MINERVA-Australis: Two years of TESS follow-up
| Main Authors: | Wittenmyer, Robert, Zhou, George, Huang, Chelsea, Horner, Jonathan, Ballard, Sarah, Bedding, Tim, Bowler, Brendan, Kane, Stephen, Kielkopf, John, Liu, Huigen, Plavchan, Peter, Shporer, Avi, Tinney, C.G., Zhang, Hui, Wright, Duncan |
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| Other Authors: | Adams, Elisabeth R |
| Format: | Proceeding poster Journal |
| Terbitan: |
, 2021
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/5118052 |
Daftar Isi:
- MINERVA-Australis at the University of Southern Queensland's Mount Kent Observatory is the only southern hemisphere precise radial velocity facility wholly dedicated to follow-up of TESS planets. MINERVA-Australis is a partnership between MIT, UNSW Sydney, George Mason University, University of Louisville, Nanjing University, UC-Riverside, University of Texas, and the University of Florida. Observing time is also available to the US community via NSF NOIRLab proposal calls. Being fully robotic, we have been unaffected by Covid-19 closures. We have contributed data to the validation of 23 TESS planets. I give an overview and update of operations, highlighting our recent mass measurements for TOI-778 and TOI-1842. I also describe our new photometric capabilities, aiming to validate small TESS planets and to rescue planets from ephemeris erosion.