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(2006) The WASP project in the era of robotic telescope networks. Astronomische Nachrichten, Volume 327 (Number 8). pp. 800-802. doi:10.1002/asna.200610682 ISSN 0004-6337.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asna.200610682
Abstract
We present the current status of the WASP project, a pair of wide angle photometric telescopes, individually called Super-WASP. 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/. (© 2006 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Physics | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Astronomische Nachrichten | ||||
| Publisher: | Wiley - V C H Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA | ||||
| ISSN: | 0004-6337 | ||||
| Official Date: | September 2006 | ||||
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| Volume: | Volume 327 | ||||
| Number: | Number 8 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 800-802 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1002/asna.200610682 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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