Bibcode
Tsapras, Yiannis; Street, Rachel A.; Horne, Keith; Penny, Alan; Clarke, Fraser; Deeg, Hans; Garzon, Francisco; Kemp, Simon; Zapatero Osorio, Maria Rosa; Oscoz, Alejandro Abad; Sanchez, Santiago Madruga; Eiroa, Carlos; Mora, Alcione; Alberdi, Antxon; Collier Cameron, Andrew; Davies, John K.; Ferlet, Roger; Grady, Carol; Harris, Allan W.; Palacios, Javier; Quirrenbach, Andreas; Rauer, Heike; Schneider, Jean; de Winter, Dolf; Merin, Bruno; Solano, Enrique
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 325, Issue 3, pp. 1205-1212.
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2001
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Description
In 1998 the EXPORT team monitored microlensing event light curves using
a charge-coupled device (CCD) camera on the IACQ4 0.8-m telescope on
Tenerife to evaluate the prospect of using northern telescopes to find
microlens anomalies that reveal planets orbiting the lens stars. The
high airmass and more limited time available for observations of
Galactic bulge sources make a northern site less favourable for
microlensing planet searches. However, there are potentially a large
number of northern 1-m class telescopes that could devote a few hours
per night to monitor ongoing microlensing events. Our IAC observations
indicate that accuracies sufficient to detect planets can be achieved
despite the higher airmass.