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SPECULOOS

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Search for habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars
Alternative namesSPECULOOS Edit this on Wikidata
Named afterspeculoos Edit this on Wikidata
Location(s)Paranal Observatory, Teide Observatory, Chile, Spain Edit this at Wikidata
OrganizationEuropean Southern Observatory
University of Liège Edit this on Wikidata
Telescope styleastronomical survey
infrared telescope
Ritchey–Chrétien telescope Edit this on Wikidata
Number of telescopes5 Edit this on Wikidata
Diameter1 m (3 ft 3 in) Edit this at Wikidata
Websitewww.speculoos.uliege.be Edit this at Wikidata
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SPECULOOS (Search for habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars) is a project consisting of SPECULOOS Southern Observatory (SSO) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile and SPECULOOS Northern Observatory (SNO) at the Teide Observatory in Tenerife.[1][2]

The SSO consists of four Ritchey–Chrétien telescopes of 1-metre primary aperture, made by ASTELCO. Each telescope is equipped with a NTM-1000 robotic mount and will search for Earth-sized exoplanets around 1000 ultra-cool stars and brown dwarfs.[3][4][5][6][7] As of June 2019, the SNO consists of one telescope, but more might be added in the future with up to three telescopes for SNO.[8] SPECULOOS is complemented by SAINT-EX and TRAPPIST.[9]

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  4. ^ "Speculoos". Orca.ulg.ac.be. Archived from the original on 2016-08-08. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
  5. ^ Samuel Reich, Eugenie (2013-10-29). "Astronomers revisit dwarf stars' promise". Nature News. 502 (7473): 606. doi:10.1038/502606a. PMID 24172958.
  6. ^ "SPECULOOS, a search for terrestrial planets transiting the nearest ultra-cool stars (Speaker: Michael Gillon)". Space.mit.edu. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
  7. ^ "Research". SPECULOOS. Archived from the original on 22 May 2017. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  8. ^ "3Q: Julien de Wit on Searching for Red Worlds in the Northern Skies | MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences". eapsweb.mit.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
  9. ^ "SPECULNEW - The Project". www.speculoos.uliege.be. Retrieved 2020-03-10.

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