Astrophysics, abstract
astro-ph/0510766

From: Avi Shporer [view email]

Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 09:24:49 GMT (165kb)

The WHAT Project

Authors: A. Shporer, T. Mazeh, A. Moran, G. Bakos, G. Kovacs, E. Mashal

Comments: 3 pages, 3 figures; to appear in the proceedings of Haute Provence Observatory Colloquium (22-25 August 2005) "Tenth anniversary of 51 Peg-b: Status of and prospects for hot Jupiter studies", ed. L. Arnold, F. Bouchy, & C. Moutou

We describe WHAT, a small-aperture short focal length automated telescope with an 8.2 deg X 8.2 deg field of view, located at the Wise Observatory. The system is aimed at searching for transiting extrasolar planets and variable stars.

Preliminary results of 3892 exposures of a single field are presented, where the telescope achieved already a precision of a few mmag for the brightest objects. Additional information can be found at this http URL .

http://wise-obs.tau.ac.il/~what/

http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0510766