The WASP project in the era of robotic telescope networks

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Sep 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006an....327..800c&link_type=abstract

Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol.327, Issue 8, p.800

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Techniques: Photometric, Instrumentation: Photometers, Stars: Planetary Systems

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We present the current status of the WASP project, a pair of wide angle photometric telescopes, individually called SuperWASP. SuperWASP-I is located in La Palma, and SuperWASP-II at Sutherland in South Africa. SW-I began operations in April 2004. SW-II is expected to be operational in early 2006. Each SuperWASP instrument consists of up to 8 individual cameras using ultra-wide field lenses backed by high-quality passively cooled CCDs. Each camera covers 7.8×7.8 sq degrees of sky, for nearly 500 sq degrees of total sky coverage. One of the current aims of the WASP project is the search for extra-solar planet transits with a focus on brighter stars in the magnitude range ˜8 to 13. Additionally, WASP will search for optical transients, track Near-Earth Objects, and study many types of variable stars and extragalactic objects. The collaboration has developed a custom-built reduction pipeline that achieves better than 1 percent photometric precision. We discuss future goals, which include: nightly on-mountain reductions that could be used to automatically drive alerts via a small robotic telescope network, and possible roles of the WASP telescopes as providers in such a network. Additional technical details of the telescopes, data reduction, and consortium members and institutions can be found on the web site at: http://www.superwasp.org/.

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