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VITAL STATISTICS OF A TRANSIT SEARCH PROGRAMME
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Programme:	The University of New South Wales Extrasolar Planet Search
URL:		http://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/astro/research/planetsearch.html
Institution(s):	University of New South Wales, Australia,
		IoA, Cambridge, UK
Leaders(s):	John Webb (UNSW),
		Michael Ashley (UNSW),
		Marton Hidas (UNSW)
Contact:	Marton Hidas  <mgh@phys.unsw.edu.au>
Collaborators:	Mike Irwin (IoA),
		Suzanne Aigrain (IoA),
		Hiroyuki Toyozumi (UNSW),
		Andre Phillips (UNSW),
		Stephen Crothers (UNSW),
		Jessie Christiansen (UNSW),
		Aliz Derekas (UNSW)

Aperture:	0.5 m
Focal Ratio:	F/1
Focal Length:	0.5 m
Field of view:	2x3 degrees (current CCD)
		~5 degree diameter (new CCD)

* Current camera:
Number of CCDs:	1
CCD type:	EEV
pixel format:	770x1150
pixel size:	9.4 arcsec

* New camera (to be completed by end 2005):
Number of CCDs:	2
CCD type:	MITLL
pixel format:	3k x 6k
pixel size:	4.2 arcsec

Site:		Siding Spring Observatory, NSW, Australia
Field(s):	2002--2004: 8 fields near Galactic plane,
		currently: 2 new pairs of fields at |b| ~ 15--25

Status and Plans:

In 2004 we followed up our first set of candidates (from 2002--2004 V-band
data on one field) and found them to be binaries (see the paper below for
details).

Since Nov 2004 we are observing in I-band with more frequent sampling.
We are now analysing the first of the resulting data (2 fields) to select
candidates for a follow-up run in February.


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References or comments:

Hidas et al. 2005,  "The UNSW Extrasolar Planet Search: Methods and First
Results from a Field Centred on NGC 6633", submitted to MNRAS
(Astro-ph/0501269)

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Updated: 2005.01.17