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The '''XO Telescope''' is a ] located on the 3,054 m summit of ] on ], ], formed by a pair of 200&nbsp;mm ]es. It is used by the ] to detect ] using the ]. It is similar to the ] survey telescope. The construction of the one-of-a-kind telescope cost $60,000 for the hardware, and much more than that for the associated software.<ref name="McCullough2005"/>


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== Planets discovered ==
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The ''XO telescope'' has discovered five objects so far, four are ] planets and one, ], is probably a ]. All were discovered using the ].
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| ]<ref name="McCullough2006"/> || ] || {{RA|16|02|12}} || {{DEC|+28|10|11}} || 11.319 || 600 || G1V
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| ]<ref name="Burke2007"/> || ] || {{RA|07|48|07}} || {{DEC|+50|13|33}} || 11.25 || 486 || K0V
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| ]<ref name="Krull2008"/> || ] || {{RA|04|21|53}} || {{DEC|+57|49|01}} || 9.91 || 850 || F5V
| ] || 11.79 || 1.217 || 3.1915239 || 0.0454 || 0.26 || 84.2 || 2007
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| ]<ref name="McCullough2008"/> || ] || {{RA|07|21|33.1657}} || {{DEC|+58|16|05.005}} || 10.78 || 956 || F5V
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| ]<ref name="Burke2008"/> || ] || {{RA|07|46|51.959}} || {{DEC|+39|05|40.47}} || 12.1 || 881 || G8V
| ] || 1.15 || 1.15 || 4.187732 || 0.0508 || 0.0029 || 86.8 || 2008
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== See also ==
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A subset of XO light curves are available at the ].

==Other Ground Transit Surveys==
* ] or ''TrES''
* ] or ''HAT''

== References ==
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<ref name="Burke2007"> {{cite journal | title=XO-2b: Transiting Hot Jupiter in a Metal-rich Common Proper Motion Binary | url=http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/671/2/2115/fulltext/ | last1=Burke | first1=Christopher J. | last2=McCullough | first2=P. R. | last3=Valenti | first3=Jeff A. | last4=Johns‐krull | first4=Christopher M. | last5=Janes | first5=Kenneth A. | last6=Heasley | first6=J. N. | last7=Summers | first7=F. J. | last8=Stys | first8=J. E. | last9=Bissinger | first9=R. | display-authors=1 | journal=The Astrophysical Journal | year=2007 | volume=671 | issue=2 | pages=2115–2128 | arxiv=0705.0003 | bibcode=2007ApJ...671.2115B | doi=10.1086/523087 }}</ref>

<ref name="Burke2008"> {{cite journal | title=XO-5b: A Transiting Jupiter-sized Planet with a 4 day Period | url=http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/686/2/1331/fulltext/ | last1=Burke | first1=Christopher J. | last2=McCullough | first2=P. R. | last3=Valenti | first3=Jeff A. | last4=Long | first4=Doug | last5=Johns‐Krull | first5=Christopher M. | last6=Machalek | first6=P. | last7=Janes | first7=Kenneth A. | last8=Taylor | first8=B. | last9=Fleenor | first9=Michael L. | display-authors=1 | journal=The Astrophysical Journal | year=2008 | volume=686 | issue=2 | pages=1331–1340 | arxiv=0805.2399 | bibcode=2008ApJ...686.1331B | doi=10.1086/591497 }}</ref>

<ref name="Krull2008"> {{cite journal | title=XO-3b: A Massive Planet in an Eccentric Orbit Transiting an F5V Star | url=http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/677/1/657/fulltext | last1=Johns-Krull | first1=Christopher M. | last2=McCullough | first2=Peter R. | last3=Burke | first3=Christopher J. | last4=Valenti | first4=Jeff A. | last5=Janes | first5=K. A. | last6=Heasley | first6=J. N. | last7=Prato | first7=L. | last8=Bissinger | first8=R. | last9=Fleenor | first9=M. | display-authors=1 | journal=The Astrophysical Journal | year=2008 | volume=677 | issue=1 | pages=657–670 | arxiv=0712.4283 | bibcode=2008ApJ...677..657J | doi=10.1086/528950 }}</ref>

<ref name="McCullough2005"> {{cite journal | title=The XO Project: Searching for Transiting Extrasolar Planet Candidates | url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/432024 | last1=McCullough | first1=P. R. | last2=Stys | first2=J. E. | last3=Valenti | first3=J. A. | last4=Fleming | first4=S. W. | last5=Janes | first5=K. A. | last6=Heasley | first6=J. N. | display-authors=1 | journal=Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific | year=2005 | volume=117 | issue=834 | pages=783–795 | arxiv=astro-ph/0505560 | bibcode=2005PASP..117..783M | doi=10.1086/432024 }}</ref>

<ref name="McCullough2006"> {{cite journal | title=A Transiting Planet of a Sun-like Star | url=http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/648/2/1228/fulltext/ | last1=McCullough | first1=P. R. | last2=Stys | first2=J. E. | last3=Valenti | first3=Jeff A. | last4=Johns‐krull | first4=C. M. | last5=Janes | first5=K. A. | last6=Heasley | first6=J. N. | last7=Bye | first7=B. A. | last8=Dodd | first8=C. | last9=Fleming | first9=S. W. | display-authors=1 | journal=The Astrophysical Journal | year=2006 | volume=648 | issue=2 | pages=1228–1238 | arxiv=astro-ph/0605414 | bibcode=2006ApJ...648.1228M | doi=10.1086/505651 }}</ref>

<ref name="McCullough2008"> {{cite journal | title=XO-4b: An Extrasolar Planet Transiting an F5V Star | last1=McCullough | first1=P. R. | last2=Burke | first2=Christopher J. | last3=Valenti | first3=Jeff A. | last4=Long | first4=Doug | last5=Johns-Krull | first5=Christopher M. | last6=Machalek | first6=P. | last7=Janes | first7=K. A. | last8=Taylor | first8=B. | last9=Gregorio | first9=J. | display-authors=1 | year=2008 | arxiv=0805.2921 | bibcode=2008arXiv0805.2921M }}</ref>

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== External links ==
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