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Barry Smalley's Outputs (21)

WASP-94 A and B planets: hot-Jupiter cousins in a twin-star system (2014)
Journal Article
Neveu-VanMalle, M., Queloz, D., Anderson, D., Charbonnel, C., Collier Cameron, A., Delrez, L., …West, R. (2014). WASP-94 A and B planets: hot-Jupiter cousins in a twin-star system. Astronomy & Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424744

We report the discovery of two hot-Jupiter planets, each orbiting one of the stars of a wide binary system. WASP-94A (2MASS 20550794–3408079) is an F8 type star hosting a transiting planet with a radius of 1.72 ± 0.06 RJup, a mass of 0.452 ± 0.034 MJ... Read More about WASP-94 A and B planets: hot-Jupiter cousins in a twin-star system.

Determining stellar macroturbulence using asteroseismic rotational velocities from Kepler (2014)
Journal Article
Smalley. (2014). Determining stellar macroturbulence using asteroseismic rotational velocities from Kepler. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 3592 -3602. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1692

The Rossiter–McLaughlin effect observed for transiting exoplanets often requires prior knowledge of the stellar projected equatorial rotational velocity (v?sin?i). This is usually provided by measuring the broadening of spectral lines, however this m... Read More about Determining stellar macroturbulence using asteroseismic rotational velocities from Kepler.

Three WASP-South transiting exoplanets: WASP-74b, WASP-83b & WASP-89b (2014)
Journal Article
Hellier, C., Anderson, D., Collier Cameron, A., Delrez, L., Gillon, M., Jehin, E., …West, R. (2014). Three WASP-South transiting exoplanets: WASP-74b, WASP-83b & WASP-89b. Astronomical Journal, 150(1), Article 18. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/150/1/18

We report the discovery of three new transiting hot Jupiters by WASP-South together with the TRAPPIST photometer and the Euler/CORALIE spectrograph. WASP-74b orbits a star of V = 9.7, making it one of the brighter systems accessible to Southern teles... Read More about Three WASP-South transiting exoplanets: WASP-74b, WASP-83b & WASP-89b.

WASP-104b and WASP-106b: two transiting hot Jupiters in 1.75-day and 9.3-day orbits (2014)
Journal Article
Smalley, & Maxted. (2014). WASP-104b and WASP-106b: two transiting hot Jupiters in 1.75-day and 9.3-day orbits. Astronomy & Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424752

We have used the WASP survey to discover two exoplanetary systems, each consisting of a Jupiter-sized planet transiting an 11th-magnitude (V) main-sequence star. WASP-104b orbits its star in 1.75 d, whereas WASP-106b has the fourth-longest orbital pe... Read More about WASP-104b and WASP-106b: two transiting hot Jupiters in 1.75-day and 9.3-day orbits.

Six newly-discovered hot Jupiters transiting F/G stars: WASP-87b, WASP-108b, WASP-109b, WASP-110b, WASP-111b & WASP-112b (2014)
Journal Article
Anderson, D., Brown, D., Collier Cameron, A., Delrez, L., Fumel, A., Gillon, M., …West, R. (2014). Six newly-discovered hot Jupiters transiting F/G stars: WASP-87b, WASP-108b, WASP-109b, WASP-110b, WASP-111b & WASP-112b. arXiv,

We present the discoveries of six transiting hot Jupiters: WASP-87b, WASP-108b, WASP-109b, WASP-110b, WASP-111b and WASP-112b. The planets have masses of 0.51--2.2 MJup and radii of 1.19--1.44 RJup and are in orbits of 1.68--3.78 d around stars with... Read More about Six newly-discovered hot Jupiters transiting F/G stars: WASP-87b, WASP-108b, WASP-109b, WASP-110b, WASP-111b & WASP-112b.

Three newly discovered sub-Jupiter-mass planets: WASP-69b and WASP-84b transit active K dwarfs and WASP-70Ab transits the evolved primary of a G4+K3 binary (2014)
Journal Article
Anderson, D., Collier Cameron, A., Delrez, L., Doyle, A., Faedi, F., Fumel, A., …West, R. (2014). Three newly discovered sub-Jupiter-mass planets: WASP-69b and WASP-84b transit active K dwarfs and WASP-70Ab transits the evolved primary of a G4+K3 binary. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 445(2), 1114 -1129. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1737

We report the discovery of the transiting exoplanets WASP-69b, WASP-70Ab and WASP-84b, each of which orbits a bright star (V ~ 10). WASP-69b is a bloated Saturn-mass planet (0.26 MJup, 1.06 RJup) in a 3.868-d period around an active, ~1-Gyr, mid-K dw... Read More about Three newly discovered sub-Jupiter-mass planets: WASP-69b and WASP-84b transit active K dwarfs and WASP-70Ab transits the evolved primary of a G4+K3 binary.

WASP-117b: a 10-day-period Saturn in an eccentric and misaligned orbit (2014)
Journal Article
Hellier, Smalley, & Maxted. (2014). WASP-117b: a 10-day-period Saturn in an eccentric and misaligned orbit. Astronomy & Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424481

We report the discovery of WASP-117b, the first planet with a period beyond 10 days found by the WASP survey. The planet has a mass of Mp = 0.2755 ± 0.0089 MJ, a radius of and is in an eccentric (e = 0.302 ± 0.023), 10.02165 ± 0.00055 d orbit around... Read More about WASP-117b: a 10-day-period Saturn in an eccentric and misaligned orbit.

Colour-magnitude diagrams of transiting Exoplanets - II. A larger sample from photometric distances (2014)
Journal Article
Triaud, A. H., Lanotte, A. A., Smalley, B., & Gillon, M. (2014). Colour-magnitude diagrams of transiting Exoplanets - II. A larger sample from photometric distances. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 444(1), 711 -728. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1416

Colour–magnitude diagrams form a traditional way of presenting luminous objects in the Universe and compare them to each other. Here, we estimate the photometric distance of 44 transiting exoplanetary systems. Parallaxes for seven systems confirm our... Read More about Colour-magnitude diagrams of transiting Exoplanets - II. A larger sample from photometric distances.

KIC 7582608: a new Kepler roAp star with frequency variability (2014)
Journal Article
Holdsworth, D. L., Smalley, B., Kurtz, D. W., Southworth, J., Cunha, M. S., & Clubb, K. I. (2014). KIC 7582608: a new Kepler roAp star with frequency variability. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 443(3), 2049 - 2062. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1303

We analyse the fifth rapidly oscillating Ap (roAp) star reported in the Kepler field, KIC 7582608, discovered with the SuperWASP (Wide Angle Search for Planets) project. The object shows a high-frequency pulsation at 181.7324 d-1 (P = 7.9 min) with a... Read More about KIC 7582608: a new Kepler roAp star with frequency variability.

KIC 7582608: a new Kepler roAp star with frequency variability (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Holdsworth, D., Smalley, B., Kurtz, D., Southworth, J., Cunha, M., & Clubb, K. (2014, July). KIC 7582608: a new Kepler roAp star with frequency variability. Poster presented at The Space Photometry Revolution – CoRoT Symposium 3, Kepler KASC-7 Joint Meeting, Toulouse, France

We analyse the fifth roAp star reported in the Kepler field, KIC 7582608, discovered with the SuperWASP project. The object shows a high frequency pulsation at 181.7324d-1 (P = 7.9 min) with an amplitude of 1.45 mmag, and low frequency rotational mod... Read More about KIC 7582608: a new Kepler roAp star with frequency variability.

Period and amplitude variations in post-common-envelope eclipsing binaries observed with SuperWASP (2014)
Journal Article
Smalley, Hellier, C., & Maxted, P. (2014). Period and amplitude variations in post-common-envelope eclipsing binaries observed with SuperWASP. Astronomy & Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424027

Period or amplitude variations in eclipsing binaries may reveal the presence of additional massive bodies in the system, such as circumbinary planets. Here, we have studied twelve previously-known eclipsing post-common-envelope binaries for evidence... Read More about Period and amplitude variations in post-common-envelope eclipsing binaries observed with SuperWASP.

A window on exoplanet dynamical histories: Rossiter-McLaughlin observations of WASP-13b and WASP-32b (2014)
Journal Article
Smalley, Maxted, & Hellier. (2014). A window on exoplanet dynamical histories: Rossiter-McLaughlin observations of WASP-13b and WASP-32b. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 3392 -3401. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu520

We present Rossiter–McLaughlin observations of WASP-13b and WASP-32b and determine the sky-projected angle between the normal of the planetary orbit and the stellar rotation axis (?). WASP-13b and WASP-32b both have prograde orbits and are consistent... Read More about A window on exoplanet dynamical histories: Rossiter-McLaughlin observations of WASP-13b and WASP-32b.

HD 54272, a classical lambda Bootis star and gamma Doradus pulsator (2014)
Journal Article
Smalley. (2014). HD 54272, a classical lambda Bootis star and gamma Doradus pulsator. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1020 -1026. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu415

We detect the second known ? Bootis star (HD 54272) which exhibits ? Doradus-type pulsations. The star was formerly misidentified as a RR Lyrae variable. The ? Bootis stars are a small group (only 2?per?cent) of late B to early F-type, Population I s... Read More about HD 54272, a classical lambda Bootis star and gamma Doradus pulsator.

Eclipsing Am binary systems in the SuperWASP survey (2014)
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Smalley, B., Southworth, J., I. Pintado, O., Gillon, M., L. Holdsworth, D., R. Anderson, D., …J. Wheatley, P. (2014). Eclipsing Am binary systems in the SuperWASP survey. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 564, Article A69. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201323158

The results of a search for eclipsing Am star binaries using photometry from the SuperWASP survey are presented. The light curves of 1742 Am stars fainter than V = 8.0 were analysed for the presence of eclipses. A total of 70 stars were found to exhi... Read More about Eclipsing Am binary systems in the SuperWASP survey.

Transiting hot Jupiters from WASP-South, Euler and TRAPPIST: WASP-95b to WASP-101b (2014)
Journal Article
Hellier, C., Anderson, D., Collier Cameron, A., Delrez, L., Gillon, M., Jehin, E., …West, R. (2014). Transiting hot Jupiters from WASP-South, Euler and TRAPPIST: WASP-95b to WASP-101b. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 440(3), 1982 -1992. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu410

We report the discovery of the transiting exoplanets WASP-95b, WASP-96b, WASP-97b, WASP-98b, WASP-99b, WASP-100b and WASP-101b. All are hot Jupiters with orbital periods in the range 2.1–5.7 d, masses of 0.5–2.8 MJup and radii of 1.1–1.4 RJup. The or... Read More about Transiting hot Jupiters from WASP-South, Euler and TRAPPIST: WASP-95b to WASP-101b.

Transiting planets from WASP-South, Euler, and TRAPPIST WASP-68 b, WASP-73 b, and WASP-88 b, three hot Jupiters transiting evolved solar-type stars (2014)
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Delrez, L., Van Grootel, V., Anderson, D., Collier-Cameron, A., Doyle, A., Fumel, A., …West, R. (2014). Transiting planets from WASP-South, Euler, and TRAPPIST WASP-68 b, WASP-73 b, and WASP-88 b, three hot Jupiters transiting evolved solar-type stars. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 563, Article A143. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201323204

Using the WASP transit survey, we report the discovery of three new hot Jupiters, WASP-68 b, WASP-73 b and WASP-88 b. The planet WASP-68 bhas a mass of 0.95 ± 0.03 MJup, a radius of 1.24-0.06+0.10 RJup, and orbits a V = 10.7 G0-type star (1.24 ± 0.0... Read More about Transiting planets from WASP-South, Euler, and TRAPPIST WASP-68 b, WASP-73 b, and WASP-88 b, three hot Jupiters transiting evolved solar-type stars.

Rapidly varying A-type stars in the SuperWASP archive (2014)
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Smalley. (2014). Rapidly varying A-type stars in the SuperWASP archive. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 423- 424. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743921313014865

The searches for transiting exoplanets have produced a vast amount of time-resolved photometric data of many millions of stars. One of the leading ground-based surveys is the SuperWASP project. We present the initial results of a survey of over 1.5 m... Read More about Rapidly varying A-type stars in the SuperWASP archive.

High-frequency A-type pulsators discovered using SuperWASP(star)dagger (2014)
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Holdsworth, D. L., Smalley, B., Gillon, M., Clubb, K. I., Southworth, J., Maxted, P. F. L., …Wheatley, P. J. (2014). High-frequency A-type pulsators discovered using SuperWASP(star)dagger. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 439(2), 2078 - 2095. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu094

We present the results of a survey using the WASP archive to search for high-frequency pulsations in F-, A- and B-type stars. Over 1.5 million targets have been searched for pulsations with amplitudes greater than 0.5 millimagnitude. We identify over... Read More about High-frequency A-type pulsators discovered using SuperWASP(star)dagger.

Normal A0-A1 stars with low v sin i (2014)
Journal Article
Smalley. (2014). Normal A0-A1 stars with low v sin i. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 265 - 269. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322762

Context. The study of rotational velocity distributions for normal stars requires an accurate spectral characterization of the objects in order to avoid polluting the results with undetected binary or peculiar stars. This piece of information is a ke... Read More about Normal A0-A1 stars with low v sin i.

Normal A0-A1 stars with low rotational velocities I. Abundance determination and classification (2014)
Journal Article
Smalley. (2014). Normal A0-A1 stars with low rotational velocities I. Abundance determination and classification. Astronomy & Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322762

Context. The study of rotational velocity distributions for normal stars requires an accurate spectral characterization of the objects in order to avoid polluting the results with undetected binary or peculiar stars. This piece of information is a ke... Read More about Normal A0-A1 stars with low rotational velocities I. Abundance determination and classification.