# The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT): A Small Robotic Telescope for Large‐Area Synoptic Surveys

@article{Pepper2007TheKE,
title={The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT): A Small Robotic Telescope for Large‐Area Synoptic Surveys},
author={Joshua A. Pepper and Richard W. Pogge and Darren Lee Depoy and Jennifer L. Marshall and Krzysztof Zbigniew Stanek and Amelia M. Stutz and Shawn Poindexter and Robert J. Siverd and Thomas Paul O'Brien and Mark Trueblood and Patricia Trueblood The Ohio State University Department of Astronomy and University of Arizona Department of Astronomy and Winer Observatory},
journal={Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific},
year={2007},
volume={119},
pages={923-935}
}
• J. Pepper, +10 authors W. Observatory
• Published 3 April 2007
• Physics
• Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
ABSTRACT The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) project is a survey for planetary transits of bright stars. It consists of a small‐aperture, wide‐field automated telescope located at Winer Observatory near Sonoita, Arizona. The telescope surveys a set of 26° × 26° fields that together cover about 25% of the northern sky, and targets stars in the range of \documentclass{aastex} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{bm} \usepackage{mathrsfs…
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