Peter Wheatley
I am a reader in the Astronomy & Astrophysics group in the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick.
Primary Research Interests:
I am a founder member of the Wide Angle Search for Planets project (WASP). Our wide field telescopes continuously scan millions of stars, searching for the tell-tail dip in brightness caused by a planet passing in front of its parent star. WASP has now discovered tens of transiting exoplanets, making it the most successful project searching for such objects. Our early discoveries were rated among the top ten scientific discoveries of 2007 by TIME magazine. The WASP team received the group achievement award of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2010. I was interviewed on BBC local radio about our discovery of the first carbon-rich exoplanet.
I also lead a programme of X-ray observations of interacting binary stars, including observations with NASA's Chandra and ESA's XMM-Newton spacecraft. You can check out the science highlights of my X-ray progamme on NASA's HEASARC picture of the week, the Chandra Chronicles, the sixth item on NASA's RXTE "Snazzy Science" page, and the EUVE Science Highlights.
Publications via ADS
Selected publications:
The thermal emission of the exoplanets WASP-1b and WASP-2b
Wheatley et al. 2010, ApJ submitted
High C/O Ratio and Weak Thermal Inversion in the Very Hot Atmosphere of Exoplanet WASP-12b
Madhusudhan et al. 2010, Nature, in press
Spin-orbit angle measurements for six southern transiting planets. New insights into the dynamical origins of hot Jupiters
Triaud et al. 2010, A&A 524, 25
X-ray observations of SU UMa throughout six outbursts
David J. Collins & Peter J. Wheatley 2010, MNRAS 402, 1816
Evidence for a lost population of close-in exoplanets
Timothy A. Davis & Peter J. Wheatley 2009, MNRAS 396, 1012
A method for the direct determination of the surface gravities of transiting extrasolar planets
John Southworth, Peter J. Wheatley & Giles Sams 2007, MNRAS, 379, 11
New periodic variable stars coincident with ROSAT sources discovered using SuperWASP
A.J. Norton, P.J. Wheatley, R.G. West, C.A. Haswell, R.A. Street, A. Collier Cameron, D.J. Christian, B. Enoch, M. Gallaway, C. Hellier, K. Horne, J. Irwin, S.R. Kane, T.A. Lister, J.P. Nicholas, N. Parley, D. Pollacco, R. Ryans, I. Skillen, D.M. Wilson 2007, A&A, 467, 785
WASP-1b and WASP-2b: Two new transiting exoplanets detected with SuperWASP and SOPHIE
A. Collier Cameron, F. Bouchy, G. Hebrard, P. Maxted, D. Pollacco, F. Pont, I. Skillen, B. Smalley, R. A. Street, R.G. West, D.M. Wilson, S. Aigrain, D.J. Christian, W.I. Clarkson, B. Enoch, A. Evans, A. Fitzsimmons, M. Gillon, C.A. Haswell, L. Hebb, C. Hellier, S.T. Hodgkin, K. Horne, J. Irwin, S.R. Kane, F.P. Keenan, B. Loeillet, T.A. Lister, M. Mayor, C. Moutou, A.J. Norton, J. Osborne, N. Parley, D. Queloz, R. Ryans, A.H.M.J. Triaud, S. Udry, P.J. Wheatley 2006, MNRAS 375, 951.
The WASP Project and the SuperWASP Cameras
D.L. Pollacco, I. Skillen, A. Collier Cameron, D.J. Christian, C. Hellier, J. Irwin, T.A. Lister, R.A. Street, R.G West, D. Anderson, W.I. Clarkson, H. Deeg, B. Enoch, A. Evans, A. Fitzsimmons, C.A. Haswell, S. Hodgkin, K. Horne, S.R. Kane, F.P. Keenan, P.F.L. Maxted, A.J. Norton, J. Osborne, N.R.Parley, R.S.I. Ryans, B. Smalley, P.J. Wheatley & D.M. Wilson 2006, PASP 118, 1407.
The genome of the T4-type bacteriophage S-PM2 that infects the oceanic picoplankton Synechococcus
Mann, Clokie, Millard, Cook, Wilson, Wheatley, Letarov & Kirsch 2005. Journal of Bacteriology 187, 3188.
The complete set of ASCA X-ray observations of non-magnetic cataclysmic variables
Baskill, Wheatley & Osborne 2005, MNRAS 357, 626
The X-ray and extreme-ultraviolet flux evolution of SS Cygni throughout outburst
Wheatley, Mauche and Mattei 2003, MNRAS 345, 49
All publications via ADS
Write to:
Dr P.J. Wheatley,Department of Physics,
University of Warwick,
Coventry CV4 7AL
UK
Contact Details:
Office: PS009Tel: +44 (0)247 657 4330
Fax: +44 (0)247 669 2016
E-Mail:
p.j.wheatley(at)warwick.ac.uk
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