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PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC
卷 123, 期 909, 页码 1273-1289出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/662640
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- NSF [AST-0908419]
- NASA [NNX10AI90G]
- US Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- NASA [131668, NNX10AI90G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences [0908419] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
We demonstrate ground-based submillimagnitude (< 10(-3)) photometry of widely separated bright stars using snapshot CCD imaging. We routinely achieved this photometric precision by (1) choosing nearby comparison stars of a similar magnitude and spectral type, (2) defocusing the telescope to allow high signal (> 10(7) e(-)) to be acquired in a single integration, (3) pointing the telescope so that all stellar images fall on the same detector pixels, and (4) using a region of the CCD detector that is free of nonlinear or aberrant pixels. We describe semiautomated observations with the Supernova Integrated Field Spectrograph (SNIFS) on the University of Hawaii 2.2 m telescope on Mauna Kea, with which we achieved photometric precision as good as 5.2 x 10(-4) (0.56 mmag) with a 5 minute cadence over a 2 hr interval. In one experiment, we monitored eight stars, each separated by several degrees, and achieved submillimagnitude precision with a cadence (per star) of similar to 17 minutes. Our snapshot technique is suitable for automated searches for planetary transits among multiple bright stars.
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