2 papers
astro-ph.IM2020
The Tierras Observatory: An ultra-precise photometer to characterize nearby terrestrial exoplanets
Juliana García-Mejía, David Charbonneau, Daniel Fabricant +4
We report on the status of the Tierras Observatory, a refurbished 1.3-m ultra-precise fully-automated photometer located at the F. L. Whipple Observatory atop Mt. Hopkins, Arizona.…
astro-ph.IM2018
A collimated beam projector for precise telescope calibration
Michael Coughlin, T. M. C. Abbott, Kairn Brannon +7
The precise determination of the instrumental response function versus wavelength is a central ingredient in contemporary photometric calibration strategies. This typically entails…