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Department of Astronomy Colloquium Series 2006/7

Thursday, Nov 1, 3:30 p.m.
2015 McPherson Laboratory

A High Precision Transit Survey of the Open Cluster M37

Joel Hartman
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

I will describe a transit survey underway of the Open Cluster M37 using the Megacam instrument on the 6.5m MMT telescope in Arizona, the goal is to find hot transiting planets as small as Neptune. We have obtained 18.5 nights worth of images of this open cluster and are in the process of analyzing the data. I will provide an overview of the project and present some of our preliminary results.
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