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