The WASP Project and the SuperWASP Cameras

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

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The WASP Project and the SuperWASP Cameras

D L Pollacco, I Skillen, Andrew Collier Cameron, D J Christian, C Hellier, J Irwin, T A Lister, R A Street, R G West, D Anderson, W I Clarkson, H Deeg, B Enoch, A Evans, A Fitzsimmons, C A Haswell, S Hodgkin, Keith Douglas Horne, S R Kane, F P KeenanP F L Maxted, A J Norton, J Osborne, N R Parley, R S I Ryans, B Smalley, P J Wheatley, D M Wilson

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The SuperWASP cameras are wide- field imaging systems at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, and at the Sutherland Station of the South African Astronomical Observatory. Each instrument has a field of view of some 482 deg(2) with an angular scale of 13".7 pixel(-1), and is capable of delivering photometry with accuracy better than 1% for objects having. V similar to 7.0 -11.5. Lower quality data for objects brighter than are stored in the project archive. The systems, while designed to monitor fields with high cadence, are capable of surveying the entire visible sky every 40 minutes. Depending on the observational strategy, the data rate can be up to 100 Gbytes per night. We have produced a robust, largely automatic reduction pipeline and advanced archive, which are used to serve the data products to the consortium members. The main science aim of these systems is to search for bright transiting exoplanet systems suitable for spectroscopic follow- up observations. The first 6 month season of SuperWASP-North observations produced light curves of similar to 6.7 million objects with 12.9 billion data points.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1407-1418
Number of pages	12
Journal	Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Volume	118
Issue number	848
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1086/508556
Publication status	Published - Oct 2006

Keywords

Planets prototype wasp0
Wide-angle search
Gravitational lensing experiment
Luminosity object transits
Pegasus field
Galactic disk
2001 campaign
Star
Photmetry
Prospects

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Pollacco, D. L., Skillen, I., Cameron, A. C., Christian, D. J., Hellier, C., Irwin, J., Lister, T. A., Street, R. A., West, R. G., Anderson, D., Clarkson, W. I., Deeg, H., Enoch, B., Evans, A., Fitzsimmons, A., Haswell, C. A., Hodgkin, S., Horne, K. D., Kane, S. R., ... Wilson, D. M. (2006). The WASP Project and the SuperWASP Cameras. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 118(848), 1407-1418. https://doi.org/10.1086/508556

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