Current Status of the SuperWASP Project
Abstract
We present the current status of the SuperWASP project, a Wide Angle Search for Planets. SuperWASP consists of up to 8 individual cameras using ultra-wide field lenses backed by high-quality passively cooled CCDs. Each camera covers 7.8 x 7.8 sq degrees of sky, for nearly 500 sq degrees of sky coverage. SuperWASP I, located in LaPalma, is currently operational with 5 cameras and is conducting a photometric survey of a large numbers of stars in the magnitude range ~7 to 15. The collaboration has developed a custom-built reduction pipeline and aims to achieve better than 1 percent photometric precision. The pipeline will also produce well sampled light curves for all the stars in each field which will be used to detect: planetary transits, optical transients, and track Near-Earth Objects. Status of current observations, and expected rates of extrasolar planetary detections will be presented. The consortium members, institutions, and further details can be found on the web site at: http://www.superwasp.org.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0411019,
title = {Current Status of the SuperWASP Project},
author = {D. J. Christian and D. L. Pollacco and W. I. Clarkson and A. Collier Cameron and N. Evans and A. Fitzsimmons and C. A. Haswell and C. Hellier and S. T. Hodgkin and K. Horne and S. R. Kane and F. P. Keenan and T. A. Lister and A. J. Norton and R. Ryans and I. Skillen and R. A. Street and R. G. West and P. J. Wheatley},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0411019},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
3 pages, 2 figures, submitted to the Proceedings of the 13th Cool Stars Workshop, Ed. F. Favata, ESA-SP