Open AccessErratum: The Super WASP wide‐field exoplanetary transit survey: candidates from fields 23 h < RA < 03 h
Author(s) -
Christian D. J.,
Pollacco D. L.,
Skillen I.,
Street R. A.,
Keenan F. P.,
Clarkson W. I.,
Collier Cameron A.,
Kane S. R.,
Lister T. A.,
West R. G.,
Enoch B.,
Evans A.,
Fitzsimmons A.,
Haswell C. A.,
Hellier C.,
Hodgkin S. T.,
Horne K.,
Irwin J.,
Norton A. J.,
Osborne J.,
Ryans R.,
Wheatley P. J.,
Wilson D.M.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
monthly notices of the royal astronomical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.058
H-Index - 383
eISSN - 1365-2966
pISSN - 0035-8711
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11405.x
Subject(s) - physics , transit (satellite) , field (mathematics) , astronomy , astrophysics , transport engineering , public transport , mathematics , pure mathematics , engineering
Photometric transit surveys promise to complement the currently known sampleof extra-solar planets by providing additional information on the planets andespecially their radii. Here we present extra-solar planet (ESP) candidatesfrom one such survey called, the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) obtainedwith the SuperWASP wide-field imaging system. Observations were taken withSuperWASP-North located in La Palma during the April to October 2004 observingseason. The data cover fields between 23hr and 03hr in RA at declinations above+12. This amounts to over $\approx$400,000 stars with V magnitudes 8 to 13.5.For the stars brighter than 12.5, we achieve better than 1 percent photometricprecision. Here we present 41 sources with low amplitude variability between$\approx$ 1 and 10 mmag, from which we select 12 with periods between 1.2 and4.4 days as the most promising extrasolar planet candidates. We discuss theproperties of these ESP candidates, the expected fraction of transits recoveredfor our sample, and implications for the frequency and detection ofhot-Jupiters.Comment: 13 pages, 18 figures, 3 tables; accepted by MNRAS (Because of size constraints lower resolution light curve figures have been submitted here, please see the journal version for higher resolution figures