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Réseau coréen de télescopes à microlentilles

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Also known as Korea Microlensing Telescope Network

The Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet; ) is an ongoing wide-field photometric system that aims to discover extrasolar planets using gravitational microlensing. The system leverages three identical 1.6 m wide-field optical telescopes located at the Cerro-Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile, the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) in South Africa, and the Siding Spring Observatory (SSO) in Australia. All three telescopes share a latitude of −30 degrees enabling continuous monitoring of the galactic bulge during 8 months of each year and other targets in the sou

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It sits within the topics Astronomical surveys, Exoplanet search projects and Optical telescopes.

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