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Yet Another Survey Paper: PSST
The November 2004 issue of Publications of the Astronomical
Society of the Pacific contains an article titled "PSST: The
Planet Search Survey Telescope." No, this isn't the same
as the "PASS" paper I mentioned last month.
PSST is based on a 300-mm camera lens with a 2k-by-2k CCD
at the focal plane, covering an area about 6x6 degrees on a
side. The idea is to concentrate on a few fields intensively,
in order to detect small dips in brightness due to transiting
planets.
You can find a copy on-line at
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?
bibcode=2004PASP..116.1072D&db_key=AST&high=416a79eb0023963
There is no draft posted on astro-ph, alas, nor any web site
for the project which contains a copy of the paper :-(
Michael Richmond