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The WASP Project and SuperWASP Camera |
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| Authors: | D. Pollacco I. Skillen A. Cameron D. Christian J. Irwin T. Lister R. Street R. West W. Clarkson N. Evans A. Fitzsimmons C. Haswell C. Hellier S. Hodgkin K. Horne B. Jones S. Kane F. Keenan A. Norton J. Osborne R. Ryans P. Wheatley |
| Affiliation: | (1) WFS Unit, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA, UK;(2) Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, Apartado de correos 321, E-38700 Santa Cruz de La Palma, Tenerife, Spain;(3) Astrophysics Group, School of Chemistry and Physics, Keele University, Staffs, ST5 5BG, UK;(4) Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK;(5) Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK;(6) Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Queen’s University of Belfast, University Road, Belfast, BT7 1NN, UK;(7) School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews, KY16 9SS, UK |
| Abstract: | The WASP project and infrastructure supporting the SuperWASP Facility are described. As the instrument, reduction pipeline and archive system are now fully operative we expect the system to have a major impact in the discovery of bright exo-planet candidates as well in more general variable star projects. |
| Keywords: | Binaries Eclipsing: extrasolar planets Transits |
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