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SuperWASP
WASP or Wide Angle Search for Planets is an international consortium of several academic organisation performing an ultra-wide angle search for extrasolar planets using transit photometry. The array of robotic telescopes aims to survery the entire sky, simultaneously monitoring many thousands of stars at an apparent visual magnitude from about 7 to 13.
SuperWASP is the detection program composed of the Isaac Newton Group, IAC and six universities from the United Kingdom. The two continuously operating, robotic observatories cover the Northern and Southern Hemisphere, respectively. SuperWASP-North is located at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on the island of La Palma in the Canary Island, Spain, while SuperWASP-South is located at the site of the South African Astronomical Observatory, near Sutherland, South Africa. Both observatories use eight wide-angle cameras that simultaneously monitor the sky for planetary transit events and allow the monitoring of millions of stars simultaneously, enabling the detection of rare transit events.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SuperWASP Survey Information )〕
Instruments used for follow-up characterization employing doppler spectroscopy to determine the exoplanet's mass include the HARPS spectrograph of ESO's 3.6-metre telescope as well as the Swiss Euler Telescope, both located at La Silla Observatory, Chile.〔http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010A%26A...517L...1Q〕 WASP's design has also been adopted by the Next-Generation Transit Survey. As of 2015, the ''Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia'' data base contains a total of 1,952 extrasolar planets of which 106 were discoveries by WASP.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia )〕
== Equipment ==
WASP consists of two robotic observatories; SuperWASP-North at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on the island of La Palma in the Canaries and WASP-South at the South African Astronomical Observatory, South Africa. Each observatory consists of an array of eight Canon 200 mm f1.8 lenses backed by high quality 2048 x 2048 science grade CCDs, the model used is the iKon-L〔http://www.superwasp.org/technical.htm〕 manufactured by Andor Technology.〔http://www.andor.com〕 The telescopes are mounted on an equatorial telescope mount built by Optical Mechanics, Inc..〔http://www.opticalmechanics.com/news/index.html〕 The large field of view of the Canon lenses gives each observatory a massive sky coverage of 490 square degrees per pointing.〔(Current status of the SuperWASP project ), D. J. Christian et al.〕
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