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Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search

(SWEEPS)
(transit search using HST time)

The Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search (SWEEPS) was a survey aimed at finding transients indicating extra-solar planet transits, using HST ACS observation time in 2006 over a portion of Baade's Window. It observed 180,000 stars in the galactic bulge over seven days and found 16 planets.


(survey,exoplanets,transits,past)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_Window_Eclipsing_Extrasolar_Planet_Search
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009IAUS..253...45S/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008ASPC..398...93S/abstract
https://cds.unistra.fr//cgi-bin/Dic-Simbad?SWEEPS
Coordinates:SWEEPS
J175900+291130
PrefixExample  
SWEEPSSWEEPS-16 

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