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The first WASP public data release

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Butters, O. W., West, R. G., Anderson, D. R., Collier Cameron, A., Clarkson, W. I., Enoch, B., Haswell, C. A., Hellier, C. +12 more·2010·Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The WASP (wide angle search for planets) project is an exoplanet transit survey that has been automatically taking wide field images since 2004. Two instruments, one in La Palma and the other in South Africa, continually monitor the night sky, building up light curves of millions of unique objects. These light curves are used to search for the characteristics of exoplanetary transits. This first public data release (DR1) of the WASP archive makes available all the light curve data and images from 2004 up to 2008 in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres. A web interface () to the data allows easy access over the Internet. The data set contains 3 631 972 raw images and 17 970 937 light curves. In total the light curves have 119 930 299 362 data points available between them.

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  • The light curve of 1SWASP J140747.93-394542.6 underwent a complex series of deep eclipses that lasted 56 days, centered on 2007 April.

    “The light curve of 1SWASP J140747.93-394542.6,a ∼16 Myr old star in the Sco-Cen OB association, underwent a complex series of deep eclipses that lasted 56 days, centered on 2007 April.”

    From MODELING GIANT EXTRASOLAR RING SYSTEMS IN ECLIPSE AND THE CASE OF J1407B: SCULPTING BY EXOMOONS? (2015) · cites this paper as Butters et al. 2010

    The Abstract and §4.1 describe the WASP light-curve archive, and §3 confirms that its southern data cover 2007. However, searches for the star’s identifier and for the 56-day April 2007 eclipses found no passage describing this star or event in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.76)

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Butters, O. W., West, R. G., Anderson, D. R., Collier Cameron, A., Clarkson, W. I., Enoch, B., Haswell, C. A., Hellier, C., Horne, K., Joshi, Y., Kane, S. R., Lister, T. A., Maxted, P. F. L., Parley, N., Pollacco, D., Smalley, B., Street, R. A., Todd, I., Wheatley, P. J., & Wilson, D. M.
Affiliations
  • University of Leicester (GB)
  • Keele University (GB)
  • Space Telescope Science Institute (US)
  • University of St Andrews (GB)
  • The Open University (GB)
  • Queen's University Belfast (GB)
  • California Institute of Technology (US)
  • Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (US)
  • University of Warwick (GB)
Venue
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Publisher
EDP Sciences
Published
2010-09
Volume
520
Pages
L10
ISSN
  • 0004-6361 (ISSN-L)
  • 1432-0746
OpenAlex
W1992218070
Cited by
368
References
8
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FWCI
6.24
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Astronomy and Astrophysics (publishedVersion)
  • Open Research Online - ORO (The Open University) (acceptedVersion)
  • Warwick Research Archive Portal (University of Warwick) (acceptedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion)
  • CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion)
  • Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • Leicester Research Archive (University of Leicester) (submittedVersion)
  • Research Portal (Queen's University Belfast) (submittedVersion)
  • Bristol Research (University of Bristol) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
  • Queen's University Belfast
  • Queen's University
  • Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/G002533/1, ST/F002599/1, PP/F000081/1, ST/I002308/1, PP/F000065/1, PP/F000057/1, PP/F000073/1, PP/D000955/1, ST/G002355/1, PP/D000963/1, ST/G001987/1)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Instrumentation › Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › History and Developments in Astronomy
Keywords
exoplanet transit survey, exoplanet transits, light curves, wide-field imaging, transit search

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