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WASP-12b: The hottest transiting planet yet discovered
L. Hebb, A. Collier-Cameron, B. Loeillet +15
We report on the discovery of WASP-12b, a new transiting extrasolar planet with and . The planet and host star propertie…
Updated parameters for the transiting exoplanet WASP-3b using RISE, a new fast camera for the Liverpool Telescope
N. P. Gibson, D. Pollacco, E. K. Simpson +9
Some of the first results are reported from RISE - a new fast camera mounted on the Liverpool Telescope primarily designed to obtain high time resolution light curves of transiting…
The sub-Jupiter mass transiting exoplanet WASP-11b
R. G. West, A. Collier Cameron, L. Hebb +25
We report the discovery of a sub-Jupiter mass exoplanet transiting a magnitude V=11.7 host star 1SWASP J030928.54+304024.7. A simultaneous fit to the transit photometry and radial-…
Searching for transit timing variations in transiting exoplanet systems
Marie Hrudková, Ian Skillen, Chris Benn +5
Searching for transit timing variations in the known transiting exoplanet systems can reveal the presence of other bodies in the system. Here we report such searches for two transi…
WASP-10b: a 3M_J, gas-giant planet transiting a late-type K star
D. J. Christian, N. P. Gibson, E. K. Simpson +37
We report the discovery of WASP-10b, a new transiting extrasolar planet (ESP) discovered by the WASP Consortium and confirmed using NOT FIES and SOPHIE radial velocity data. A 3.09…
WASP-14b: 7.3 Mj transiting planet in an eccentric orbit
Y. C. Joshi, D. Pollacco, A. Collier Cameron +38
We report the discovery of a 7.3 Mjup exoplanet WASP-14b, one of the most massive transiting exoplanets observed to date. The planet orbits the tenth-magnitude F5V star USNO-B1 111…
WASP-7: The brightest transiting-exoplanet system in the Southern hemisphere
Coel Hellier, D. R. Anderson, M. Gillon +28
We report that a Jupiter-mass planet, WASP-7b, transits the V = 9.5 star HD197286 every 4.95 d. This is the brightest discovery from the WASP-South transit survey and the brightest…
Early spectroscopic identification of SN 2008D
D. Malesani, J. P. U. Fynbo, J. Hjorth +27
SN 2008D was discovered while following up an unusually bright X-ray transient in the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 2770. We present early optical spectra (obtained 1.75 days after the…
WASP-5b: a dense, very-hot Jupiter transiting a 12th-mag Southern-hemisphere star
D. R. Anderson, M. Gillon, C. Hellier +28
We report the discovery of WASP-5b, a Jupiter-mass planet orbiting a 12th-mag G-type star in the Southern hemisphere. The 1.6-d orbital period places WASP-5b in the class of very-h…
WASP-4b: a 12th-magnitude transiting hot-Jupiter in the Southern hemisphere
D. M. Wilson, M. Gillon, C. Hellier +29
We report the discovery of WASP-4b, a large transiting gas-giant planet with an orbital period of 1.34 days. This is the first planet to be discovered by the SuperWASP-South observ…
Initial Data Release from the INT Photometric H-alpha Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane (IPHAS)
E. A. Gonzalez-Solares, N. A. Walton, R. Greimel +47
The INT/WFC Photometric H-alpha Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane (IPHAS) is an imaging survey being carried out in H-alpha, r' and i' filters, with the Wide Field Camera (WFC)…
SuperWASP-N Extra-solar Planet Candidates from Fields 06hr < RA < 16hr
S. R. Kane, W. I. Clarkson, R. G. West +21
The Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) survey currently operates two installations, designated SuperWASP-N and SuperWASP-S, located in the northern and southern hemispheres respe…
WASP-3b: a strongly-irradiated transiting gas-giant planet
D. Pollacco, I. Skillen, A. Collier Cameron +43
We report the discovery of WASP-3b, the third transiting exoplanet to be discovered by the WASP and SOPHIE collaboration. WASP-3b transits its host star USNO-B1.0 1256-0285133 ever…
A deeper search for the progenitor of the Type Ic Supernova 2002ap
R. M. Crockett, S. J. Smartt, J. J. Eldridge +6
(Abridged) We present a search for the progenitor star of the Type Ic Supernova 2002ap in deep, high quality pre-explosion observations taken with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescop…
Efficient identification of exoplanetary transit candidates from SuperWASP light curves
A. Collier Cameron, D. M. Wilson, R. G. West +29
Transiting extrasolar planets constitute only a small fraction of the range of stellar systems found to display periodic, shallow dimmings in wide-field surveys employing small-ape…
SuperWASP-North Extrasolar Planet Candidates. Candidates from Fields 17hr < RA < 18hr
T. A. Lister, R. G. West, D. M. Wilson +22
We have performed photometric observations of nearly 7 million stars with 8 < V < 15 with the SuperWASP-North instrument from La Palma between 2004 May-September. Fields in the RA…
SuperWASP-N Extra-solar Planet Candidates Between 18hr < RA < 21hr
R. A. Street, D. J. Christian, W. I. Clarkson +21
The SuperWASP-I instrument observed 6.7 million stars between 8-15 mag from La Palma during the 2004 May-September season. Our transit-hunting algorithm selected 11,626 objects fro…
New periodic variable stars coincident with ROSAT sources discovered using SuperWASP
A. J. Norton, P. J. Wheatley, R. G. West +17
We present optical lightcurves of 428 periodic variable stars coincident with ROSAT X-ray sources, detected using the first run of the SuperWASP photometric survey. Only 68 of thes…
The colour of noise in SuperWASP data and the implications for finding extra-solar planets
A. M. S. Smith, A. Collier Cameron, D. J. Christian +19
A recent study demonstrated that there is significant covariance structure in the noise on data from ground-based photometric surveys designed to detect transiting extrasolar plane…
A fast hybrid algorithm for exoplanetary transit searches
A. Collier Cameron, D. Pollacco, R. A. Street +22
We present a fast and efficient hybrid algorithm for selecting exoplanetary candidates from wide-field transit surveys. Our method is based on the widely-used SysRem and Box Least-…
WASP-1b and WASP-2b: Two new transiting exoplanets detected with SuperWASP and SOPHIE
A. Collier Cameron, F. Bouchy, G. Hebrard +36
We have detected low-amplitude radial-velocity variations in two stars, USNO-B1.0 1219-0005465 (GSC 02265-00107 = WASP-1) and USNO-B1.0 0964-0543604 (GSC 00522-01199 = WASP-2). Bot…
The impact of correlated noise on SuperWASP detection rates for transiting extra-solar planets
A. M. S. Smith, A. Collier Cameron, D. J. Christian +19
We present a model of the stellar populations in the fields observed by one of the SuperWASP-N cameras in the 2004 observing season. We use the Besancon Galactic model to define th…
The WASP Project and the SuperWASP Cameras
D. L. Pollacco, I. Skillen, A. Collier Cameron +25
The SuperWASP Cameras are wide-field imaging systems sited at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, and the Sutherland Statio…
The SuperWASP wide-field exoplanetary transit survey: Candidates from Fields 23hr < RA < 03hr
D. J. Christian, D. L. Pollacco, I. Skillen +20
Photometric transit surveys promise to complement the currently known sample of extra-solar planets by providing additional information on the planets and especially their radii. H…