Core Community Survey · Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey
High-Cadence Seasons
The exoplanet census, via microlensing
What this is
Six seasons of 70.5 days each. This relentless revisit rate is what makes microlensing detections possible, and it produces light curves for enormous numbers of stars as a by-product.
Six fields toward the Galactic centre, imaged every twelve minutes for weeks at a time. Microlensing events are brief and unrepeatable — the cadence is the experiment.
Bands
Optical elements this tier observes through
F1461.464 µmVery wide band for maximum depth — the microlensing workhorse.
No survey products yet. Products for High-Cadence Seasons will list here as MAST publishes them.
Defined parameters
Source
Figures are from the ROTAC survey definition.
ROTAC recommendation · GBTDS implementationMAST archive