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Peter J. Wheatley
Researcher at University of Warwick
Publications - 430
Citations - 22242
Peter J. Wheatley is an academic researcher from University of Warwick. The author has contributed to research in topics: Planet & Exoplanet. The author has an hindex of 71, co-authored 396 publications receiving 19638 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter J. Wheatley include Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network & Astronomical Institute.
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The WASP project and the superWASP cameras
Don Pollacco,Ian Skillen,A. Collier Cameron,Damian J. Christian,Coel Hellier,Jonathan Irwin,T. A. Lister,Rachel Street,Richard G. West,David R. Anderson,Will Clarkson,Hans J. Deeg,B. Enoch,A. Evans,Alan Fitzsimmons,Carole A. Haswell,Simon Hodgkin,Keith Horne,Stephen R. Kane,Francis P. Keenan,Pierre F. L. Maxted,Andrew Norton,J. P. Osborne,N. R. Parley,Robert Ryans,Barry Smalley,Peter J. Wheatley,D. M. Wilson +27 more
TL;DR: The SuperWASP cameras at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, and at the Sutherland Station of the South African Astronomical Observatory have a field of view of some 482 deg2 with an angular scale of 13 as mentioned in this paper.
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The PLATO 2.0 Mission
Heike Rauer,C. Catala,Conny Aerts,T. Appourchaux,Willy Benz,Alexis Brandeker,Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard,Magali Deleuil,Laurent Gizon,M. J. Goupil,Manuel Güdel,Eduardo Janot-Pacheco,M. Mas-Hesse,I. Pagano,Giampaolo Piotto,Don Pollacco,Nuno C. Santos,Amanda J. Smith,Suárez,Róbert Szabó,Stéphane Udry,V. Adibekyan,Yann Alibert,J. M. Almenara,Pau Amaro-Seoane,M. Ammler-von Eiff,Martin Asplund,Elio Antonello,Warrick H. Ball,Sydney A. Barnes,F. Baudin,Kevin Belkacem,Maria Bergemann,G. Bihain,Aaron C. Birch,Xavier Bonfils,Isabelle Boisse,Aldo S. Bonomo,Francesco Borsa,I. M. Brandão,Enzo Brocato,S. Brun,Matthew R. Burleigh,R. Burston,Juan Cabrera,Santi Cassisi,William J. Chaplin,Stéphane Charpinet,Cristina Chiappini,Ross P. Church,Sz. Csizmadia,Margarida S. Cunha,Mario Damasso,Melvyn B. Davies,Hans J. Deeg,Rodrigo F. Díaz,S. Dreizler,C. Dreyer,P. Eggenberger,David Ehrenreich,Philipp Eigmüller,Anders Erikson,Robert Farmer,Sofia Feltzing,F. De Oliveira Fialho,P. Figueira,T. Forveille,M. Fridlund,Rafael A. García,Paolo Giommi,G. Giuffrida,M Godolt,J. Gomes da Silva,T. Granzer,John Lee Grenfell,A. Grotsch-Noels,E. Günther,Carole A. Haswell,A. P. Hatzes,G. Hebrard,Saskia Hekker,Ravit Helled,Kevin Heng,Jon M. Jenkins,Anders Johansen,Maxim L. Khodachenko,Kristina G. Kislyakova,Wilhelm Kley,Ulrich Kolb,Natalie A. Krivova,Friedrich Kupka,Helmut Lammer,Antonino F. Lanza,Yveline Lebreton,Demetrio Magrin,P. Marcos-Arenal,P. M. Marrese,J. P. Marques,J. H. C. Martins,Stéphane Mathis,Savita Mathur,S. Messina,Andrea Miglio,Josefina Montalbán,M. Montalto,Mário J. P. F. G. Monteiro,Hamed Moradi,Ehsan Moravveji,Christoph Mordasini,Thierry Morel,Annelies Mortier,Valerio Nascimbeni,Richard P. Nelson,Martin Bo Nielsen,Lena Noack,Andrew Norton,Aviv Ofir,Mahmoudreza Oshagh,R. M. Ouazzani,Péter Pápics,V. C. Parro,Pascal Petit,Bertrand Plez,E. Poretti,A. Quirrenbach,Roberto Ragazzoni,Gabriella Raimondo,Monica Rainer,Daniel R. Reese,Ronald Redmer,Sabine Reffert,Bárbara Rojas-Ayala,Ian W. Roxburgh,S. Salmon,Alexandre Santerne,Jean Schneider,Jesper Schou,Sonja Schuh,Hannah Schunker,A. Silva-Valio,Roberto Silvotti,I. Skillen,Ignas Snellen,Frank Sohl,S. G. Sousa,Alessandro Sozzetti,Dennis Stello,Klaus G. Strassmeier,Michal Švanda,Gy. M. Szabó,Andrew Tkachenko,Diana Valencia,Valérie Van Grootel,Sylvie Vauclair,Paolo Ventura,F. W. Wagner,N. A. Walton,J. Weingrill,Stephanie C. Werner,Peter J. Wheatley,Konstanze Zwintz +160 more
TL;DR: The PLATO 2.0 instrument consists of 34 small aperture telescopes (32 with 25 sec readout cadence and 2 with 2.5 sec candence) providing a wide field-of-view (2232 deg2) and a large photometric magnitude range (4-16 mag) as discussed by the authors.
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The PLATO 2.0 mission
Heike Rauer,Heike Rauer,C. Catala,Conny Aerts,Thierry Appourchaux,Willy Benz,Alexis Brandeker,Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard,Magali Deleuil,Laurent Gizon,Laurent Gizon,M. J. Goupil,Manuel Güdel,Eduardo Janot-Pacheco,M. Mas-Hesse,Isabella Pagano,Giampaolo Piotto,Don Pollacco,Ċ. Santos,Andrew Smith,Juan Carlos Suárez,Róbert Szabó,Stéphane Udry,V. Adibekyan,Yann Alibert,J. M. Almenara,Pau Amaro-Seoane,M. Ammler-von Eiff,Martin Asplund,E. Antonello,Sydney A. Barnes,Frédéric Baudin,K. Belkacem,Maria Bergemann,G. Bihain,Aaron C. Birch,Xavier Bonfils,Isabelle Boisse,Aldo S. Bonomo,Francesco Borsa,I. M. Brandão,Enzo Brocato,S. Brun,Matthew R. Burleigh,R. Burston,Juan Cabrera,Santi Cassisi,William J. Chaplin,Stéphane Charpinet,Cristina Chiappini,Ross P. Church,Sz. Csizmadia,Margarida S. Cunha,Mario Damasso,Mario Damasso,Melvyn B. Davies,Hans J. Deeg,Rodrigo F. Díaz,Stefan Dreizler,C. Dreyer,C. Dreyer,P. Eggenberger,David Ehrenreich,Philipp Eigmüller,Anders Erikson,Robert Farmer,Sofia Feltzing,F. De Oliveira Fialho,Pedro Figueira,T. Forveille,Malcolm Fridlund,Rafael A. García,Paolo Giommi,G. Giuffrida,G. Giuffrida,M. Godolt,J. Gomes da Silva,T. Granzer,John Lee Grenfell,A. Grotsch-Noels,E. Günther,Carole A. Haswell,A. P. Hatzes,Guillaume Hébrard,Saskia Hekker,Saskia Hekker,Ravit Helled,Kevin Heng,Jon M. Jenkins,Anders Johansen,Maxim L. Khodachenko,Kristina G. Kislyakova,Wilhelm Kley,Ulrich Kolb,Natalie A. Krivova,Friedrich Kupka,Helmut Lammer,Antonino F. Lanza,Yveline Lebreton,Demetrio Magrin,P. Marcos-Arenal,P. M. Marrese,P. M. Marrese,J. P. Marques,J. H. C. Martins,S. Mathis,Savita Mathur,S. Messina,Andrea Miglio,Josefina Montalbán,M. Montalto,Mário J. P. F. G. Monteiro,Hamed Moradi,Ehsan Moravveji,Christoph Mordasini,Thierry Morel,Annelies Mortier,Valerio Nascimbeni,Richard P. Nelson,Martin Bo Nielsen,Lena Noack,Andrew Norton,Aviv Ofir,Mahmoudreza Oshagh,R.-M. Ouazzani,Péter Pápics,V. C. Parro,Pascal Petit,Bertrand Plez,Ennio Poretti,Andreas Quirrenbach,Roberto Ragazzoni,Giuliano Raimondo,Monica Rainer,Daniel R. Reese,Ronald Redmer,Sabine Reffert,Bárbara Rojas-Ayala,Ian W. Roxburgh,Stéphanie Salmon,Alexandre Santerne,Jean Schneider,Jesper Schou,Sonja Schuh,Hannah Schunker,A. Silva-Valio,Roberto Silvotti,I. Skillen,Ignas Snellen,Frank Sohl,S. G. Sousa,Alessandro Sozzetti,Dennis Stello,Klaus G. Strassmeier,Michal Švanda,Gy. M. Szabó,Gy. M. Szabó,Andrew Tkachenko,Diana Valencia,Valérie Van Grootel,Sylvie Vauclair,Paolo Ventura,F. W. Wagner,N. A. Walton,Joerg Weingrill,Stephanie C. Werner,Peter J. Wheatley,Konstanze Zwintz +167 more
TL;DR: The PLATO 2.0 mission as discussed by the authors has been selected for ESA's M3 launch opportunity (2022/24) to provide accurate key planet parameters (radius, mass, density and age) in statistical numbers.
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Spin-orbit angle measurements for six southern transiting planets New insights into the dynamical origins of hot Jupiters
Amaury H. M. J. Triaud,A. Collier Cameron,Didier Queloz,David R. Anderson,Michaël Gillon,Leslie Hebb,Coel Hellier,B. Loeillet,Pierre F. L. Maxted,Michel Mayor,Francesco Pepe,Don Pollacco,Damien Ségransan,Barry Smalley,Stéphane Udry,Richard G. West,Peter J. Wheatley +16 more
TL;DR: The goal is to measure the degree of alignment between planetary orbits and stellar spin axes, to search for potential correlations with eccentricity or other planetary parameters and to measure long term radial velocity variability indicating the presence of other bodies in the system.
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Spin-orbit angle measurements for six southern transiting planets; New insights into the dynamical origins of hot Jupiters
Amaury H. M. J. Triaud,Andrew Collier Cameron,Didier Queloz,David R. Anderson,Michaël Gillon,Leslie Hebb,Coel Hellier,Benoît Loeillet,Pierre F. L. Maxted,Michel Mayor,Francesco Pepe,Don Pollacco,Damien Ségransan,Barry Smalley,Stéphane Udry,Richard G. West,Peter J. Wheatley +16 more
TL;DR: For transiting hot Jupiters, the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect allows the measurement of the sky-projected angle beta between the stellar rotation axis and a planet's orbital axis as discussed by the authors.