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The Next Generation Transit Survey - Prototyping Phase
James McCormac, Don Pollacco, Peter Wheatley +16
We present the prototype telescope for the Next Generation Transit Survey, which was built in the UK in 2008/09 and tested on La Palma in the Canary Islands in 2010. The goals for…
A Search for Photometric Variability Towards M71 with the Near-Infrared Transiting ExoplanetS Telescope
J. McCormac, I. Skillen, D. Pollacco +5
We present the results of a high-cadence photometric survey of an field centred on the globular cluster M71, with the Near-Infrared Transiting ExoplanetS Telescope.…
DONUTS: A science frame autoguiding algorithm with sub-pixel precision, capable of guiding on defocused stars
J. McCormac, D. Pollacco, I. Skillen +3
We present the DONUTS autoguiding algorithm, designed to fix stellar positions at the sub-pixel level for high-cadence time-series photometry, which is also capable of autoguiding…
Period and period change measurements for 143 SuperWASP eclipsing binary candidates near the short-period limit and discovery of a doubly eclipsing quadruple system
M. E. Lohr, A. J. Norton, U. C. Kolb +3
Building on previous work, a new search of the SuperWASP archive was carried out to identify eclipsing binary systems near the short-period limit. 143 candidate objects were detect…
WASP-44b, WASP-45b and WASP-46b: three short-period, transiting extrasolar planets
D. R. Anderson, A. Collier Cameron, M. Gillon +14
We report the discovery of three extrasolar planets that transit their moderately bright (Vmag = 12-13) host stars. WASP-44b is a 0.89-MJup planet in a 2.42-day orbit around a G8V…
Stellar variability on time-scales of minutes: results from the first 5 years of the Rapid Temporal Survey (RATS)
Thomas Barclay, Gavin Ramsay, Pasi Hakala +4
The Rapid Temporal Survey (RATS) explores the faint, variable sky. Our observations search a parameter space which, until now, has never been exploited from the ground. Our strateg…