Details on Acronym: Qatar | |
| Qatar | (Qatar) |
| Write: | <<Qatar NNNa>> |
| N: | 100 |
| Object: | * + Poss. Planet (SIMBAD class: Unknown = Object of Unknown Nature) |
| Note: | The Qatar Exoplanet Survey is a wide-field photometric variability survey with the primary goal of detecting exoplanetary transit candidates. We propose to follow conventions already established by other wide-field searches for transiting exoplanets, by assigning short names of the form "Qatar <running-number>" to stars that are detected as transiting-planet hosts, after radial-velocity followup and other confirmatory tests. |
| Auth.: | Andrew Collier Cameron <email=> School of Physics & Astronomy, University of St Andrews, Scotland KY16 9SS |
| Origin | of the Acronym: p = Pre-registered to IAU Comm.5 |