The KELT Follow-Up Network and Transit False Positive Catalog: Pre-vetted False Positives for TESS
Creators: name: Collins, Karen A.
name: Collins, Kevin I.
name: Pepper, Joshua
name: Labadie-Bartz, Jonathan
name: Stassun, Keivan
name: Gaudi, B. Scott
name: Bayliss, Daniel
name: Bento, Joao
name: Colón, Knicole D.
name: Feliz, Dax
name: James, David
name: Johnson, Marshall C.
name: Kuhn, Rudolf B.
name: Lund, Michael B.
name: Penny, Matthew T.
name: Rodriguez, Joseph E.
name: Siverd, Robert J.
name: Stevens, Daniel J.
name: Yao, Xinyu
name: Zhou, George
name: Akshay, Mundra
name: Aldi, Giulio F.
name: Ashcraft, Cliff
name: Awiphan, Supachai
name: Baştürk, Özgür
name: Baker, David
name: Beatty, Thomas G.
name: Benni, Paul
name: Berlind, Perry
name: Berriman, G. Bruce
name: Berta-Thompson, Zach
name: Bieryla, Allyson
name: Bozza, Valerio
name: Novati, Sebastiano Calchi
name: Calkins, Michael L.
name: Cann, Jenna M.
name: Ciardi, David R.
name: Clark, Ian R.
name: Cochran, William D.
name: Cohen, David H.
name: Conti, Dennis
name: Crepp, Justin R.
name: Curtis, Ivan A.
name: D'Ago, Giuseppe
name: Diazeguigure, Kenny A.
name: Dressing, Courtney D.
name: Dubois, Franky
name: Ellingson, Erica
name: Ellis, Tyler G.
name: Esquerdo, Gilbert A.
name: Evans, Phil
name: Friedli, Alison
name: Fukui, Akihiko
name: Fulton, Benjamin J.
name: Gonzales, Erica J.
name: Good, John C.
name: Gregorio, Joao
name: Gumusayak, Tolga
name: Hancock, Daniel A.
name: Harada, Caleb K.
name: Hart, Rhodes
name: Hintz, Eric G.
name: Jang-Condell, Hannah
name: Jeffery, Elizabeth J.
name: Jensen, Eric L. N.
name: Jofré, Emiliano
name: Joner, Michael D.
name: Kar, Aman
name: Kasper, David H.
name: Keten, Burak
name: Kielkopf, John F.
name: Komonjinda, Siramas
name: Kotnik, Cliff
name: Latham, David W.
name: Leuquire, Jacob
name: Lewis, Tiffany R.
name: Logie, Ludwig
name: Lowther, Simon J.
name: MacQueen, Phillip J.
name: Martin, Trevor J.
name: Mawet, Dimitri
name: McLeod, Kim K.
name: Murawski, Gabriel
name: Narita, Norio
name: Nordhausen, Jim
name: Oberst, Thomas E.
name: Odden, Caroline
name: Panka, Peter A.
name: Petrucci, Romina
name: Plavchan, Peter
name: Quinn, Samuel N.
name: Rau, Steve
name: Reed, Phillip A.
name: Relles, Howard
name: Renaud, Joe P.
name: Scarpetta, Gaetano
name: Sorber, Rebecca L.
name: Spencer, Alex D.
name: Spencer, Michelle
name: Stephens, Denise C.
name: Stockdale, Chris
name: Tan, Thiam-Guan
name: Trueblood, Mark
name: Trueblood, Patricia
name: Vanaverbeke, Siegfried
name: Villanueva, Steven
name: Warner, Elizabeth M.
name: West, Mary Lou
name: Yalçınkaya, Selçuk
name: Yeigh, Rex
name: Zambelli, Roberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) project has been conducting a photometric survey for transiting planets orbiting bright stars for over ten years. The KELT images have a pixel scale of ~23"/pixel---very similar to that of NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)---as well as a large point spread function, and the KELT reduction pipeline uses a weighted photometric aperture with radius 3'. At this angular scale, multiple stars are typically blended in the photometric apertures. In order to identify false positives and confirm transiting exoplanets, we have assembled a follow-up network (KELT-FUN) to conduct imaging with higher spatial resolution, cadence, and photometric precision than the KELT telescopes, as well as spectroscopic observations of the candidate host stars. The KELT-FUN team has followed-up over 1,600 planet candidates since 2011, resulting in more than 20 planet discoveries. Excluding ~450 false alarms of non-astrophysical origin (i.e., instrumental noise or systematics), we present an all-sky catalog of the 1,128 bright stars (6
description: Accepted for publication in AJ, 21 pages, 12 figures, 7 tables