Project support for the Wide Angle Search for Planets

对广角行星搜索的项目支持

• 批准号: PP/F000081/1
• 负责人: Richard West
• 金额: $ 21.24万
• 依托单位: University of Leicester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2008 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=PP%2FF000081%2F1
• 关键词: Project; support; Wide; Angle; Search

Questions such as ``how many stars have planets around them?'' and ``how many habitable planets are there?'' interest both astronomers and everyone else. To answer them we need to find planets that can be studied in detail, seeking to understand the processes by which planets form and solar systems evolve. Of the two hundred planets that astronomers have found orbiting other stars we can learn most about those that transit in front of their star. We can measure how big they are, how heavy they are, and thus deduce their density and what they are made of. And by looking at how their atmosphere absorbs the light of their star we can discover the composition of their atmospheres. The WASP project aims to monitor 40 million of the brightest stars, looking for the tiny dips in their light caused by a planet passing in front of them. We will survey the sky for the transiting planets that are relatively close to Earth, which we can study in detail to enable us to understand how planetary systems form and evolve. The next generation of space missions, such as the James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to Hubble, will prioritize the study of planets around other stars. The WASP project will find the planets that will make the best and most interesting targets.

例如：“有多少恒星周围有行星？””和“有多少适合居住的行星？天文学家和其他人都感兴趣。为了回答这些问题，我们需要找到可以详细研究的行星，寻求了解行星形成和太阳系演化的过程。在天文学家发现的200颗围绕其他恒星运行的行星中，我们对那些在其星星前面过境的行星了解得最多。我们可以测量它们有多大，有多重，从而推断出它们的密度和组成。通过观察它们的大气层是如何吸收星星的光的我们可以发现它们的大气层的组成。WASP项目的目标是监测4000万颗最亮的恒星，寻找行星从它们前面经过时造成的光线的微小下降。我们将调查天空中相对接近地球的凌日行星，我们可以详细研究这些行星，使我们能够了解行星系统如何形成和演化。下一代太空任务，如哈勃望远镜的继任者詹姆斯韦伯太空望远镜，将优先研究其他恒星周围的行星。WASP项目将找到最好和最有趣的目标行星。

项目成果

WASP-31b: A low-density planet transiting a metal-poor, late-F-type dwarf star

• DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201016208
• 发表时间: 2010-11
• 期刊: Scopus
• 作者: D. Anderson;A. Cameron;C. Hellier;M. Lendl;T. Lister;P. Maxted;D. Queloz;B. Smalley;Alexis M. S. Smith;A. Triaud;R. West;David J. A. Brown;M. Gillon;F. Pepe;D. Pollacco;D. Ségransan;R. Street;S. Udry

The first WASP public data release

• DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201015655
• 发表时间: 2010-09-01
• 期刊: ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
• 影响因子: 6.5
• 作者: Butters, O. W.;West, R. G.;Wilson, D. M.
• 通讯作者: Wilson, D. M.

The masses and radii of HD 186753B and TYC7096-222-1B: the discovery of two M-dwarfs that eclipse A-type stars

HD 186753B和TYC7096-222-1B的质量和半径：发现两颗使A型恒星黯然失色的M型矮星

• DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913154
• 发表时间: 2009
• 期刊: Astronomy & Astrophysics
• 影响因子: 6.5
• 作者: Bentley S

Circular polarization survey of intermediate polars I. Northern targets in the range 17 h < RA < 23 h

中间极地圆偏振调查 I. 17 h < RA < 23 h 范围内的北方目标

• DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200811058
• 发表时间: 2009
• 期刊: Astronomy & Astrophysics
• 影响因子: 6.5
• 作者: Butters O

WASP-5b: a dense, very hot Jupiter transiting a 12th-mag Southern-hemisphere star

• DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3933.2008.00465.x
• 发表时间: 2008-01
• 期刊: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
• 作者: D. Anderson;M. Gillon;C. Hellier;P. Maxted;F. Pepe;D. Queloz;D. Wilson;A. Cameron;B. Smalley;T. Lister;T. Lister;S. Bentley;A. Blecha;D. Christian;B. Enoch;L. Hebb;K. Horne;J. Irwin;Y. Joshi;S. Kane;M. Marmier;M. Mayor;N. Parley;D. Pollacco;F. Pont;R. Ryans;D. Ségransan;I. Skillen;R. Street;R. Street;R. Street;S. Udry;R. West;P. Wheatley