instrument has a mosaic field of view of 8°×8°, so each site monitors 128 square degrees of sky. The primary purpose of the project is to detect and characterize a large number of extrasolar planets transiting nearby bright stars. The three sites permit near round-the-clock monitoring of selected fields, and the continuous data-stream greatly enhances recovery of planetary transits.
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Review papers of the project |
HATSouth: a global network of fully automated and identical wide-field telescopes G. Á. Bakos, Z. Csubry, K. Penev, D. Bayliss, A. Jordan, C. Afonso, J. D. Hartman, T. Henning, G. Kovacs, R. W. Noyes, B. Béky, V. Suc, B. Csak, M. Rabus, J. Lazar, I. Papp, P. Sari, P. Conroy, G. Zhou, P. D. Sackett, B. Schmidt, L. Mancini, D. D. Sasselov, K. Ueltzhoeffer
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 125,
154 (2013) HAT-South: a global network of southern hemisphere automated telescopes to detect transiting exoplanets by G. Bakos et al. Conference Proceedings of the IAU Symposium #253 (2008) Link
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Extrasolar Planets discovered so far |
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HATS-1b: a hot jupiter discovered by the HATSouth transit survey K.
Penev, G. A. Bakos, D. Bayliss, A. Jordŕn, M. Mohler, G. Zhou,
V. Suc, M. Rabus, J. D. Hartman, L. Mancini, B. Béky, Z.
Csubry, L. Buchhave, T. Henning, N. Nikolov, B. Csŕk, R.
Brahm, N. Espinoza, P. Conroy, R. W. Noyes, D. D. Sasselov, B.
Schmidt, D. J. Wright, C. G. Tinney, B. C. Addison, J. Lŕzŕr,
I. Papp, P. Sŕri ADS abstract –– preprint (arXiv: 1206.1524) HATS-2b: a transiting extrasolar planet orbiting a K-type star showing starspot activity M.
Mohler-Fischer, L.
Mancini, J. D. Hartman, G. A. Bakos, K. Penev, D. Bayliss,
A. Jordan, Z. Csubry, G. Zhou, M. Rabus, N. Nikolov, R.
Brahm, N. Espinoza, L. A. Buchhave, B. Beky, V. Suc, B.
Csak, T. Henning, D. J. Wright, C. G. Tinney, B. C. Addison,
B. Schmidt, R. W. Noyes, I. Papp, J. Lazar, P. Sari, and P.
Conroy ADS abstract –– preprint (arXiv: 1304.2140)
HATS-3b: An inflated hot Jupiter transiting an F-type star ADS abstract –– preprint (arXiv:1306.0624)
HATS-4b: a dense hot-Jupiter transiting a
super metal-rich G star ADS abstract –– preprint (arXiv:1402.6546)
HATS-5b: a transiting hot-Saturn from the
HATSouth Survey ADS abstract –– preprint (arXiv:1401.1582)
HATS-6b: a warm Saturn transiting an early
M dwarf star, and a set of empirical relations for
characterizing K and M dwarf planet hosts ADS abstract –– preprint (arXiv:1408.1758)
HATS-7b: a hot super Neptune transiting a quiet K dwarf star G. A. Bakos, K. Penev, D. Bayliss, J. D. Hartman, G. Zhou, R. Brahm, L. Mancini, M. de Val-Borro, W. Bhatti, A. Jordan, M. Rabus, N. Espinoza, Z. Csubry, A. W. Howard, B. J. Fulton, L. A. Buchhave, S. Ciceri, T. Henning, B. Schmidt, H. Isaacson, R. W. Noyes, G. W. Marcy, V. Suc, A. R. Howe, A. S. Burrows, J. Lazar, I. Papp, P. Sari12
The Astrophysical Journal 813, 111 (10 pp.), 2015 ADS abstract –– preprint (arXiv:1507.01024) HATS-8b: a low-density transiting super-Neptune D. Bayliss, J. D. Hartman, G. A. Bakos, K. Penev, G. Zhou, R. Brahm, M. Rabus, A. Jordan, L. Mancini, M. de Val-Borro, W. Bhatti, N. Espinoza, Z. Csubry, A. W. Howard, B. J. Fulton, L. A. Buchhave, T. Henning, B. Schmidt, S. Ciceri, R. W. Noyes, H. Isaacson, G. W. Marcy, V. Suc, J. Lazar, I. Papp, P. Sari The Astronomical Journal 150, 49 (9 pp.), 2015 ADS abstract –– preprint (arXiv:1506.01334)
HATS-9b and HATS-10b: two compact hot jupiters in field 7 of the K2 mission R. Brahm, A. Jordan, J. D. Hartman, G. A. Bakos, D. Bayliss, K. Penev, G. Zhou, S. Ciceri, M. Rabus, N. Espinoza, L. Mancini, M. de Val-Borro, W. Bhatti, B. Sato, T. G. Tan, Z. Csubry, L. Buchhave, T. Henning, B. Schmidt, V. Suc, R. W. Noyes, I. Papp, J. Lazar, P. Sari The Astronomical Journal 150, 33 (13 pp.), 2015 ADS abstract –– preprint (arXiv:1503.00062)
HATS-11b and HATS-12b: two transiting hot Jupiters orbiting sub-solar metallicity stars selected for the K2 Campaign 7 M. Rabus, A. Jordán, J. D. Hartman, G. Á. Bakos, N. Espinoza, R. Brahm, K. Penev, S. Ciceri, G. Zhou, D. Bayliss, L. Mancini, W. Bhatti, M. de Val-Borro, Z. Csbury, B. Sato, T.-G. Tan, T. Henning, B. Schmidt, J. Bento, V. Suc, R. Noyes, J. Lázár, I. Papp, P. Sári The
Astronomical Journal 152, 88 (13 pp.), 2016 ADS abstract –– preprint (arXiv:1603.02894)
HATS-13b and HATS-14b: two transiting hot Jupiters from the HATSouth survey L. Mancini, J. D. Hartman, K. Penev, G. A. Bakos, R. Brahm, S. Ciceri, Th. Henning, Z. Csubry, D. Bayliss, G. Zhou, M. Rabus, M. de Val-Borro, N. Espinoza, A. Jordan, V. Suc, W. Bhatti, B. Schmidt, B. Sato, T. G. Tan, D. J. Wright, C. G. Tinney, B. C. Addison, R. W. Noyes, J. Lazar, I. Papp, P. Sari Astronomy & Astrophysics 580, A63 (13 pp.), 2015 ADS abstract –– preprint (arXiv:1503.03469)
HATS-15 b and HATS-16 b: Two massive
planets transiting old G dwarf stars Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 128, 074401, 2016 ADS abstract –– preprint (arXiv:1511.06305)HATS-17b:
A transiting compact warm Jupiter in a 16.3 days circular
orbit The Astronomical Journal 151, 89 (11 pp.), 2016 ADS abstract –– preprint (arXiv:1510.05758)HATS-18
b: an extreme short-period massive transiting planet
spinning up its star The
Astronomical Journal 152, 127 (11 pp.), 2016 ADS abstract –– preprint (arXiv:1606.00848) HATS-19b,
HATS-20b, HATS-21b: Three Transiting Hot-Saturns Discovered
by the HATSouth Survey Submitted
to The Astronomical Journal, 2016 HATS-22b,
HATS-23b and HATS-24b: Three new transiting Super-Jupiters
from the HATSouth Project Monthly
Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 468, 835-848, 2017 HATS-25b
through HATS-30b: A Half-dozen New Inflated Transiting Hot
Jupiters from the HATSouth Survey Astronomical
Journal 152, 108 (18 pp.), 2016 ADS abstract –– preprint (arXiv:1606.00023) HATS-31b
Through HATS-35b: Five Transiting Hot Jupiters Discovered by
the HATSouth Survey The
Astronomical Journal 152, 161 (16 pp.), 2016 HATS-36b
and 24 other transiting/eclipsing systems from the HATSouth
- K2 Campaign 7 program The
Astronomical Journal 155, 119 (14 pp.), 2018 HATS-39b,
HATS-40b, HATS-41b, and HATS-42b: Three Inflated Hot
Jupiters and a Super-Jupiter Transiting F Stars
Monthly
Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 477, 3406-3423,
2018
The
Astronomical Journal 155, 112 (18 pp.), 2018
ADS abstract –– preprint (arXiv: 1707.07093)
The
Astronomical Journal 155, 79 (20 pp.), 2018
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abstract
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preprint
(arXiv:1712.04324) The
Astronomical Journal 156, 216 (11 pp.), 2018
ADS abstract –– preprint (arXiv:1805.05925)
The
Astronomical Journal 157, 55 (27 pp.), 2018
ADS abstract –– preprint (arXiv:1809.01048)
The
Astronomical Journal 157, 31 (14 pp.), 2019
ADS abstract –– preprint (arXiv:1811.06925)
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Operation at HESS Site |
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Two of the HAT-South telescopes are located in the HESS site, which is located in Khomas Highland of Namibia, on the Farm Goellschau, about 100 km south-west of Windhoek, Namibias capital. |
Google Map of the HESS site
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The exact location is: 23° 16' 10.17'' S 16° 30' 10.17'' E |
AMSL:
1800 m |
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A 24 hour video clip of the telescopes on October 10, 2011 |
Editor of this page: Luigi Mancini