EPJ Web of Conferences 11, 01004 (2011)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20101101004

The WASP-South search for transiting exoplanets

¹ Astrophysics Group, Keele University, UK
² SUPA, Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, UK
³ Institut d’Astrophysique, Université de Liège, Belgium
⁴ Observatoire astronomique de l’Université de Genève, CH
⁵ Las Cumbres Observatory, Santa Barbara, USA
⁶ Astrophysics Research Centre, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK
⁷ Dept of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, UK

Abstract

Since 2006 WASP-South has been scanning the Southern sky for transiting exoplanets. Combined with Geneva Observatory radial velocities we have so far found over 30 transiting exoplanets around relatively bright stars of magnitude 9–13. We present a status report for this ongoing survey.