The SuperWASP wide-field exoplanetary transit survey: candidates from fields 23 h <RA <03 h

D J Christian; D L Pollacco; I Skillen; R A Street; F P Keenan; W I Clarkson; Andrew Collier Cameron; S R Kane; T A Lister; R G West; B Enoch; A Evans; A Fitzsimmons; C A Haswell; C Hellier; S T Hodgkin; Keith Douglas Horne; J Irwin; A J Norton; J Osborne; R Ryans; P J Wheatley; D M Wilson

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The SuperWASP wide-field exoplanetary transit survey: candidates from fields 23 h <RA <03 h

D J Christian, D L Pollacco, I Skillen, R A Street, F P Keenan, W I Clarkson, Andrew Collier Cameron, S R Kane, T A Lister, R G West, B Enoch, A Evans, A Fitzsimmons, C A Haswell, C Hellier, S T Hodgkin, Keith Douglas Horne, J Irwin, A J Norton, J OsborneR Ryans, P J Wheatley, D M Wilson

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Photometric transit surveys promise to complement the currently known sample of extra-solar planets (ESPs) by providing additional information on the planets and especially their radii. Here, we present ESP candidates from one such survey called, the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) obtained with the SuperWASP wide-field imaging system. Observations were taken with SuperWASP North located in La Palma during the 2004 April to October observing season. The data cover fields between 23 and 03 h in RA at declinations above +12. This amounts to over approximate to 400 000 stars with V magnitudes 8-13.5. For the stars brighter than 12.5, we achieve better than 1 per cent photometric precision. Here, we present 41 sources with low-amplitude variability between approximate to 1 and 10 mmag, from which we select 12 with periods between 1.2 and 4.4 d as the most promising ESP candidates. We discuss the properties of these ESP candidates, the expected fraction of transits recovered for our sample and implications for the frequency and detection of hot-Jupiters.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1117-1128
Number of pages	12
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume	372
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10913.x
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2006

Keywords

methods : data analysis
planetary systems formation
stars : variables : other
CLUSTERS EXTENSIVE SEARCH
PLANETS PROTOTYPE WASP0
EXTRASOLAR GIANT PLANET
HOT JUPITERS
DETECTION ALGORITHMS
BETA-PICTORIS
LIGHT CURVES
ANGLE SEARCH
STAR
METALLICITY

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Christian, D. J., Pollacco, D. L., Skillen, I., Street, R. A., Keenan, F. P., Clarkson, W. I., Cameron, A. C., Kane, S. R., Lister, T. A., West, R. G., Enoch, B., Evans, A., Fitzsimmons, A., Haswell, C. A., Hellier, C., Hodgkin, S. T., Horne, K. D., Irwin, J., Norton, A. J., ... Wilson, D. M. (2006). The SuperWASP wide-field exoplanetary transit survey: candidates from fields 23 h <RA <03 h. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 372(3), 1117-1128. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10913.x

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The SuperWASP wide-field exoplanetary transit survey: candidates from fields 23 h <RA <03 h

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