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2018PASP..130g4401B - Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac., 130, part no 7, 4401-74401 (2018/July-0)
KPS-1b: the first transiting eXoplanet discovered using an amateur Astronomer's wide-field CCD data.
BURDANOV A., BENNI P., SOKOV E., KRUSHINSKY V., POPOV A., DELREZ L., GILLON M., HEBRARD G., DELEUIL M., WILSON P.A., DEMANGEON O., BASTURK O., PAKSTIENE E., SOKOVA I., RUSOV S.A., DYACHENKO V.V., RASTEGAEV D.A., BESKAKOTOV A., MARCHINI A., BRETTON M., SHADICK S. and IVANOV K.
Abstract (from CDS):
We report the discovery of the transiting hot Jupiter KPS-1b. This exoplanet orbits a V = 13.0 K1-type main-sequence star every 1.7 days, has a mass of 1.090–0.087+0.086MJup and a radius of 1.03–0.12+0.13RJup. The discovery was made by the prototype Kourovka Planet Search (KPS) project, which used wide-field CCD data gathered by an amateur astronomer using readily available and relatively affordable equipment. Here we describe the equipment and observing technique used for the discovery of KPS-1b, its characterization with spectroscopic observations by the SOPHIE spectrograph and with high-precision photometry obtained with 1 m class telescopes. We also outline the KPS project evolution into the Galactic Plane eXoplanet survey. The discovery of KPS-1b represents a new major step of the contribution of amateur astronomers to the burgeoning field of exoplanetology.
Abstract Copyright: © 2018. The Astronomical Society of the Pacific. All rights reserved.
Journal keyword(s):
Nomenclature: NAME KPS-1 N=1, NAME KPS-1b N=1.
Simbad objects: 6
