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The STARBASE Network of Telescopes and the Detection of Extrasolar Planets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Charles H. McGruder III ,
Mark E. Everett  and
Steve B. Howell
Charles H. McGruder III
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green KY 42101, USA
Mark E. Everett
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Group, Planetary Science Institute, 620 N. 6th Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85705-8331, USA
Steve B. Howell
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Group, Planetary Science Institute, 620 N. 6th Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85705-8331, USA

Abstract

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A network of longitudinally spaced imaging telescopes is described. Due to the limitations of the radial velocity method extrasolar planets have only been found around bright stars (less than 10 mag). Employment of the network and the photometric method to detect extrasolar planets will lead to the discovery of extrasolar planets at much fainter magnitudes (less than 19 mag).

Type
I. Telescope Arrays and Networking
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 183: Small-Telescope Astronomy on Global Scales , 2001 , pp. 23 - 30
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001

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