Welcome to the SuperWASP public archive
UPDATE, Jan 2011: You can now search for multiple light curves at once on the new light curve query page!
The SuperWASP North cameras.
Welcome to the SuperWASP public archive! Here you will find the first public data release (DR1) from the SuperWASP project. This first dataset consists of all the images and light curves from 2004 to part way through 2008 for both the North and South observatories. As a rough guide to the data available have a look at the coverage summaries.
Folded light curve of WASP 1 from this data release. The transit is at phase 0. This system has an orbital period of 2.51997 days.
SuperWASP is a transiting extrasolar planet project based in the UK. It works by imaging large parts of the sky and creating light curves of every star to search for characteristics of an exo-planet transit. This means there are literally millions of light curves that contain interesting (non extrasolar planet) science that have never been looked at. To find out more about how the project works have a look at the main project webpage.
Examples of the non extrasolar planet science to come from the SuperWASP data include an asteroid light curve survey, the discovery of 360 new periodic variables coincident with ROSAT sources, the main-sequence rotation-colour relation in the Coma Berenices open cluster, new double-mode and other RR Lyrae stars from WASP Data, and NSV 07340, a new RR Lyrae variable with equidistant triplet of frequencies. For a list of all the science to come from SuperWASP have a look at the publications page.
This release has 119,931,251,442 data points in 17,970,999 unique light curves derived from 3,631,972 images. This takes up 5.9TB of disk space for the light curves, and over 20TB for the raw images. All of this is available to search and download! You can read more about the archive in the public archive paper.
So go ahead and search for light curves or images of your favourite objects!
