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 Station of the South African Astronomical
Observatory. Each instrument has a field of view of some ~482 square degrees
with an angular scale of 13.7 arcsec per pixel, 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 100GB 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 exo-planets
systems suitable for spectroscopic followup observations. The first 6 month
season of SuperWASP-North observations produced lightcurves of ~6.7 million
objects with 12.9 billion data points.Comment: 42 pages, 2 plates, 5 figures PASP in pres
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 (www.wasp.le.ac.uk/public/) 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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