Eclipsing binary stars with low-mass companions from the WASP survey

WASP的调查发现了数百颗具有低质量恒星伴星(M-矮星)的太阳型恒星，这是其非常成功地搜索凌日系外行星系统的副产品。我们的合作者已经获得了对这些物体的广泛的光谱跟踪。该项目的目的是利用这些数据和其他后续观测来研究低质量恒星的性质。该项目的第一个任务将是开发一种自动方法，利用小波从太阳类型的恒星的光谱中确定其性质，以优化可以从光谱中提取的信息。

The WASP survey has discovered hundreds of solar-type stars with low mass stellar companions (M-dwarfs) as a by-product of its highly successful search for transiting exoplanet systems. Extensive spectroscopic follow-up of these objects has been obtained by our collaborators. The aim of the project is to use these data and other follow-up observations to study the properties of low mass stars. This first task in the project will be to develop an automated method to determine the properties of the solar-type star from its spectrum using wavelets to optimise the information that can be extracted from the spectra.