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Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2022

Observation scheduling and automatic data reduction for the Antarctic telescope, ASTEP+

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The possibility to observe transiting exoplanets from Dome C in Antarctica provides immense benefits: stable weather conditions, limited atmospheric turbulence, and a night that lasts almost three months due to the austral winter. However, this site also presents significant limitations, such as limited access for maintenance and internet speeds of only a few KB/s. This latter factor means that the approximately 6 TB of data collected annually must be processed on site automatically, with only final data products being sent once a day to Europe. In this context, we present the current state of operations of ASTEP+, a 40 cm optical telescope located at Concordia Station in Antarctica. Following a successful summer campaign, ASTEP+ has begun the 2022 observing season with a brand-new two-colour photometer with increased sensitivity. A new Python data analysis pipeline installed on a dedicated server in Concordia will significantly improve the precision of the extracted photometry, enabling us to get higher signal-to-noise transit detections. The new pipeline additionally incorporates automatic transit modelling to reduce the amount of manual post-processing required. It also handles the automatic daily transfer of the photometric lightcurves and control data to Europe. Additionally, we present the Python and web-based systems used for selection and scheduling of transit observations; these systems have wide applicability for the scheduling of other astronomical observations with strong time constraints. We also review the type of science that ASTEP+ will be conducting and analyse how unique ASTEP+ is to exoplanet transit research.
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hal-04106813 , version 1 (25-05-2023)

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Georgina Dransfield, Djamel Mekarnia, Amaury Triaud, Tristan Guillot, Lyu Abe, et al.. Observation scheduling and automatic data reduction for the Antarctic telescope, ASTEP+. SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, Jul 2022, Montréal, Canada. ⟨10.1117/12.2629920⟩. ⟨hal-04106813⟩
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