SuperWASP dispositions and false positive catalogue
Abstract
SuperWASP, the Northern hemisphere WASP observatory, has been observing the skies from La Palma since 2004. In that time, more than 50 planets have been discovered with data contributions from SuperWASP. In the process of validating planets, many false-positive candidates have also been identified. The TESS telescope is set to begin observations of the northern sky in 2019. Similar to the WASP survey, the TESS pixel size is relatively large (13arcsec for WASP and 21arcsec for TESS), making it susceptible to many blended signals and false detections caused principally by grazing and blended stellar eclipsing binary systems. In order to reduce duplication of effort on targets, we present a catalogue of 1041 Northern hemisphere SuperWASP targets that have been rejected as planetary transits through follow-up observation.
Citation
Schanche , N , Cameron , A C , Almenara , J M , Alsubai , K A , Anderson , D R , Armstrong , D J , Barkaoui , K , Barros , S C C , Bochinski , J , Bonomo , A S , Bouchy , F , Brown , D J A , Burdanov , A , Busuttil , R , Deleuil , M , Delrez , L , Faedi , F , Gillon , M , Hay , K , Hebb , L , Hebrard , G , Jehin , E , Kolb , U , Maxted , P F L , Miller , G , Nielsen , L D , Pollacco , D L , Pozuelos , F J , Queloz , D , Relles , H , Smalley , B , Triaud , A H M J , Udry , S , West , R & Wheatley , P J 2019 , ' SuperWASP dispositions and false positive catalogue ' , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol. 488 , no. 4 , pp. 4905-4915 . https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2064
Publication
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0035-8711Type
Journal article
Description
NS acknowledges the support of the National Priorities Research Program (NPRP) grant #X-019-1-006 from the Qatar National Research Fund (a member of Qatar Foundation). ACC acknowledges support from the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) consolidated grant number ST/R000824/1.Collections
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