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DOI
Pollacco, D. L.; Skillen, I.; Collier Cameron, A.; Christian, D. J.; Hellier, C.; Irwin, J.; Lister, T. A.; Street, R. A.; West, R. G.; Anderson, D.; Clarkson, W. I.; Deeg, H.; Enoch, B.; Evans, A.; Fitzsimmons, A.; Haswell, C. A.; Hodgkin, S.; Horne, K.; Kane, S. R.; Keenan, F. P.; Maxted, P. F. L.; Norton, A. J.; Osborne, J.; Parley, N. R.; Ryans, R. S. I.; Smalley, B.; Wheatley, P. J.; Wilson, D. M.
Bibliographical reference
The Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 118, Issue 848, pp. 1407-1418.
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2006
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Description
The SuperWASP cameras are wide-field imaging systems at the Observatorio
del Roque de los Muchachos on the island of La Palma in the Canary
Islands, and at the Sutherland Station of the South African Astronomical
Observatory. Each instrument has a field of view of some 482
deg2 with an angular scale of 13.7" pixel-1, and
is capable of delivering photometry with accuracy better than 1% for
objects having V~7.0-11.5. Lower quality data for objects brighter than
V~15.0 are stored in the project archive. The systems, while designed to
monitor fields with high cadence, are capable of surveying the entire
visible sky every 40 minutes. Depending on the observational strategy,
the data rate can be up to 100 Gbytes per night. We have produced a
robust, largely automatic reduction pipeline and advanced archive, which
are used to serve the data products to the consortium members. The main
science aim of these systems is to search for bright transiting
exoplanet systems suitable for spectroscopic follow-up observations. The
first 6 month season of SuperWASP-North observations produced light
curves of ~6.7 million objects with 12.9 billion data points.