巡天系统 NGTS帮助搜寻第二个地球 + MEarth

[peter]

http://www.cnbeta.com/articles/363331.htm

一个新的巡天项目开始运作，它将帮助我们搜寻与地球相似的系外行星，甚至有望找到“第二个地球”。这套系统安装在南美洲智利的高海拔沙漠之中，名为“下一代凌星巡天”(NGTS)，它将自动扫描夜空，寻找它的目标。该项目是一个广域巡天观测系统，包括一个包含12台望远镜的阵列，每一台成员望远镜的口径均为20厘米

“下一代凌星巡天”(NGTS)由一个阵列的20厘米口径望远镜组成，将致力于发现海王星大小甚至更小的系外行星，其直径大致介于地球直径的2~8倍之间




http://www.ngtransits.org/
 Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS)

http://phys.org/news/2015-01-exoplanet-hunting-telescopes-paranal.html



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2910739/The-telescopes-new-Earth-Planet-hunting-project-starts-automatically-scanning-skies-exoplanets.html

The Next-Generation Transit Survey is made up of an array of twelve 20cm telescopes, and will focus on discovering Neptune-sized and smaller planets, with diameters two and eight times that of Earth.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2910739/The-telescopes-new-Earth-Planet-hunting-project-starts-automatically-scanning-skies-exoplanets.html#ixzz3P2vjwdMV
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其他 telescope array

Chile telescope array (MEarth) spots nearby Earth-sized planet

http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/content/chile-telescope-array-mearth-spots-nearby-earth-sized-planet



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEarth_Project
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/MEarth/Telescopes.html

 MEarth-North  部份


=>  Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (FLWO )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Lawrence_Whipple_Observatory

MEarth-South Observatory
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) on Cerro Tololo, just east of La Serena, Chile.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerro_Tololo_Inter-American_Observatory


http://familystar.org.tw/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=39&topic=19957.new#new



 RC Optical Systems 40 cm (16 in) f/9 Ritchey-Chrétien telescopes (on Paramount ME robotic mounts) paired with commercially available cameras with 2048 × 2048 Apogee U42 CCDs.


https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/MEarth/Telescopes.html

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