The Next Generation Transit Survey

The Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) is a ground-based exoplanet survey designed to detect and study Neptune and super-Earth sized planets around bright host stars using the transit method. The project is described by Wheatley et al. (2018, MNRAS, 475, 4476) and the project website is http://ngtransits.org.下一代凌星巡天（Next-Generation Transit Survey, NGTS）是一项地面系外行星巡天项目，旨在通过凌星法探测并研究明亮宿主恒星周围的海王星级行星与超级地球。该项目的相关研究成果由Wheatley等人于2018年发表在《皇家天文学会月报》（Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society，简称MNRAS）第475卷第4476页，项目官方网站为http://ngtransits.org。