I will review the current status of three projects: HATNet, HATSouth and HATPI. The HATNet survey has been operating a network of small, wide-field telescopes for 8 years, leading to the discovery of 43 transiting extrasolar planets. I will highlight some of the discoveries and recent scientific results.
The HATSouth project employs 6 larger telescopes with 24 optical tube assemblies altogether, installed at 3 prime locations (Chile, Namibia, Australia). HATSouth is monitoring 128 square degrees on the sky round-the-clock. Based on our experience from the past 2 years, I will review operations, data flow, follow-up of the planet candidates, and HATS-1b; the first planet discovered by the network.
Finally, HATPI is a future project, with the goal of imaging 1 PI steradian area of the sky at moderately high spatial resolution, high cadence and high photometric precision to search for shallow transits, and also to catch fast transient phenomena.
Received Jan 21, 2013