Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-08-22
Publ.Astron.Soc.Pac.118:1407-1418,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
42 pages, 2 plates, 5 figures PASP in press
Scientific paper
10.1086/508556
The SuperWASP Cameras are wide-field imaging systems sited at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, and the Sutherland Station of the South African Astronomical Observatory. Each instrument has a field of view of some ~482 square degrees with an angular scale of 13.7 arcsec per pixel, and is capable of delivering photometry with accuracy better than 1% for objects having V ~ 7.0 - 11.5. Lower quality data for objects brighter than V ~15.0 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 100GB 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 exo-planets systems suitable for spectroscopic followup observations. The first 6 month season of SuperWASP-North observations produced lightcurves of ~6.7 million objects with 12.9 billion data points.
Anderson Daniel
Christian Damian Joseph
Clarkson William I.
Collier Cameron Andrew
Deeg Hans
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