WASP
(Wide Angle Search for Planets, Wide Area Search for Planets)
(multi-university initiative to locate transiting planets)
WASP (Wide Angle Search for Planets, sometimes cited
as Wide Area Search for Planets)
is a project of a number of universities to discover
extra-solar planets using the transit method.
A pilot operation began in 1999 using a robotic telescope.
Later improvements have led to two sites in the
two hemispheres, each with an array of telescopes,
the improved version called SuperWASP.
Well over a hundred planets have been discovered,
some of high research interest.
Note the WASP prefix may refer to a discovery
before or after the SuperWASP improvements.
(consortium,exoplanets,survey,distributed,all sky)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Angle_Search_for_Planets
https://wasp-planets.net/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005A%26G....46a..19P/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006MNRAS.372.1117C/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009IAUS..253...29C/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010A%26A...520L..10B/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014CoSka..43..500S/abstract
Prefix | Example | | |
WASP | WASP-17 | | |
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Referenced by pages:
SuperWASP (SWASP)
transit method
WASP-12b
WASP-33b
WASP-43b
WASP-67b
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