Recent Results from the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) Prototype

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2002-09-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0209188v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 6 figures, To appear in the ASP Conference Series: "Scientific Frontiers in Research on Extrasolar Planets", eds. D.

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WASP0 is a prototype for what is intended to become a collection of WASPs whose primary aim is to detect transiting extra-solar planets across the face of their parent star. The WASP0 instrument is a wide-field (9-degree) 6.3cm aperture F/2.8 Apogee 10 CCD camera (2Kx2K chip, 16-arcsec pixels). The camera is mounted piggy-back on a commercial 10-inch Meade telescope. We present some recent results from the WASP camera, including observations from La Palma of the known transiting planet around HD 209458 and preliminary analysis of other stars located in the same field. We also outline further problems which restrict the ability to achieve photon limited precision with a wide-field commercial CCD.

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