The KELT project is overseen by a collaboration of scientists, including graduate students, professors, staff scientists, and postdocs. The project leaders are Joshua Pepper, Scott Gaudi, and Keivan Stassun. The team manages the two KELT telescopes, acquires and analyzes the images, searches for transit signals in the data, and organizes the follow-up effort and and confirmation of the discovered planets. The full science team is listed below.
The process of confirming the KELT planets involves both the KELT science team, and a large collaboration of observers all across the world who observe and verify the KELT transit candidates. That team is the KELT Follow-Up Network (KFUN), and is described here.
The University of Arizona
Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian
Vanderbilt University
The Ohio State University
Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian
Las Cumbres Observatory
South African Astronomical Observatory
University of Sao Paulo
Caltech/IPAC-NExScI
Louisiana State University
Lehigh University
Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian
The Ohio State University
Gemini Observatory
Vanderbilt University
Penn State University
Lehigh University
Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian
After 14 years of observations, 17 years since the project conception, 26 planets discovered, and dozens of papers, the KELT transit search is ending. This transition has been long-expected, since the NASA TESS mission has revolutionized the discovery of transiting exoplanets. We will continue observations by both KELT telescopes for as long as practical, since there is so much more science to be done outside of transit discovery. Thank you to everyone who supported the KELT project!
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... Read More(Phys.org)—An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new "hot Jupiter" exoplanet with a short orbital period of just three and a half days. The newly detected giant planet, designated KELT-20b, circles a rapidly rotating star known as HD 185603 (or KELT-20). The finding was presented in a paper published July 5 on arXiv.org.
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