The Next Generation Transit Survey

This talk introduced and described the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS), which is a new ground-based transit survey operating at the ESO Paranal Observatory. NGTS has been designed to achieve better photometric precision than previous ground-based surveys; it aims to detect Neptune-sized planet...

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Published inProceedings of the International Astronomical Union Vol. 14; no. S339; p. 22
Main Author Burleigh, M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.11.2017
Subjects
Astronomy
Contributed Papers
European Southern Observatory
Extrasolar planets
Photometry
Planet detection
Polls & surveys
Red dwarf stars
Transit
Velocity
Radio continuum: transients
surveys
radio continuum: stars
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Summary:This talk introduced and described the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS), which is a new ground-based transit survey operating at the ESO Paranal Observatory. NGTS has been designed to achieve better photometric precision than previous ground-based surveys; it aims to detect Neptune-sized planets around Sun-like stars, and sub-Neptunes around M dwarfs that are sufficiently bright for radial-velocity confirmation and mass determination. NGTS is also optimised for ground-based follow up of exoplanet candidates from TESS and PLATO. I presented early results from the survey, and described the status of our HARPS radial-velocity and SAAO photometric follow-ups of exoplanet candidates.
ISSN:1743-9213
1743-9221
DOI:10.1017/S1743921318002132